Better sleeping last night, which is surprizing in light of how much she slept yesterday. Still alot of headache pain, senstivity to light and sound. Seems we have to reorient every shift to enter the room quietly and use hushed tones. And the monitors. I still do not understand why the monitors alarm in the room. If the nurse is in the room, they can see the visual monitors, and if they are in the hall, the monitors alarm there. So why the alarms in the room? To annoy the patient and/or anyone else trying to sleep or be at peace? 99% of the time they are insignificant anyway.
Don't get me wrong, that 1% of the time is a lifesaver. But the alarms should go off in the hall and to the nurses pagers. Not in the room. Particularly, for a patient with light and noise sensitivity.
She has had a Foley catheter in since Friday and is dying to get it out. I think they put it off as she is not fully mobile, is sedated, and because she has been putting out more than she has been taking in (IV & orally). Hopefully that will happen today. They are also putting her on a PCA for pain. That is where you push a botton every time you are in pain and it gives you a small dose. You can do it repeatedly, but it is capped so you cannot overdose. It helps them gauge how much is enough, and also empowers the patient. There is probably a little placebo effect going on too.
We may go back to 7 west today, need to wait and see.
Dr. Storm came in last night. In civies! Not used to seeing him out of scrubs. No real new information, he was just checking in.
Foley is out.
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Lauren,
ReplyDeleteOkay. This is my third attempt!!! I suck at technology. Anyway, I hope it works this time. I've dated Foley and he's awful. A terrible date. Stiff, unromantic and utterly embarrassing. Try to date other guys, okay? Also, we've been reading the blog faithfully and are by turns amazed, in awe, and utterly dumbstruck by your fortitude and stamina. You are a goddess. I keep imanging you this summer on the basketball court with your friends, sipping by turns on a cool drink from Dunkin' Donuts. You'll get there. I'll be thrilled to see you there.