1. You know the key words to say to bypass ER waiting room, get admitted and seen by a doctor in a few minutes. ( keywords: difficulty breathing, heart problem, immune compromised.
2. You get to the ER or your hospital room/ floor and the nurses say: "welcome back".
3. You know which hospital bed is the most comfortable just by looking at it.
4. You are fascinated by all the machines and equipment and wished you had wall mounted suction and oxygen in every room in your house.
5. You tell the nurses how to do their job, which syringes and what tape to use and really prefer to do the procedures yourself.
6. You ask at the front desk if they have a frequent visitor card so that you can collect some points or maybe get the 10th stay for free.
7. You know how to make beeping Mashines stop by pressing the right button or changing the parameters.
8. You find entertainment or rather obsess about the monitors and know what SpO2, Bpm mean.
9. When you get to the room you find your preferred bed, several pillows and blankets all ready.
10. When you speak to your family, friends and colleagues about your child's condition they think you speak Chinese and are impressed with the honorary medical degree you have earned.
Yes,it is exactly like that, in fact, we have to do free training to the nurses and some doctors, better than for them to figure it out,by the way, did you have some recent visit to the hospital again?How are things with EPI going?
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Dimkovski family
Hi Nina and Darin.
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Yes spent Thursday night at the hospital. Jagger had not been feeling well, started developing a fever, was extremely tired and lethargic and had breathing problems or rather was breathing funny. Decided to check it out to make sure he doesn't have pneumonia or some other infection. Everything was negative and after some additional breathing treatments and Iv fluid we went home. He seems better.
Still waiting on EPI. Arghhh