December
2007
Good News, Bad News5
Bad News: Woke up this morning to find Dorrie’s nurse for the day was one I had been dreading getting again since she had her once back in July. We rushed over to the hospital to find that after being on a scant 90 minutes she had already decided to change the oxygen regulator (1L – 100mL) to a different one (200mL – 25mL). Her explanation: Dorrie needed more oxygen than the first one was giving. When Bob pointed out the obvious (1L > 200mL) she stared at it for a second, said “oh” and then SUDDENLY changed her tune. “The other one wasn’t working right.”
Whatever, lady. I notice there were no further issues with it after we made you change it back.
I’d grabbed a few granola bars as we rushed out in the morning, so I spent the whole day in the ICN after Bob had to go to work.
Good News: Apparently Dr. New Guy (who I quite like) has had some kind of issue crop up, so instead of him being here at the end of this week, Dr. Optimist is coming back early. Yay! We had several questions for Dr. Optimist and I’m glad that we’ll be able to deal with them before next week.
Gah! Is there no place you can go to complain about this moron? The patient’s family should not be required to essentially be /managing/ the staff!
(December 27th, 2007 at 8:17 AM)
I found you via preemie blog moms-welcome! Dorrie is just beautiful. It sounds like you’ve really got your hands full with how the hospital you’re in operates. That is really too bad. I sure hope that Dorrie makes it home to you soon!
(December 27th, 2007 at 2:10 PM)
Bob talked to the charge nurse before he left. He phrased it as a complaint about getting nurses who haven’t had Dorrie ever or for months… it seems like this is something we have to remind them about every little while.
(December 28th, 2007 at 1:12 AM)
I’m hoping we get home soon too. We’ve been here too long — for us, for the hospital and definitely for poor Dorrie.
(December 28th, 2007 at 1:51 AM)
I had to be sort of circumspect when I spoke to the charge nurse Wednesday, because the nurse in question was standing right there listening. But they tried to assign the same nurse to Dorrie on Friday, so I ended up talking to the charge nurse again (a different one this time), over the phone this time, and I made it explicit and clear that we did not want this particular nurse again, and why.
(December 29th, 2007 at 3:16 PM)