| What a dreadful weekend! Sunday I woke up feeling icky and really tired. Moons woke up with a headache. She curled up on the sofa after some medicine and watched some cartoons. We religiously took her temp and it kept coming back at 39. Pretty high. Later on, I went to lie down, Pip was asleep in her bed and Steve took a shower. All of a sudden I heard little Moons screaming. I raced downstairs to see her projectile vomiting all over the sofa, the floor, her clothes. Like any good Mother I tried to rush her over to the sink to direct the vomiting, but she couldn't walk. She was so dizzy and disorientated, she just gripped hold of me really tightly and told me she was falling. I rushed her up to Steve and took we took her temp, 41. This after a day of 4 hourly pamol. She was dozy and floppy and I think like every parents worse nightmare, we checked her body for spots or rashes. She didn't have any and her feet weren't cold -phew. But what the hell was it? I called the doctors office, I was put through to an out of hours number, after going through Moons symptoms we were advised to take her to the A + E dept in Kenepuru. Previously we've all bundled into the car and charged off ,but this time we decided that Steve would take her and I would await his phone call as to whether to join them or not. Moons was supposed to have an MRI scan in Auckland ,but they lost the referral and by the time it was realised, we were already in Welly. We decided that as she hadn't had any more headaches since the move, clearly it was Auckland that was the cause of the headaches!! Upon arrival, the doctor was keen to dismiss her with a general virus. Initially he suggested rotovirus, fortunately I had called Steve during the consultation and told Steve that couldn't be right because she didn't have excessive diarrheoa and she'd only just vomited. Furthermore, there was no complaint of a stomach ache. So the dr scrapped that idea and just opted for general viral infection. He discounted the headaches, despite her previous history. Steve left with some more pamol. I find GPs infuriating at the best of times. The primary role of a GP is a referral network - that's how I see them. Fortunately my GP in the UK and our one in Auckland was very good. If they didn't know the answer, they'd refer. Sadly ,there isn't a children's hospital in Welly. So I wouldn't know how to contact a peaditrician. I have a lot of time for specialists, they have afterall, worked just that little bit harder. I have requested that when Bullet is born, I will automatically get a Ped and I won't need to bother with vague GP checks, which to be honest, I could probably do myself. I believed that when we were in the UK, I would never find a healthcare system as bad. I was wrong. Wellington might even be worse. Its copping a bad rap in the press at the moment and the government doesn't seem to care. I can swallow it a bit more in the UK, afterall the services are exhausted. Here in NZ though, we pay higher taxes and contribute to costs - appointments are not free here. Most prescriptions aren't covered and there is always a charge. And, there's less people!! What the hell? Just the other day a midwife in Wellington said she would rather recommend another place to give birth, other than the hospital - what a joke! There is no where else! And homebirths get priority and shoved down your throat. Now I know its a government initiative to take some burden away from the hospital. Grrrr! Makes me so angry. Anyway, back to little Moons. She seems better this morning, but my concern is this is the pattern she had in Auckland. Temperature spiking, serious headache, then fine again. I have no idea. |