FIRSTPERSON: Bailey White shares her experiences bringing her son to the Janeway Children's Heath and Rehabilitation Centre in St. John's as respiratory illness spike.
Bailey White's son, 17 months, at the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre emergency room in St. John's.
"More than 40 breaths a minute," I tell the nurse. The 811 nurse we spoke to on the phone earlier that night said if our son took more than 40 a minute to see a doctor right away. We counted 44.I'm still unsure if we need to be at the hospital. But the nurse shrugs and says, "Let's get you triaged. Take off his coat so we can check his vitals."We take a seat in the waiting room facing a Peter Pan mural. Thomas the Tank Engine is on TV.
Now, watching his little belly heave under his dinosaur pyjamas, we fear he has respiratory syncytial virus — RSV. Or pneumonia. Perhaps bronchitis. We've never seen him like this. His mother tells his father that it shouldn't be much longer. There aren't many children left who've been here as long as them.
We have another bottle of Tylenol at home — one my mother saw in Wabush when she was there a few months ago. She bought it because she knew there was a shortage.The man sitting next to me has a daughter who's had a fever for many days. He calls his wife to say that there are signs warning only one parent is allowed in the waiting room, but after the day they've had and everything they've been through, she should just come in anyway.
But on this Saturday night, there are a dozen or more kids waiting to be seen. Is it just a bad cold-and-flu season, compounded by staff shortages and the pandemic? Or has something changed?
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