The Journey of James Weston

Sunday, January 1st, 2023 We got to the hospital around 1:20am. At this point, we only continued water in his G-tube at a rate of 40ml/hr to help with dehydration. The Children's ER was completely empty. All of the medical staff was super friendly being that they were working on the weekend and on New Year's. We got into a room immediately. James was weighed and Mom went over all of the medical history. He had to get an IV for admission. It was great that she got it on the first try but we weren't sure it was going to work because it took a very long time. James cried and had to be held down by Mom, Dad, and another nurse. She put the IV in his hand so she needed to tie restraint boards to his arms to prevent him from pulling it out. We were told we would get admitted into the PICU soon but it ended up taking until 5am. Mom and James tried to sleep on the ER bed while it was very cold. While Dad was busy getting work done because he had eaten an energy bar that just kicked ...