Month: October 2008

• You Can Pick Your Friends and You Can Pick Your Nose

  Samantha now has a PICC line. It’s a catheter that runs up to the entrance of her superior vena cava down her arm and out like the tip of an IV line. When your getting a lot of IV meds and blood draws, it kind of makes sense. They can just come up to the…

  Hschichie

  October 25, 2008

  The Samantha Years

• I Now Have a Reputation

  So, when you’ve spent WEEKS in Children’s, you learn the ins and outs. You learn that it really is ok to question the docs, disagree with protocol and push back. I’ve been pushing back. Nothing extreme….I’ve insisted we get Infectious Disease involved. I make lists and ask for follow up…we’re running the business of getting…

  Hschichie

  October 24, 2008

  The Samantha Years

• Fine, I’ll guess we’ll stay a while

  So, we almost made it a year without any unplanned hospital stays….. We’re at Children’s this week. Samantha is fighting an infection but we haven’t been able to find the source. She’s been in a lot of pain and spent yesterday with a 104 degree fever. Last night took us from our ‘penthouse’ on the…

  Hschichie

  October 23, 2008

  The Samantha Years