Has you or your Child Been Hospitalized?

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Have you rushed your baby or child or yourself when you were younger to the ER with bacterial meningitis, an asthma attack, or a choking episode or accidents?


I remember when Markus was the age of 4 he had an accident in the kitchen he was trying to climb up on the counter and get a peanut butter but he fell back and hit his head to the corner edge of the wall and he was bleeding I was in the living room feeding Jordan with a bottle, and he came in and cried and screamed and I said what? what happen? then I saw his head was bleeding I panic and called 911 and Markus was rushed to the hospital and had stitches. My poor baby.. :(
 
Yeah, I remember the horrific moment that I had.. I thankful and grateful up above.. hovered my 4th child- daughter.. she was almost 2 .. she still use "bottle"... she asked me to fill milk.. When i turn back on her to get milk from refridgator... when I turned around.. all sudden she was on floor with blue face.. I noticed the nipple ring on floor without nipple.. I knew right away that she choked on it.. I tried to retreived her.. but I made wrose that the nipple was down farther.. my oldest daughter called 911.. the last thing I remembered her lifeless body went lump.. the EMT came in and tried to retrieved and got the nipple out by long nose prong (sp?).. and rushed to hospital.. the police (chaplin) took me to ER.. keep update on the cb radio.. said they couldnt bring her life back yet.. I was scared and devesated.. till we got in the ER.. I ran and said where is she? they pointed to the room.. with nurses/Dr and emts lit up the room with smiles.. I went in and saw her sitting up .. she saw me and her eyes lit up and said MOM!!! put her arms out.. I broke down and fainted.. for few min.. ... they woke me up.. I said.. is she really alive? they said yes.. i held her so long time and keep saying i am sorry.. sorry.. they kept overnight observe to make sure her throat didnt swollen from retrieved.. it was SO scary.. I thought I lost her.. her lifeless body went out for 8 minutes.. I wasn't myself at that time for that 10 mintues.. I went panic and scared.. I never felt that before.. so I know what it is like when you lose a child or baby...
(after that happen we came back home, she wanted threw away the bottles, I was plan on that too.. ) after that now she is 10 years old, she didnt remembered.. whew.
 
OMG! MsGiglz, that is one close call for sure.. :-o I am glad she made it through that would have been really scary for you, because I know it would for me too if that happened to one of my boys. :hug:
 
Oh wow, :-o that's must be scary thing to go thru ! MsGiglz...

When my first child was one years old, he wasn't feeling any good at all, we took him in to the ER during his birthday party, and found out he had an asthma attack, so they put him on the breathing treatment, and we were stuck in the hospital all night long ...My second son went thru the same thing too, but he almost died, but we're grateful that they both made it thru, and now they both out grown it! :mrgreen: ...
 
Yes. I have been rushed to the hospital before. Multiple times, actually.

A lot of my hospitalizations were the result of my birth defect. The shunt that I have would get an obstruction, and I'd have to be taken to the hospital for emergency surgery. I also had bacterial meningitis when I was a baby and so and so forth. Lets just say I'm all too familiar with the hospital environment. It sort of became my "home away from home" when I was little.
 
me too have been taken to the hospital multiple times when i was a child ugh (childhood epilespy)
 
My son Sean had broken leg, I rush him to Hospital. He had cast! on Nov 1, 1998 (still remember the date) man... then 5 years later!

then Halloween 2003, His doctor called us to come in the office to talk to me about his cat scan, My heart gave me a Warm feeling that made me knowing there was something wrong, Ok I will "prepare" I was pregnant with Everett.. So we got to the office, I sat down in waiting room, the nurse came out say "lets go wendy" In my head said *what's going on, no one is that quick!*.. Okay, Here we go, I get up and followed her to the exam room upstair, then I was ready to sit but Saw the Dr walked in. my heart became more beating thicker and thicker, I had to remind myself calm down, prepapre, Please don't tell me the bad news. she said "Wendy, let's sit down, Sean you have to listen to this, this is very important for you to understand too okay ?" Sean shook his brain and then Dr looked at me "The Radiologist found a tumor in Sean's head, And I spoke to few doctors, My recommendation is for you to take Sean to Children's hospital in Boston and Meet Dr Proctor who will do this surgery on sean okay?" I said "Okay, I will take him there" of course I was froze a bit but at Same time I FELT SO RELIEF! Why ? because They finally FIND OUT what was wrong with him.. It took us almost 2 months to figure out why he was having constantly headaches!

