Alls Quiet (FINALLY) on 6 West

We had a ROUGH night last night. Little Pom was (sorry for the TMI) really constipated & in a lot of pain. He kept crying & begging for lidocaine for his "privates"....which would've done nothing, but it's all he knew from last time. Pain in the pelvis=lidocaine on the privates. He had a fever too and was crying, shaking, teeth chattering....awful! The night nurse (whom I'm pretty sure was a few bulbs short a chandelier) was FIXATED on the lidocaine and kept asking me to describe it....explain where we got it...tell what we used it for...explain who prescribed it....over & over again. THen, she'd go and ask the doctor on call for more of it, even though it would do NOTHING for the type of pain he was currently experiencing. Seriously. You paid a fortune for Nursing School. Don't take your medical advice from an eight year old. Eventually we got a tylenol into LP and he settled down. Except the alarm on the PD system kept going off, pretty much every 10 minutes, all night long. So, it would wake the boy up. I'd get up and re-set it. We'd both drift off to sleep and.....super-crazy-loud beeps again. We eventually fell asleep around 4 am. Which was when Nurse Chandelier decided to wake him up & give him some medication. He & I are both sooooooo overtired today and I'm concerned that tomorrow night isn't going to be any easier. Ugh. On the bright side, I found an AWESOME bed for Little Pom that keeps him at a decent height for the PD to drain at night *and* has tons of storage space for all the bags of solution & other supplies we need. Check it out:



Update on Bubbles:

Bubbles is out of ICU and back with us. It breaks my heart though, because one of the nurses mentioned off-hand that she thinks he thinks he's going home with us. I've been here for four days and have yet to see ANYONE from his family. Although we do get some indications of what home might be like, when he shakes his fist and us and mimics muttering under his breath when he's annoyed with someone. We gave him two stuffed puppies and he spends equal amounts of time cuddling them & making them fight with each other. Oh, and apparently he had quite a blue vocabulary when he got here. I wish we could take him home. I think that we'll do our best to stay in touch with him though, because we can call the hospital after we leave & if he's here, come and visit. We can't keep him, but we can try really hard to show him that someone cares about him....other than the medical staff, who dote on him whenever they have the time. :-( As promised, here are some pics of our Bubbles:




(the colorful puppy by his shoulder is one we brought him)

Hopefully today should be fairly relaxed: meds, water and catching up on our sleep. LP is zonked right now and I want him to stay that way as long as possible. :-)