Thursday at PCH

Today we had one of the nurses Colton had yesterday. The Dr.'s wrote very proactive orders. Unfortunately the nurses are really busy chatting and don't seem to get around to being as proactive as the Dr.'s have requested. Irritating? HECK YES!!! Colton should have a feeding tube by now! He might even be on a conventional ventilator. Instead he is staying the same... because no one has gotten around to doing anything about his AMAZING lab values!

His night shift nurse was really irritating when she first came on shift. She seemed to feel the need to repeatedly remind us just how sick he is. She also thinks that repeating over and over that he will be here "FOR WEEKS" is somehow beneficial to our psyche.. NOT SO MUCH!!! We do understand that he is sick but seriously... he can hear her! We don't want him to know! ;o)
Really.. we just want to rejoice in every little step. We are realistic about how long he will be here and we really don't need anyone to kill our buzz! The night nurse also seemed SCARED of him when she got here... describing him as "unstable" and refusing to even move him inches without the respiratory therapist holding her hand. She has turned out to be fairly nice but definitely OCD in an annoying sort of way. She also told me that "on night shift they try not to make any changes because they don't have the hands [number of staff] to fix things." She than proceeded to point out that it's a holiday and lots of traumas will be coming in and with the weekend coming ..... blah blah blah. I'm just thinking "seriously lady... did you just say that if we wanted proactive care we should have come NEXT WEEK?!?!?! " So she is definitely not my favorite person and unfortunately she will be back tomorrow. If she doesn't get proactive I'll fire her! (Well.. not on this shift but I will tell the charge nurse on days that we do not want her taking care of our baby!)

The moral of the story. Colton is still in "critical" condition. He has made amazing improvement in the last 24 hours. And contrary to Bad Vibes Betty's beliefs... he is getting better. Well nurse Betty... I'll take slowly but surely over NEVER anyday!