I had to take my oldest daughter, she's eight, to the E.R. at 5:30 am on Weds. She woke up at 4:30 am clutching her chest over her heart and crying hysterically. She said her heart hurt and her left shoulder hurt and was doing real shallow breaths. She had a fever of 100.7 and I thought she was having a heart attack! We took her to the E.R. and they said her heartbeat was 160 and it should have been 90 and her temp had went up to 102.3 degrees. They did an EKG and chest scans and gave her some motrin. They said all the tests came back fine and once the motrin kicked in it stopped her chest pain and her heart rate went down and her fever lowered to 99.5 so they sent us home.
We went home slept for a couple hours when we woke up there was a message on the machine from the hospital that they looked at the chest xrays again and saw a spot of pneumonia and that they needed my pharmacy number to call in script for antibiotics. While I was on hold calling them back my daughter starting crying again that her heart hurt and was racing and that she couldn't breath. She ended up getting admitted to the hospital for 2 days with a co-infection of two types of pneumonia. She is home now but is still pale and weak but no more chest pain or heart racing and she is taking two different antibiotics.
I was so scared when she was crying and holding her heart and panting to get breath out. I thought about what could happen and literally felt my heart break with just the thought. I always take their health for granted but I know some parents aren't that lucky and I had just a small taste of that panic and pain of seeing your child seriously ill. My heart and prayers go out to parents with seiously ill and terminally ill children.
Christie
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