20th May

I have still been able to eat and drink almost like normal! We’ve had a rough few days and Tia is have a lot of her spacing’s as well as still a temperature and not eating/drinking. I take her to Cobram hospital and ask to see the on call dr as she is really sick by now and I am panicked! They call the gp and send us around we wait in the waiting room for our turn and go and see dr Tyndall. She examines Tia and notes my concerns, lack of food/fluids, spacing’s, temperature and swollen gums. She informs me her opinion of what she would do (a tell me without telling me) and then informs me dr stupid Tahhan wants to examine her as she seen what her tonsils were like prior. We go then and see dr stupid who looks in her mouth and says that she’s not as bad and make her drink and eat more (mind you my baby can barely stay awake!) She informs me to take her to the hospital if she hasn’t urinated in over 18 hours I then inform her that it has already been 22 hours! She sends us home. I call Russell and tell him that I will be taking her to hospital the second he gets home from work. I get into the ER at Cobram hospital and the nurse gets to work right away Tia’s wee showed the same nasty’s as mums from dehydration. She’s put on a drip the on-call dr calls dr stupid who informs him of what is going on he decided to overrule her and admit her for rehydration and observation. The attending ER nurse is concerned and would like to see Tia sent to Shepparton children’s ward as she is unconscious and not very responsive. After 24 hours on the drip etc She is then transfers to Shepparton ER and her bloods show that there is major issues atm she in and has been considered unconscious and unresponsive for over 72 hours now and their attempts to revive her have failed, the 24 hours on drip hadn’t helped her hydration a bit and things are looking really nasty. We spend 7 hours in the ER and talks about being air lifted to the RCH if Tia doesn’t not respond soon. After 7 hours on the drip and with a few IV meds she is conscious enough that when they take her blood for the thousandth time that night she for the slightest second whimpers. YAY she is conscious and can be admitted to the children’s ward and the paediatric specialist can and will now examine her. Within minutes she has diagnosed Tia and medications start and within hours she is more responsive. They believe that over our 72 hours of hell Tia had had several febrile convulsions without body seizures as well as absentee seizures. They are referring us for later EEG’s at RCH to make sure there is no fluid build up on the brain etc. We over the next few days get better and as Tia get’s better I start to feel a little more ill each day. Also needless to say we now REFUSE to see dr stupid again as not only was her advice for me wrong and land me in hospital but her lack of care for Tia was a close brush with permanent danger.