Irritated with Cardiologists

Lynnea has had a cough that I have been a bit concerned about since we left the hospital last Wednesday (yes, I voiced my concerns about it before we were discharged, and I was told that she was fine). Last night her cough seemed to get noticeably worse, and she was up a bunch during the night coughing. This morning she had a scheduled visit with Dr. Gruenstein at the U of M, so I brought up my concerns about her cough to him. When he checked her blood-oxygen saturations, they were low, and her blood pressure was low. He thought that there was a chance that she has influenza, so he prescribed something to treat it, and told us to go see our pediatrician. So, we managed to get an appointment this afternoon with one of the pediatricians in Elk River. While we were there, Lynnea's saturations were even lower than they were this morning. The pediatrician ordered a chest X-ray, and ran cultures for both Strep throat, and influenza. Her chest X-ray looked fine, and both cultures came back negative, but because of her low saturations, she called the U, and Dr. Gruenstein thought that she should be admitted to the hospital. This is a bit frustrating because he could have just admitted us in the first place instead of making us drive down here twice. Since we've been down here Lynnea's saturations dipped very low (into the low 50's) and she screamed for an hour and a half before finally falling asleep because she was exhausted. They put her on oxygen and are watching her overnight to see how she does. Dr. Martin is the cardiologist that was on duty when we arrived, and we're still trying to convince him that Lynnea is not well. He's not one of my favorite doctors, and this isn't the first time that I've had to argue with him about the fact that Lynnea is indeed not OK. Fortunately, he's not the one that will be around tomorrow morning, so we'll see what happens then. Oh, for now Lynnea's surgery that had been scheduled for next Tuesday is on hold. Obviously, I will post more news on that as soon as I hear what the plan is for her.