Last Saturday as I was about to go to bed, I checked on my 15 year old and noticed that she didn't look right. She got up, staggered down stairs and plopped on the sofa, definitely not her usual hyper self at all. Then she said her head hurt in the back and she felt dizzy. She went into the bathroom and sat down. I felt her forehead and she felt hot and sweaty and she was seemed kind of lethargic. My first thought was meningitis or something, so off to the ER we went.
Thankfully, it wasn't meningitis but for some reason, I thought about how she was acting after the Toradol kicked in that the nurse added to her IV. She was laying on the gurney so I said, "How do you feel?" She looked at me and said, "I feel fabulous." Fabulous, really, lying on a gurney in the ER at 11 p.m. at night? Yeah, that was definitely the Toradol. That was on the beginning of it. She was clearly high off the medicine. She was talking a mile a minute and moving around a lot. Even the registration lady whispered to me, "Does she always talk like that?" I just laughed and said "No, I think its the Toradol."
Needless to say, I was relieved that the doctor felt maybe she just had a mild virus since all of her tests came back normal.
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