We took Emily to A&E for the first time last night or rather at 4am this morning. We’d been at Bianca’s formal and had come home late. She seemed ok at that point but woke up coughing and wimpering at about midnight. Isaac woke up at about the same time. I was apparently useless (as I usually am when I’m not awake) but Bree managed to get some cold medicine into Isaac and get him back to sleep. Emily though was another matter. She dozed once or twice but not for long. So at 4am Bree had had enough and we all piled into the car and headed up to the Mater. At that time of day it only takes 15 minutes from Logan! I dropped off Bree and Emily and since Isaac was asleep I just parked nearby to wait for instructions.
It took a little while but eventually Bree was told there would be a wait so she SMSed me to go home. I drove off and got all the way to the Gateway merge before she SMSed to say that they were done. Apparently once they got through triage it was all really fast.
It turns out Emily has a viral middle ear infection. There’s no anti- anything for that so we just have to dose her on pain killers. I didn’t know this but you can combine Panadol (Paracetamol) and Nurofen (Ibuprofen) when kids need stronger pain relief. Emily had already had Panadol so they gave us some Ibuprofen and it made Emily feel much better.
After a brief attempt at waking up, Isaac let us all sleep in till 9:40 when he woke up and went into meltdown because he was so hungry. Emily said she was fine but we dosed her up again just in case. We went out for lunch which the kids enjoyed and I got a pair of Jeans, something Bree seemed to think was hilarious.
Poor darling. The ibuprofen/paracetamol combo is handy.