Comments on: Childhood Illnesses - UTI http://ellenrebekah.com/130 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:55:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ginger http://ellenrebekah.com/130/comment-page-1#comment-69 ginger Fri, 05 May 2006 23:05:36 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/?p=130#comment-69 Without being too graphic, the "pelvic' ultrasound is a penetration type of ultrasound dunno if you had to do that too or not, but it was very scary for Haley :cry: (probably more weird if you are old enough to have been taught that nothing is supposed to go there type of thing) I have only heard good things about NTP nurses :) which is great because we have one of those up here too, but the Nurses Haley had were completely frazzled and acted like "this could have been prevented" and were just nasty. I definitely think "being there" is SOOO important. But poor Katie (Haley's mom) was so distressed about all of it and said " I can just see her coming to me when she is 20 and saying that she has horrible memories of "someone touching her where they aren't supposed to" (she was more graphic) and her Blaming me for it!". We all tried to assure her that wouldn't be the case, but overall the whole thing is just upsetting. I think it won't be a big deal, I mean Haley seems better about the check ups now, but I know now that knowing your Babies dr.s "routine" is very important, just so you can prepare everyone for what will be happening. It sounds like you had a much better experience though! ;) eeee I wish I had commented on something happier first ! ha! Without being too graphic, the “pelvic’ ultrasound is a penetration type of ultrasound dunno if you had to do that too or not, but it was very scary for Haley :cry: (probably more weird if you are old enough to have been taught that nothing is supposed to go there type of thing)

I have only heard good things about NTP nurses :) which is great because we have one of those up here too, but the Nurses Haley had were completely frazzled and acted like “this could have been prevented” and were just nasty.

I definitely think “being there” is SOOO important. But poor Katie (Haley’s mom) was so distressed about all of it and said ” I can just see her coming to me when she is 20 and saying that she has horrible memories of “someone touching her where they aren’t supposed to” (she was more graphic) and her Blaming me for it!”. We all tried to assure her that wouldn’t be the case, but overall the whole thing is just upsetting. I think it won’t be a big deal, I mean Haley seems better about the check ups now, but I know now that knowing your Babies dr.s “routine” is very important, just so you can prepare everyone for what will be happening.

It sounds like you had a much better experience though! ;)
eeee I wish I had commented on something happier first ! ha!

]]> By: Rebekah http://ellenrebekah.com/130/comment-page-1#comment-68 Rebekah Fri, 05 May 2006 14:52:25 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/?p=130#comment-68 Yikes! I think we were told ahead of time about the catheter test at Nighttime Pediatrics. It didn't make it anymore pleasant but the nurses there were wonderful, they even checked up on her several times over the week. I don't know if her pelvic ultrasound was different than Sara Ellen's (the first place the tech did was her pelvis) but she was nice enough though not quite as much as the NP nurses. I just had this vision of her not wanting me there but when we got started it would have been impossible for her to do the scanning and hold my baby down. My mom said when I was 2 and had x-rays taken before finger surgery I was really upset and the techs were confused because they "weren't hurting [me]" and Mom informed them that they were scaring me. She hadn't been with me originally. Yikes! I think we were told ahead of time about the catheter test at Nighttime Pediatrics. It didn’t make it anymore pleasant but the nurses there were wonderful, they even checked up on her several times over the week.

I don’t know if her pelvic ultrasound was different than Sara Ellen’s (the first place the tech did was her pelvis) but she was nice enough though not quite as much as the NP nurses. I just had this vision of her not wanting me there but when we got started it would have been impossible for her to do the scanning and hold my baby down. My mom said when I was 2 and had x-rays taken before finger surgery I was really upset and the techs were confused because they “weren’t hurting [me]” and Mom informed them that they were scaring me. She hadn’t been with me originally.

]]> By: Ginger http://ellenrebekah.com/130/comment-page-1#comment-67 Ginger Fri, 05 May 2006 12:47:43 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/?p=130#comment-67 My (just had a birthday this month) 3-year-old niece Haley is having issues with UTI stuff too, recently so it has been a big issue within the family for about 2-3 months. I have found that the nurses we dealt with were completely harsh and uncaring, which I thought was pretty uncommon, but every one of them almost seemed assuasive, like "did you teach her proper hygiene?" and my sister-in-law was like "Sure I did, but she's 2 1/2 so no matter how well I taught her doesn't mean she is going to wipe perfectly 100% of the time" (my SIL is an occupational therapist so it's not like she's a lazy parent or a dummy by any means, which was totally what the nurses where implying with the tone of their voices and the cock to their eyebrows). I think their attitudes made the whole experience so much worse than it needed to be. It was horrible for Haley, when she had to have an ultrasound it wasn't the "over the tummy with gel" it was the very unpleasant pelvic ultrasound, in instead of on top of the body, which they didn't even TELL my SIL they were doing so it was a shock to everyone! I just thought it was so unprofessional; they should have prepped both mother and daughter for that. They also very abruptly said that they were going to put in a catheter 8O poor Haley, it has just been crazy. The whole UTI situation seems to be fairly common, so it seems like they should have some sort of knowledge of treating their patients with patience and respect?!? Anyway, best of luck with nipping it in the bud and YAY for ingenious methods of dosing out medicine :) You sound like an excellent Parent! :mrgreen: My (just had a birthday this month) 3-year-old niece Haley is having issues with UTI stuff too, recently so it has been a big issue within the family for about 2-3 months. I have found that the nurses we dealt with were completely harsh and uncaring, which I thought was pretty uncommon, but every one of them almost seemed assuasive, like “did you teach her proper hygiene?” and my sister-in-law was like “Sure I did, but she’s 2 1/2 so no matter how well I taught her doesn’t mean she is going to wipe perfectly 100% of the time” (my SIL is an occupational therapist so it’s not like she’s a lazy parent or a dummy by any means, which was totally what the nurses where implying with the tone of their voices and the cock to their eyebrows). I think their attitudes made the whole experience so much worse than it needed to be. It was horrible for Haley, when she had to have an ultrasound it wasn’t the “over the tummy with gel” it was the very unpleasant pelvic ultrasound, in instead of on top of the body, which they didn’t even TELL my SIL they were doing so it was a shock to everyone! I just thought it was so unprofessional; they should have prepped both mother and daughter for that. They also very abruptly said that they were going to put in a catheter 8O poor Haley, it has just been crazy. The whole UTI situation seems to be fairly common, so it seems like they should have some sort of knowledge of treating their patients with patience and respect?!?
Anyway, best of luck with nipping it in the bud and YAY for ingenious methods of dosing out medicine :) You sound like an excellent Parent!
:mrgreen:

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