my poor charli!
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Topic: my poor charli!
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Subject: my poor charli!
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:22pm
charli has always had rasby/rattly/snuffly breathing since birth and i had to take her to the hospital to have a sweat test for cystic fibrosis....this involves holding a thingee on her upper arm (for 5mins) which shoots tiny electrodes to encourage her to sweat. she didn't like it at all, i thought it was because she was hungry so i fed her and then when the lady took it off......her arm was burnt!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
it happened on the other arm also. one was really deep, both about a cm sq. i had to go see the hospital photographer so he could take some pics for acc if needed later and i had a lady from the plastics unit see her so it took forever! i went there at 10.30am and didn't leave until 1.30pm! the nurse that did it felt so bad she had to leave the room. my poor girl! i was almost in tears but charli was so good she didn't really fuss too much, what a champ 
i have to go back on monday so they can have another look to check for infections, so far it looks ok. after all that, they are not sure if they got enough sweat off her arms to do the test!! 
i am NOT going through that again so tough sh*t if they didn't get enough. she's had blood tests a few weeks ago which came back negative and the heel prick test at birth came back negative so now i'm thinking i put my wee girl through that 'just to be sure' ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 22 February 2007 at 9:46pm
| oh poor charli. She wont remember but it is horrible aye. How could they stuff that up so bad? |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 12:07am
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apparently it's a very rare thing to happen and the lady apologised for not warning me about it first. i could tell how upset she was so i didn't go off at her.
she said she's never doing the test on babies again ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 7:29am
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Oh no! Poor Charli, poor you and poor nurse!
I hope they heal up quickly and that there are no scars or infections. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 7:31am
Oh my gosh Vanessa, thats awful. You poor things 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 7:39am
Oh poor you and baby Charli, at least she wont remember..Goodluck with the test ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 11:06am
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Poor Charlie thats not nice at all ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 11:12am
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That'd be the last thing you'd expect to have happen! That's horrible, Vanessa - must've been a fright. You poor wee things... I don't blame you for not doing the sweat test again. Must be another way to get the girl sweating, eh... especially in heat like we've been having! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 1:20pm
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Hugs Vanessa and Charli - that sounds awful! It is so hard to watch our wee ones go thru yucky stuff like that and I remember when it took them an hour to get an IV line in Sienna with her blue from screaming thinking "why are we doing this?" But I guess the only positive is that you will have some peace of mind that she doesn't have CF. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 6:15pm
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Hi vanessa - I have managed to find my way around the forums to find this, so I now know what a sweat test is - that's awful!! Hopefully things are getting better ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 8:11pm
the burns are looking different today. instead of a red colour they are white so i'm assuming they are healing...? ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 23 February 2007 at 9:03pm
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I'm not sure about how burns heal...?? I guess that as long as its not oozing it should be OK ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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