Baby Bear was sick today

My son James has been giving his mom and me a scare these past 2-3 days. He has had a fever and it has not seemed to go away like his others have in the past. So instead of waiting we called the on call nurse at Egleston Children's Hospital. She listened to my wife and then heard my son cough over the phone and said just to be sure we should bring him in to the emergency room. So we headed over there with James and his Baby Bear in tow. Baby Bear is a little stuffed bear that was giving to us when he was born. It is one of his many stuffed bears that sleeps with him in his crib. James seems to hold onto this one whenever he is not feeling well.

So off we went to the hospital. We got there and to my surprise were seen quite quickly for an emergency room. Usually with most emergency rooms we would have to spend many hours just getting someone to fill out our paperwork just to get him seen. We walked in and was given a small device that looked like a remote control but was actually a vibrating beeper. The young lady at the desk told us that when this beep went off it would then be our turn to have James seen. No more then about 15 minute rolled by and that beeper was going off. We were then lead into a small room where two nurses took James' vital signs. They had a little chair no bigger than him to sit in and get comfortable. They then placed some very small probes to his hand and fingers to get his blood pressure and heart rate. After all this was done we were then told to go back into the waiting room until the doctor could see us. Any time James felt a little out of place or scared there was Baby Bear to calm him down.

We then waited another 30-45 minutes to get to see the doctor. I was not too impressed with the doctor but I was impressed with the way our registration was taken. The person doing the registration came into our room to take our information using a tablet pc. After getting the information from us she had me sign off on what she took down right on the computer using a stylus pen. I signed my name electronically. This I thought was the most efficient way one could get this information without having use wait in line and have to speak to someone behind a glass wall like most hospitals I was used to being in.

We then got a frozen popsicle treat for James and a prescription for an antibiotic that should help him with his ear infection and his fever. They even validated our parking so we would not have to pay a parking fee. So as a result both James and Baby Bear and now at home sleeping soundly and getting his strength back to goto daycare on this Tuesday hopefully.

Lisa and I really didn't have anything to worry about but as new parents wanted to be safe than sorry. We are so blessed to have this wonderful time with James at this age. He is only two but we know within time he and Baby Bear with both grow up to not need each other as much as they do now.