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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I have two children, ages 9 and 5. We have been to the ER literally never. Beyond annual checkups, we have called their pediatricians advice nurse countless times, had televisits if they need a prescription, gone to urgent care once in a case when my son would not stop vomiting and once when my other son had a bad cut. Urgent care is the place for MANY of the items on your list, others probably required a call to the doc.

The ER is for ACUTE emergencies: that means that they would lose their life or the use of some part of their body unless their was an intervention.

I agree that your family is on a CFSA list and you may suspect that and that's why you are freaking out.[/quote]

My ped didn’t have a nurse line or telehealth. And urgent cares are not open at 1am. I am the PP who took my DS to the ER 9 times (but zero in the past 4 years). I never had anyone suggesting any of those visits were inappropriate. The one time I was able to get my ped on the phone (huge knot on head from falling down) she was able to counsel me to stay home. But in the middle of the night when kid cannot breathe? Yes, ER. [/quote]

Not PP, but you described taking your child to the ER for stitches, and multiple seizures. Those are ER situations.

I just can’t wrap my head around OP thinking that “waking up on a Saturday with a 102 degree fever” is something where you would pack your kid in the car and go sit in the ER for 9 hours. Like…give them some Advil and tuck them into bed, ffs. Call the doctor if the fever isn’t gone in a few days. But the ER? That’s nuts.[/quote]

OP here...and what if it was a preemie that had the 102 fever? Or a child that had a compromised immune system? Or a child that had recently gotten over a severe blood infection? Can you wrap your head around any of those scenarios? Probably not because (luckily for you) it sounds like you've never experienced any of them. Look...you handled you situation your way, and we handled ours our way. I wouldn't dare call you a slacker parent for giving your child a dose of motrin and sending him back to bed, so why do you feel the need to be so critical of us for doing what we felt was in the best interest of our child given the circumstances? [/quote]

Does the kid with compromised immune system have a plan of care for fever? Is it to pack up and go to the ER? What about follow up instructions for the blood infection? It seems surprising to me that the plan of care would be step 1 - go to ER.

Sure, you don’t owe us all the medical history on your kids. But if they do have complex medical history your posts are so misleading it seems intentional (or trolling, maybe?). You didn’t say, I have a kid with a compromised immune system so we’ve been advised my medical team to go to ER if any sign of concern. You said kid woke up with a fever on the weekend so we went to the ER. Do you see how one of those things make you sound like a reasonable responsible parent and the other makes you sound bat shit crazy?

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