It has been a bad joke between Christina and I that if the doctors mention that something could possibly go wrong, it would. That just happens to be Jacob's luck. Today Murphy struck again. His new at-home nurse overdosed him on Lovenox, a powerful blood thinner. She gave him ten times the prescribed dose.
I was at work when Christina called and told me to haul ass and meet her at home so we could take him to the emergency room. Winthrop in Mineola and other local hospitals are not equipped to handle a child with HLHS. We were like a hot-potato, no one wanted to touch us - so off to Colombia we went. After an hour and a half in heavy traffic we finally arrived. We went to the brand new pediatric emergency at Colombia. The doctors and the poison control center decided that it was best to avoid the antidote and wait it out. It seems that the antidote carries its own threats. He was admitted around 9:30pm. So far it seems that there are no ill effects of the overdose, but time will tell. I think he is mostly out of the woods but the doctors remained worried about deleterious effects neurologically that may not show until later. More tomorrow. It has been a long day. I thought we were going to lose him today.
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