Modern medicine - the dog solved it (sort of)- true story from my life in the last 24 hours
2/2/12 3:58 I get a call from daycare - "Josie fell backwards and hit her head she is very woozy..." I am shutting my computer and say to my boss "I am out of here Josie hit her head on the playground". She, of course, is cool with that.
4:18 completed the 25 minute ride to daycare and have Josie in my arms. Headed to the hospital. Josie is nodding off but I keep her awake from the front seat.
4:35 Mom meets us at the entrance to the ER and carries Josie in.
4:37 Josie throws up into a bag in the lobby of the ER
Okay enough of the timeline.
EKG - fine
CT Scan - fine
No one can figure it out. I have told all the staff ( who were FANTASTIC as usual) that the kids at daycare saw Josie walking by herself, stop, knees wobble, falls backwards like a tree onto the back of her head in the tree bark playground.
The ER doc thinks she might have a stomach virus that is going around.
They want to keep her for the night for observation. Old school, old south (complete with bowtie) neurologist comes into our room in the pediatrics ward. [font color = red]My child is seeing a neurologist[/font]. He can't figure it out. He says that most likely she fainted. Since being at the hospital she has complained about her tummy being sore. He says (and he is great with her) that fainting in caused by low blood pressure. The sight of blood or a spider or sudden abdominal pain could cause this. Her foggy behavior since then could be either an adrenaline drop or concussion (what I assumed it was) OR her sleepy mode since the accident could be a sign of seizure. [font color = red]SEIZURE[/font]. He says there is no reason for a healthy child with no family history to have a seizure but we will need an EEG.
This morning - Mom stayed with her in the room because there was only one fold out chair.
EEG. The tech, who has been doing this for 12 years, says that he doesn't see anything wrong on the EEG.
During the EEG a volunteer came by with her therapy dog. I asked if she come back in 20 minutes or so.
She returns with Gracie. One of 9 sheltie's she and her husband have. 3- or was it 7? -are trained and certified as therapy dogs.
Gracie is in the hospital bed with Josie. Josie is loving all over her so I say to the owner/handler, "She was just walking in the playground and got wobbly knees and fell backwards onto her head"
Josie: "That's not what happened!"
Me: "It isn't?"
Josie: "Well.... I was climbing up the ladder on the playground and my foot slipped. I hit my tummy and it hurt. I got off the ladder. It was tough to breath. I started walking to the teachers when I guess that is when it happened".
Me: "That's what happened?"
Josie: "Yep" she goes back to playing with Gracie
I look up at the handler "Well how about that? Gracie got us the whole story"
Handler: " You wouldn't believe how often that happens"
WOW just WOW
The neurologist and ER doc pretty much had it right but we didn't know about the ladder until Josie was coherent (the next day) and had Gracie to help her. Personally I think she had the wind knocked out of her. It has happened to me playing football a couple of times and suddenly not breathing is a bit of a shock - Josie kept it together enough to get off the ladder which is saying something.
Thank you Gracie. Just, thank you.
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Must have been quite a scare - hope she's OK very soon 