Every child I take them to ER yes I do worry but I know I have a great doctors in my hands with my children so I can relax :)

Wendy
 
I did....

My dad was building a dog house. I stepped on a rusty nail. And the nail
stabbed through my middle foot. So my dad picked me up and
took me to the hospital.... and the doctor bandaged my foot up
and gave me tetanus shot. I was maybe around 9. I guess I know
how Jesus felt when a nail went through his foot.

Then when I was 12, a door slammed on my finger. And the meat
was hanging from the skin....
And I bled a lot and dripping blood in the hallway. And the School Principal
called my mom to come and take me to the hospital.
 
2 -- rushed to hospital... first one is when i was abt 6 years old.... well I was standing on the rocking chair and holding on closet with a window and peek, it has no hinges ( the lock to hold the closet) -- waving at my grandpa who was in that room, all of suddenly the closet fell on me and hit me hard onto the floor, oh man. it was very painful experience... mostly my head and my eye... I had a lot of bleeding on my eye rushed to get stitches/surgery ( i dont remember exactly what)

other one was CAR accident... i got hit by the windowsheild and it was all cracked and thought i had a broken nose... but i didn't but had bad bad headache and alllll shook up for long time so they gave me oxygen gee...
 
I hate those memories.

When we went to wedding, we leave our 18 months old son with my sister. They were having a birthday party for my neice. We came back from the wedding to pick our boy, my sister informed us that our son had a little accident earlier day. He was coughing non-stop since then. He was eating chex mix and somehow he fell backward. He got choked and my sister pat his back. He was okay but could not stop cough. Two days later we had to take him to dr cuz he won't stop coughing. Took x-ray and found nothing wrong with him so the dr send him home. Next day dr called us to bring him to er to have his lung x-ray this time with movement. The dr informed that my son's left lung was closed to collapsed cuz there was some kind of object in his between airway to lung and they rushed him to surgery and removed pieces of peanut. He spend night over at the hospital.

I was pregnant with second child and got this stomach flu thank to my oldest child whom was sick few days before I got this. Few hours later I gave birth to my second child. When we brought him home from hospital, he seems not want to drink milk. He was sleep all the time and had to wake him up to feed him but he was not hungry. We took him to er room one week later cuz he had a fever of 101. He stayed at the hospital for 5 days cuz he was newborn and they were afraid he was too young to fight this stomach bug.

I do not remember myself being sick with this bacterial menginitis and spend one month in hospital. I was lucky to be alive cuz other kids who got it same time as I got it, they did not made it.
 
Oh my dear, Msgiglz. I can image it´s scary condition. :-o

I as 2 years old was hitted by light blue van (I remember that color) when I was on the road. few ribs fractured and operation to mend fracture ribs but they didnt notice that my spleen was light damaged.

Few years later after road accident I was suffer illness (infection on my tongue, face and body), also spleen infection, too. I will ask my Dad which exactly name I got skin infection. I collapsed and rush to hospital and found out that spleen is bad so they removed my spleen.

I went with rollerstakes fast without notice that broke glasses on the street. I slipped and fall down. Broke glass hitted between left thumb and first finger. The neighbor saw and emergenced the hospitail. They stitches it together.

I was hospitalized few times due bones fractured. First I slipped down and fall down from stairs when I was 9 years old and have right wrist fracture.

Few years later again bone fracture on my elbow through bicycle accident on one year after move to live in Germany.

