While we have Aiden’s breathing improved. He’s still labouring. We’ve also got him on treatments that tend to race the heart a little. That’s right… vibrating toddler. So much fun.
The Doctor’s opinion is that Aiden is going to be getting a room at Chez-Healthmart tonight.
That way we can monitor how things are doing for him.
I will post a phone number on a fairly tight filter. I can also be reached via cell and IM this evening.
More as we know more.
Thank you for the well wishes
Some of you may notice, I’m not performing Mass today as planned.
aiden_freeman had a very bad night with his breathing. Coughing throughout the night and a lot of laboured breathing.
Our standard routine for this is to bring him into the hospital for evaluation. They give him a stronger treatment of Albuterol… Do X-Rays to check for Pneumonia, and then discharge him once the treatment has started to kick in.
The usual procedure is to continue the Albuterol and apprise his pediatrician if things get worse. Normally, this does the trick.
Today however, the treatment began to wear off as we were leaving the hospital. It’s not supposed to do that.
Within an hour he was back to the state he was in this morning. Heavy wheezing, laboured breathing… and now there was a fever.
We headed back to the hospital and I put the call into the pediatrician. We also pulled jonah777 who’d been on standby since the first hospital alert this morning.
Hospital clocked him in at 101º F. Which is enough to have us doing more to check.
He’s since been given more Albuterol. And some Tylenol and some steroid. This may take 4-6 hours.
Current prognosis is that he may get himself his first overnight stay at the hospital.
We’ll keep people posted… And I’ll be online via the usual mechanisms.
and 101.5 temperature.
I really should have accepted when the boy heaved upon my lap that I was going to share in his misery.
H had it yesterday.
This is nasty.
Dizzy, nauseous.
And enough energy to not want to be anywhere in any position.
meh
As you can see by the time…. it’s… late.
Well, I guess it’s only about 1:15 in the afternoon if you’re in Greece 😉
Sadly here, we are experiencing a parental milestone.
The child has awoken us by sharing his unhappy stomach in bed with us.
Of course this begins with chaos RIPPING you from the warm embrace of unconsciousness.
You then move into controlled, battle mode. Making sure everything is cleaned, washed, changed while ABOVE ALL
keeping the scared toddler consoled.
That was at 2am.. it is 3:15 am. The scared, now stomach-empty boy is cherubically back to dream world.
I however, am still kicked on adrenaline and trying to make my eyes stop burning from the slowly clearing din of tainted air.
Great.. it takes vomit at 3am to help me turn a phrase.
I’ll be sleeping in.. maybe
This filk is called “Go Away Snot Boy” – It is a filk of S. J. Tucker’s amazing “Go Away God Boy”
(Now Public)
Some notes on this filk:
This filk is tied to the version of “Go Away God Boy” as performed on Sirens.
It scans great to that version. It doesn’t do as well to the published lyrics on S.J.’s site.
Two things about the chorus.
1st. There is a note (cough). The performer should actually cough on this beat. (Yeah it’s fast.)
2nd. The third line of the chorus changes each of the three times it’s sung. Insert the changes as noted.
Liberties taken: Just make ‘shambling starspawned’ work as best you can. It’ll fit if you try
Dies should be pronounced in this song as one syllable. Yes I know it is two.. Just deal.
Finally. There is a place where you can entirely freeform. It’s marked with ** with notes at the bottom.
And then there was the filk itself
