I normally take my cell phone to church with me because I do not wear a watch and when I'm teaching my primary class I need to know the time so I can let my little monsters out to go to sharing time.
Well, this last weekend when I picked up Madyson from her mom, she was complaining that she didn't feel well. So she was pretty much in bed Friday and all day Saturday. When I woke her up Sunday morning to get ready for church, she still wasn't feeling well. Deb didn't have to teach Young Women's so she volunteered to stay home.
Right before my primary class began, I looked at my phone to check the time and there was a message from Deb. "Can you come home 15 minutes early so I can go to church to work with the young women for their program?" Sure. Why not. That means I get to leave about 10:45.
Well, about 10:20 I see the door to the primary room open and it's my Dad. He's got a funny look on his face and he's motioning really fast for me to get out of the primary room. I look at the clock and realize that it's not time for me to leave yet, but maybe Deb is in a hurry and wants me home.
Nope. As I meet my Dad in the hallway, he tells me that I need to go home because Maddy is having chest pains and is not coherent. As an EMT in a previous life, I realize that is not good and so I rushed home.
She's not running a fever, her pulse is slow and weak and her skin is kind of clamy. None of those are good signs. One of our neighbors is an ER nurse and she comes over and says Maddy should go see a doctor. Dad comes over and we give Maddy a blessing and off to Urgent Care we go.
Turns out Maddy was severely dehydrated. Somehow they were able to say that she was a quart low on fluids in her body. It was begining to shut down. She also has a severe sinus infection and bronchitis to boot. Poor little girl.
Doc tells us to go to the Circle K and get Maddy a big gulp of soda. He says he normally would not recommend that, but in her case, she needed something with liquids, sugars, and other stuff that soda apparently has. So, we got her a soda and some Gatorade's and went home where she stayed in bed until Monday night.
Well, this last weekend when I picked up Madyson from her mom, she was complaining that she didn't feel well. So she was pretty much in bed Friday and all day Saturday. When I woke her up Sunday morning to get ready for church, she still wasn't feeling well. Deb didn't have to teach Young Women's so she volunteered to stay home.
Right before my primary class began, I looked at my phone to check the time and there was a message from Deb. "Can you come home 15 minutes early so I can go to church to work with the young women for their program?" Sure. Why not. That means I get to leave about 10:45.
Well, about 10:20 I see the door to the primary room open and it's my Dad. He's got a funny look on his face and he's motioning really fast for me to get out of the primary room. I look at the clock and realize that it's not time for me to leave yet, but maybe Deb is in a hurry and wants me home.
Nope. As I meet my Dad in the hallway, he tells me that I need to go home because Maddy is having chest pains and is not coherent. As an EMT in a previous life, I realize that is not good and so I rushed home.
She's not running a fever, her pulse is slow and weak and her skin is kind of clamy. None of those are good signs. One of our neighbors is an ER nurse and she comes over and says Maddy should go see a doctor. Dad comes over and we give Maddy a blessing and off to Urgent Care we go.
Turns out Maddy was severely dehydrated. Somehow they were able to say that she was a quart low on fluids in her body. It was begining to shut down. She also has a severe sinus infection and bronchitis to boot. Poor little girl.
Doc tells us to go to the Circle K and get Maddy a big gulp of soda. He says he normally would not recommend that, but in her case, she needed something with liquids, sugars, and other stuff that soda apparently has. So, we got her a soda and some Gatorade's and went home where she stayed in bed until Monday night.
3 comments:
Poor thing. That is not fun. I hope she gets feeling better soon. We want her to be up and running this weekend when we get there. Tell her we are thinking of her and to get lots of rest.
Bill says the same thing..I only bring my phone to church in case of an emergency-yea right..and to check the game scores and play games on the phone when it gets boring. lol
Oh my gosh, I had no idea!! Poor maddy! I hope she is feeling better. Thats really scary.
How in the world do you lose that much water from your body? I'm glad that she is up and running about.
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