Again bone fracture on my right ankle after stair accident in 2000, few months before I flied to Sinpagore and Australia with family. :squint:

Tonsils were removed twice when I was 2 years old and also 18 years old. Sucker!

Now is my sons:

My oldest son had an accident at Euro Disneyland in Paris in 2003. We rushed him to hospitial. Lucky is no bone fracture and no brain injury but scratch mark on his forehead, arm to elbow and knee.

Alarm after check my oldest sons´s eye and suspect that its´tumor. We rushed him to specialist for brain and eye clinic which its 100 km away from our area. Wrong alarm. He has no tumor in his eye. ***REAL PHEW*** It got us bad sleeping for few days and keep on worry. You can image how we feel after learn bad result from the doctor.

My oldest son had bone fractured (arm) after bicycle accident.

My young son:

No once accident... ***knock on the wood***
 
WBHarley said:
My son Sean had broken leg, I rush him to Hospital. He had cast! on Nov 1, 1998 (still remember the date) man... then 5 years later!

then Halloween 2003, His doctor called us to come in the office to talk to me about his cat scan, My heart gave me a Warm feeling that made me knowing there was something wrong, Ok I will "prepare" I was pregnant with Everett.. So we got to the office, I sat down in waiting room, the nurse came out say "lets go wendy" In my head said *what's going on, no one is that quick!*.. Okay, Here we go, I get up and followed her to the exam room upstair, then I was ready to sit but Saw the Dr walked in. my heart became more beating thicker and thicker, I had to remind myself calm down, prepapre, Please don't tell me the bad news. she said "Wendy, let's sit down, Sean you have to listen to this, this is very important for you to understand too okay ?" Sean shook his brain and then Dr looked at me "The Radiologist found a tumor in Sean's head, And I spoke to few doctors, My recommendation is for you to take Sean to Children's hospital in Boston and Meet Dr Proctor who will do this surgery on sean okay?" I said "Okay, I will take him there" of course I was froze a bit but at Same time I FELT SO RELIEF! Why ? because They finally FIND OUT what was wrong with him.. It took us almost 2 months to figure out why he was having constantly headaches!

Every child I take them to ER yes I do worry but I know I have a great doctors in my hands with my children so I can relax :)

Wendy
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Oh dear!
I can image how you feel. It affect us when the doctor suspect that my oldest son had tumor in his right eye. Check my story in my last post here. We made quick appointment and drove to eye and brain specialist which it´s 100 km away from my area. We were collapsed after learn that its´wrong alarm and happy that my son is healthy. My friends suggest me to sue the doctor for wrong suspection to scary us etc. I told them that I would not do that but happy that my son is healthy which it´s most important. I also told them that every doctors could be mistake, no prefect.

Anyway, I´m happy that you trust doctors´s hand to have Sean´s treatment.
 
Let's see I was hospitalized when I was an infant due to ear infections, got pnemonia three times. Got ear tubes surgeries like 5 or 6 times. Got stiches on my head many times (i was wild like a monkey)

Got thumb surgery (weird extra bone had to be removed)

Got recent knee surgeries in 2003. Got one in Jan 2003, March 2003, and again in May 2003. I jumped over banister after painting the ceiling, landed on my both feet, realized I reinjuired my bad knee from my teenager years that I had dislocated my knee.

Anyway...Went to see dr, was sent for MRI, found out I broke my knee bone and had very sevre ACL. It had to be repaired, took me so long to get thru therapy, then in June-July, found out I was preggy with my 2nd child.. I was a mess.

My first son stayed at NICU for three days when he was born, he had respiratory distress. He's been to ER thousand of times, found out he has childhood asthma. He is outgrowing it now. (knocking on wood).
 
I have been hospitalized and rushed to ER many times..
too many to tell.. lol

My first son- he has been rushed to ER couple times for high fever, bad lung infections and getting stitches on his bottom lip from an accident at school last december.

