Seriously????!!!??

So on the back end of my last post about doctors, its just so happened that we had to go to the alberta children's hospital last night. I am just in freaking awe about the level of how our health care system works. Here is the story.

Last night we were on our way over to my fiancee's parents house for dinner, when we get a call from them to pick up something from the grocery store for them. I drop off my fiancee so she can just run in and get it, where I do a big loop around the parking lot. I hear a sound in the back and as I look back I see almost oozing out of his mouth, vomiting, his eyes are popping out of his head, and his face is blue. I of course freak out, park the truck, run over to the other side, get him out of the car seat, it was insane, and a whirlwind all at the same time. I go over there, and I see blood in his vomit.

I am doing whatever I can to make sure he's okay, which he seems like he just got shocked the heck out of, but he is breathing, and he FILLED his diaper during that episode, I know because we just changed him before we left. So I wipe him down, change him out of his outfit, and I see bits of blood on his outfit. My fiancee calls, and asks where I am I said the other side of the parking lot, and our son just puked everywhere, and there is something wrong. With a blink she showed up, started to clean out the car seat. We have an insert in the car seat for colder days, It was soaked in puke, and she said "Is this blood?" I said "yeah, I was wondering if it was". She said it first "We are going to the hospital.", so I change his diaper and outfit. She cleans out his car seat, and within minutes we are out of there.

We get to the hospital, it happens again. He starts throwing up all over himself . This time my fiancee is in the back with him and we clean him up, I take him out of the car seat, and rush him into emergency. I didnt even close my door. I went up to the nurse, and told them what has happened, my fiancee is right behind me. She tells us okay, go into the triage right away, which we did. She took his temperature, he was fine, we rambled off whats been happening to him lately, he's had green poops the past 10 days... She said okay, go over to the acute treament side, and you will be called in soon, but first I had to be seperated.

They wanted me to go into a seperate area to fill out paperwork. So I go there, and just sit, and wait to be called. Finally they call my fiancee's name about 20 minutes later. We go into admitting, then I ask if I can go sit with them, and I still havent filled out anything. She almost laughed saying "Yes of course you can stay together". I was getting a little upset at this point, saying dont laugh its your stupid rules im trying to follow. So I go over and we wait, and we wait and wait and wait. Finally a couple hours later we reach "Triage 2", where they check him over, give him some pedialyte mixed with apple juice. They say "yeah we are really busy, if you came in yesterday or the day before it would have been fine", and Im thinking what a STUPID thing to say. Oh Im sorry my son didnt have vomiting blood episodes yesterday when it would have been convenient for the hospital. So we wait some more. In total we wait for about 4 hours.

Around 9:30, they FINALLY bring us in, Im thinking cool, a half hour tops and we are outta here. The doctor strolls in at about 10:45. Starts talking, a mile a minute I might add, saying things like "You know when a teenage drinks too much, then has to throw up after being so drunk, but if he throws up a few times, there are traces of blood in it, and the parents then get worried about him" Im thinking, WTF is wrong with you. He's three months old, do you think he's hammered and we are bringing him in, what a stupid analogy. How about you check him out before you start with the stupid comments. But no, he gets called out to a "Non-stat emergency", which we then are like, fine, our son has been okay since been here, he is EXHAUSTED tired, we just want to take him home but we have to wait another 20 minutes for the doctor to come back. He takes a whoping 1 minute to look at him, feel him for lumps, checks his ears and eyes. And says, "He's probably fine now".

So we take him home realizing we've been at the hospital for about 6 hours. We are now both wondering if our son is going to get sick from being in the waiting room for so long, caught something from all the other sick kids that were there. And I wonder what the heck is with our health care system that it takes 6 hours for a hospital to check over a 3 month old baby that has blood in his vomit. I am just shocked about that. I mean weve been through the waiting game a couple times while my fiancee was pregnant and we would spend a good 10 hours, sometimes longer, which even then I was just thinking why. Now a tiny little new baby takes so long. And I think its funny that my wavering thoughts about doctors, and now we go through this, the only word I have is "Seriously???!!!??"