Thursday, February 23, 2012

An Afternoon in the Hospital

I've been jotting down what's happening here since lunch today just to give you an idea. Please excuse the punctuation and brevity, but I was trying to get her to sleep as I did this. Also, keep in mind that today didn't seem so bad with interruptions, etc because the oxygen machine rarely went off. It usually goes off 40+ times per day and even more at night.

12:30 lunch
1:00 nurse in to check vitals
1:30 asleep
2:00 breathing treatment (wakes up)
2:25 back to sleep
2:35 housekeeping (wakes up)
2:37 back to sleep
2:40 nurse comes in to ask how she ate (wakes up)
2:45 back to sleep
2:48 machine beeps and beeps (wakes up)
2:50 dozes off
2:55 wakes up for diaper change
Toss and turn and fight going to sleep for 45 min bc she's s exhausted.
3:45 fall asleep
3:55 delivery of balloons and teddy bear (so worth her waking up for. Look on her face was priceless!) THANK YOU JENN!!!
Gave up on sleep and decided to color and play until dinner
4:45 nurse checks vitals
5:00 breathing treatment
5:15 medicine and dinner
6:15 sleep
6:25 call nurse to give her a little oxygen (she wakes)
6:30 back to sleep
7:30 nasal cannula out so ox levels dip. Wake her to put back in.
7:35 back to sleep
7:40 breathing treatment (with LOUD nurse whose pager goes off in the 2 min it takes her to hook up treatment)
7:45 back to sleep
7:50 loud nurse back in to remove treatment (wakes up)
7:55 back to sleep

And, that brings us to now. Could this be why we're so tired?!? ;)

Good night!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like we need to hit the LOUD nurse!!! Nobody ever gets rest in the hospital but you would think they would maybe be a tiny bit easier on a baby. Maybe you need a DO NOT DISTURB---THIS MEANS YOU!!! sign. Praying this will be your last night. I love you!!

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  2. WOW! That is exhausting! Hoping today brings the good news that will allow you to go home!

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