Thursday, January 17th, 2008

UGHHHHHH! This hospital frustrates me! I went back up to the hospital to see Ian last night before i went to bed. His oscillator settings were almost doubled, his Pain meds were increased, his blood pressure was sky high and he had an arterial line in. I had only been gone a few hours! They never called me to say he was declining, never asked to place an arterial line, nothing! I asked the nurse what was new, and she said nothing, he was fine. So, i asked for a Dr. or NP. The NP informed me that the alveoli in his left lung had collapsed and they had to increase the setting to open them back up. The nurse kept saying that his blood pressure was only high due to her messing with him... but i was there for hours and it stayed high the whole time. The nurse also never put gloves on to mess with him again. When she went to lunch, i asked for the charge nurse, but the other nurse wouldn't get her for me and said she'd take care of it herself. Whatever! I was afraid to leave because the nurse working with him seemed to blow everything off and was too busy chit chatting with others who wandered into his room. They also wouldn't turn him off of his right side due to "leaving his left side up will open that lung"... so this morning, the left lung is better and now the right lung's aveoli are collapsed. His blood pressure is still on the high side of normal but nothing like it was early this am. I came home to sleep a few hours but kept waking up and just couldn't really get alot of sleep so i went back to the hospital. I will have to admit, he had a good nurse today, she was sweet and took good care of him. I did ask for the Director of Nursing today and spoke with her about my concerns with the other nurse from last night and requested she not work with Ian anymore. The DON said she cannot guarantee that. Whatever! I stressed to her that my main concern was that most of the staff including the dr's and surgeons weren't wearing gloves when touching Ian and he has been critically ill, has infections already, and has an incision with 2 new open stomas. I had placed a sign on his bed (colorful with stickers to not look so pissy) that said "Please don't make me sick, WEAR GLOVES". It was a gentle way to get my point across. Today, the sign is magically gone off of his bed and nowhere to be found. These people are really pissing me off. They are so stupid with the way they care for critically ill babies. I'm tired of repeating myself to them. From now on, when they reach in to care for my son without gloves, i will snap a photo, ask their name, stop them, and point them to the gloves. Maybe physical evidence of their lack of concern will scare them into wearing gloves and being careful with my baby. This stupid OU hospital is for the birds! I swear, when he is better enough to wear clothes, i'm buying tons of Orange and black OSU preemie clothes to keep him in until he's out of soonerville hospital LOL. (I'm not a sports fan, i could care less... It's just to make a point LOL).

So, as of now, his blood gasses are better and b/p is better and he's in the hands of a good nurse named Marsha, so I came home to relax for awhile and go back up later this evening.

Oh and on the upside!! He is much less swollen this afternoon than he was at 4am when i left. YEAH!