Death Water!

June 12,2008: My poor parents! They had a scare of their lives today. With Jade being as fussy as she has been for the last week and especially yesterday (which the fussiness continued throughout the night. She hardly slept and neither did we) my parents offered to keep Jade overnight so that we could get some sleep. We were estatic. So we dropped her off at Grandma and Grandpa Gunns house for the night and headed back up to West Jordan in time for Aaron to play his men's softball game. Aaron is on a team with his brothers and my brothers and some old friends. They won and we went out to dinner to celebrate. While we were eating at Goodwood with Jen, Jeremy, Ethan, Boston, Austin, Hudson, Aaron and myself, we got a phone call from my parents. My dad started the conversation by saying, "We are at the ER with Jade but don't worry, everything is fine." Come to find out, Jade had aspirated on some Gripe Water (Gripe Water is a home remedy made up of fennel and licorice juice. It is meant to help babies with colic and stomach gas. My aunt Chickie recommended it to my parents after my mom told her that Jade cries a lot for no reason and that she kicks her legs and screams a lot. Chickie said that she gives it to all of her grandkids and it immediately helps. My parents had bought some about a week back and it seemed to help her)that grandma had given her and started to turn blue. She wouldn't breathe so my parents rushed her to Timpanogos Hospital, just down the street. By the time they got there she had started to breathe again. However they decided to have her checked out. Dad called me right after the doctor had examined her and decided she needed to have a chest xray done. I asked my dad if we should rush down there and he said to wait. She was doing well and they would just wait for the results of the xray and then call us back. He did call us back but by then we were on our way down to Orem. We had decided to go down anyways and make sure she was alright. My dad said that the xrays had come back and that it looked like she might have aspirated some of the gripe water and that the doctor wanted to either send her up to Primary Children's Hospital via an ambulance or send her to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center via POV to be admitted for observation. We got there and Jade was sleeping on the stretcher hooked up to the monitors. She looked great but the doctor was really uncomfortable with her going home. So instead of paying for an ambulance fee we decided to take Jade to the ER at UVRMC ourselves. By this time it was around 11:00pm. When we got to UVRMC the ER doctor examined her and felt like our coming to the ER was a waste of time. Jade was breathing well, her oxygen sats were normal and therefore there was no reason to admit her for observation. So he sent us home. Needless to say my parents didn't end up babysitting her for the night. We took Jade home and watched her really carefully. I kept getting up and checking on her to make sure she was breathing well. So instead of getting a good nights sleep I hardly slept at all that night. The only one that really slept well was Jade. She was exhausted after her long night in the ER. Since then we have stopped giving Jade "Death Water" and my parents won't even go near a syringe or even be in the same room if I have to give medicine to Jade via a syringe. They are scarred for life!