Emergency rooms are very levelling. Triage is an explicit levelling, but just waiting together an unknown time, in public, with pain and sickness and tears is also good for the soul. I would recommend starting here at the Childrens, but for advanced practitioners, after midnight Friday or Saturday at Footscray emergency. It's a spiritual discipline. The worl may offer a lot of good things, but there's a lot of waiting for improvement to be done, and the waiting room is a good place to be reminded.
UPDATE: He's fine. No measurable fever and demonstrated remarkable forbearance in the ER. Staff were very kind and thorough, and managed to ask 'Is this your first child?' as a medical history question. But you don't want to fool around with newborns, and they were also very thorough about encouraging us to bring him back any time.
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Our thoughts with you. We have done the triage run a couple of times, it's tiring. Hope Abel recovers quickly :)
ReplyDeleteHope all is well this morning. Rob had a fever at 7 days and then another at 14 days. Very scary at the time.
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