Month: April 2009

• The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous

  We are waiting to go home. We have been waiting since Wednesday. On Wednesday we found out that Samantha’s infection is sensitive to an I.V. anitbiotic. I.V. antibiotics are not our choice but we can go home on them with a PIC line. “So let’s do a PIC.” I say on Wednesday. “We can schedule…

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  April 10, 2009

  The Samantha Years

• And…..we’re back…again

  I’ll tell ya. We need a fast-pass admittance into Children’s or something. A little green card that let’s us bypass all the piffle. Piffle is my new word for the day; it basically means crap. If I have to tell another admittance nurse Samantha’s history, that we don’t smoke, we don’t have pets and yes,…

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  April 5, 2009

  The Samantha Years

• Oh MRSA, MRSA, Me

  Ick-a-roo….such a nasty bug. So, it is confirmed that the critter who has taken residence in Sammers ear is MRSA. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we think we caught it early enough so that she doesn’t have to have a PIC line and she doesn’t have to go home on I.V.…

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  April 1, 2009

  The Samantha Years