E.D. - Aria MacDonald

E.D.

3 Sep at 10:17 pm by Hamish MacDonald

The emergency department is a really tough place to be. For Aria and us it is a necessary stepping stone to what we know is an inevitable admission.

We got in there this morning just before 10am and Anita got into a room about 5 o’clock this afternoon. It’s a real mental battle being in that situation, knowing that you will (hopefully) be getting a room at some stage but having to hang in E.D in the meantime. To make things worse Aria knows that we aren’t staying in E.D too and wants to go up stairs to our room too.

What ends up happening is Aria asking for whoever is with her, this time Anita, to walk around and around and around the emergency department. Very boring and very tiring. Anita was a real trooper today and saw things through till a room came free.

When she got upstairs, they gave Aria a transfusion to get some blood into her to help with the Hb count, and started her on antibiotics to see if they can clear up whatever is lingering around causing trouble.

Hopefully she’ll be happier in the morning, and hopefully Aria and Anita would both have had a good night’s sleep. A sleep that Anita really needed after all those laps of E.D.

By the way, Aria is stuff.co.nz here

A few things were simplified for the sake of the story such as Aria being the first bowel/kidney kid not multi-oragan, but overall a good piece.