I am finally back to work, and while I sit here typing this Elizabeth is sound asleep in her crib next to my desk..lol
I think she is a bit young to be learning to type just yet, so I will let her do what she is good at, eat, sleep and poop..
We have just paid out $500 for something which we didn’t need and which didn’t really help apparently, why did we pay it?
Because the Dr recommended it, when Elizabeth was born they asked us who was our dr and Kathy gave them the name of the Dr she uses for Cameron (who is 16). The dr came out, said Elizabeth had jaundice and we needed to hire some special lights at $100 a day.
Of course I didn’t question it, $100 a day against my daughters health is nothing.
So we got the lights and all was well, I have to say she didn’t look yellow to me, and when the nurses came they kept saying that she really didn’t look jaundiced and didn’t behave like it.
We called the Dr twice over the weekend as we were worried about her not eating as much as we thought she should, they never returned our calls.
The home nurse recommended that we get a paediatrician rather than a “family Dr”.
We took notice especially after the Dr not calling us back , they still haven’t, went to see the paediatrician on Wednesday..
“You are lucky that with such a small baby she didn’t have bad jauncide, at least you didn’t have to get the special lights”
What!
Turns out we should have been told to take her outside for 30 mins a day for a couple of days, indirect sunlight and she would be fine!
We listened to the recommendation of a expert, the problem is he is a expert in family medicine not premature baby’s.
So be careful that the “expert” who is recommending something is actually a expert in the stuff you need to know.
Q: What do you call a medical student who graduated last in his class?
A: “Doctor.”
Moral is, always determine the status of the expert you consult.
I am sorry that I didn’t know that earlier. I knew that the few minute on sun light would be even better that the lights.
My son Ryan, 3-1/2 years old, had jaundice. The worst part is that the hospital knew that and let us go home anyway. They said that since the next day we woud have a folow-up with his pediatrician, they were not concerned about the jaundice.
Next day, when we went to see his pediatrician, his jaundice level was twice as high. My son looked like one of the Umpa-Lumpa (Chocolat-Fabric).
For that level of jaundice, just be outside wouldn’t be enough. His Jaundice was so serious that the DR. called the hospital and asked for his admission without have to fill the paperwork.
After 5 days sleeping on the floor of a “semi-privet” room, with my son inside a acrilic box surounded by special lights, we got to go home with one of the little “blanket Light.
Now… 3-1/2 years latter, Ryan is a great kid. No health problem at all. You can look his last picture that I took last week
http://www.paulopics.com/blog
Did I mention the cost of 5 days in a hospital + the Lights + here in USA?
You bet… a lot!
Paulo