oh my...
I am reading that it is infecting 300,000 a year..and the NAP1 strain is only getting more drug resistant.
It’s at epidemic proportions..
I actually was not aware of this until you told me your story..
My daughter had an episode yesterday (while I was in a neighboring town shopping) which alarmed my (nurse) sister because she thought it might by hypovolemic shock. I looked up the symptoms of hypovolemic shock and it sounds a lot like what Tabitha described. But it didn’t make sense with my husband’s description that he thought there were just flecks of blood in the mucus. But Tabitha is feeling better and awake now and I had her describe the whole thing, and the toilet water was all red and the mucus was like chunks of meat. But she had had 2 red slushies earlier in the day and they thought the red was the food dye from that and not blood.
If it was actually blood it would explain the almost passing out, excessive sweating, fever, blue fingernails, and the feeling of impending death. Between blood loss and dehydration it could have been hypovolemic shock. What doesn’t make sense is that she got better instead of worse. She’s acting fine now though still having the liquid stools. We compared timelines and realized that we were both praying for her when she started feeling better. She had called me while I was at the craft store, crying because she was in pain. We’d hung up because she had to get to the toilet, and I cried and prayed through the rest of my shopping knowing my husband would be back soon to tend her. I called him a bit later and was told she had almost passed out and was white as a ghost but was sleeping peacefully at the time. So I cried and prayed some more.
I need to know when it’s time to go to the ER.
We had torrential rain last week. The window well of the egress window in the boys’ bedroom filled with water and the window opening itself wasn’t sealed adequately so almost the whole carpet in there was sopping wet. There had apparently been similar leakage before because when I went to try to dry out the carpet there was mold on the carpet. So I’ve been pulling that carpet up. I had a bad cold and a 24-hour flu bug that wiped me out for a couple days also so it’s been a very, very rough week all the way around. I don’t understand what happened yesterday, I’m scared for her and confused about what to do, and while I’m trying to figure out where we’re at and what we need to do I’m watching urgent stuff piling up that I need to do while also feeling like I need to keep very close watch over her.