Do I have anything to say?: Randomness

Friday, November 25, 2011

Randomness

Since I have managed to write some kind of post every day in November, I decided I shouldn't stop now. However, I can't think of much to write since I worked all day and just got to bed after kind of falling asleep on the couch. So, I thought I should "document" the silly dream that I had last night/this morning.

I should start with a little "back story"--yesterday I took care of this teenage patient that I have cared for for MONTHS. She was doing great, but this week got sick again. So, some of this will be meaningless to anyone who doesn't work in the hospital, but it's for me to remember ;) Anyway, she has a double lumen line meaning I had two places to put medications and fluids. She was getting TPN through one lumen and Dilaudid through the other. She also was getting FIVE IV antibiotics and received Albumin and IV Lasix during my shift. Some things could run with TPN, some with Dilaudid, some with neither, some with both, some ran for a long time, some ran for a short time...it really was as crazy as it sounds and I was thankful for my morning coffee because I had to use a lot of brain power first thing yesterday morning!

It should not come as a surprise, then, that there were IV antibiotics in my dream. Some how, I believe they were at my house and were not being given to my patient (I actually had an IV antibiotic dream a few weeks ago too...) So, I think the "gist" of my dream was to get them to where they needed to go. However, I took a turn somewhere and ended up in high school (maybe my high school, but it kind of seemed bigger and there may have been boys there). I was at my locker and started putting things in there and eventually my locker became a walk-in one and I started putting things from my locker into a shopping cart. Then, I couldn't find anything in my cart and thought I would be late to geometry when my book was no where to be found. I'm not sure I ever did find my book (and I don't think my IV antibiotics were still in my possession) but I did go to geometry with my grocery cart of papers and books. Surprisingly enough, I do think that this grocery cart in the classroom thing was actually "odd" in my dream as well as in real life ;)

I don't really remember the rest of it or how everything all fit together (or did not fit together). However, I did tell people at work that I gave so many IV antibiotics yesterday that they were in my dreams. I gave one less IV antibiotic today but had to fit in IV Zofran...hopefully tonight's dreams don't bring antibiotics on attack or anything crazy like that ;)

Good night :)

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Who's Who

Updated September 2013

I have one sister who is married and has two boys. "A" was born June 2009 and "I" was born March 2012. We are both really close to my parents and have lots of "family dinners".

I wrote a lot about my patients when I first started this blog. Some patients are still growing and thriving, and others have lost their battles.

My first foster placements lived with me from June 2010-September 2011. They were sisters who were 15 and almost 3 when they were placed with me and are now 18 and 5. I called M "the teen" and L "the little one". They live with their mom who still has many issues, but are doing well (ok) and I still have (not enough) contact with them.

My second foster placement came to me September 6, 2012. I call her Zoe and she turned 5 in April. She has cystic fibrosis and has been a patient on my floor at the hospital. The plan is still reunification.

Ivy is a 17-year-old whose mom died just before Thanksgiving. She has a Guardian, but is unable to live with him due to some family issues. She has no other family who is willing/able to take her. She moved in with me the beginning of February. She moved to a group home at the beginning of August as her needs were too great for me with my schedule and having another child with special needs.