Kieran.. nothing so far..:knocks on wood:

Sean- nothing so far either :knocks onw ood again:

phew..
 
I have been hospitalized many times when I was a child for croup, ear tubes, other things...

...can't remember too much about those times.

I do remember though, I did spend five days in the hospital in January 2004. I had bacterial meningitis. Won't get into detail. Those are buried in the archives (past posts) somewhere.

-Malf
 
I was 7 yrs old got in car accident, got in hosp, 11 yrs old got bad accident ride bike totally broken both legs,lost kneecap, alot scars got in hosp later got brace on my legs till i was in freshman got home from school, somehow i don't feel at all my hand was slammed by car door my older sis was go in front car i was in back seat i hold there and talk to my baby sis and my older sis already shut car door, my baby sis was shocked say is my hand ok? i say huh i look at my hand whoa it already slammed so she open door it bleed broken 2 fingers so older sis s ex bf is doctor put cast on my both fingers all my fam laugh cuz my fingers sign peace ,\/,, :lol: but my baby sister worse never forgot she was 8 yrs old try play as horse on old tank we didnt knew meanie dog was there in same fence where my baby sis play on old tank as imaginary horse so i was feed grandma's all animals so older sis n bro fishing mom n grandma was in kitchen i was next fence from where my baby sister was in another fence i was shocked n drop all foods, saw whole thingy i run to my baby sis cuz meanie dog run to my baby sis grab torn her cheek oh my it gross all blood n torn cheek i yell call fam to come here, so grandma n mom take sis to hosp., got staples on her cheek, so me n grandpa discuss has to let meanie dog go cuz tooo mean to anyone, so grandpa has to put his dog to sleep. my fam think i m toughy wolfy oh well :)
 
I was one month old for having heart surgery in December 1969. I had a congenital heart defect called PDA from maternal rubella.

When I was around 1 year old, I went to hospital with double pneumonia.

When I was one month shy of my 2nd birthday (this was in Oct 1971, I was born in Nov), I had bacterial meningitis and stayed in hospital for about 2 weeks. My mother said I was tied down on the bed, and had needles stuck in my temples to get the medicine in faster (they said I had a bad kind of Bac. Meningitis).

Then...when I was about 3 or 4, I had Exploratory Intestinal surgery because I was bleeding....they also took out my appendix too!

I had a couple of "outpatient" stories, but these above are when I "stayed at the hospital".

Nancy :cool:
 
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When I was little my brother pushed me off the swing, my tooth went through my lip and chipped my tooth and had to have stitches in my lip.

When my son was 1 1/2 years old my dad came to my house telling me that my son chopped his finger off. He drove me to the wrong hospital, and he didn't know if someone had grabbed his finger or not. He ended up not being so bad, just the tip was chopped off, not the whole thing and he needed stitches, that was it. Then again when he was 3 years he hit his head on my bedroom window sill after jumping on the bed. We took him to the hospital and he had to have his head stitched up.
So so far, just stitches, and problems at birth, but was fine once we left.
 
i was 25 yrs old, i was seprated from married... so i moved back with my mom and i was in my room, i felt funny breath so i thought nutthin wrong.. so i walked in livingroom, my mom was in her room, somehow i catched stop breath and i fell down and tried call my mom but i cant! so my mom heard my breath was loud so she came and saw me, she grabbed phone and called 911 on me, so mom opened the door and let air on til they came to put oxygen on me, i was cried hard, cuz of it scared me hitted first time so they took me to ER, my mom was with me.. so we arrived there, the dr checked on me everything and found out that i has anixtey attack, cuz of i was very ver stressed from my ex hubby everything seprated married.. that why.. it was happened in 1997.. til this month, i has anixtey attack again, cuz of everything was stress on me.. thanks lot to this person... sigh.. now i am not going let happen again shyt!
 
been hosptialized for eye removal, busted ankle and finger cut...and cuts when i was little... but im doing good * knock on wood*
 
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