Mom is very happy to be home from the hospital. But like I mentioned before, she will need IV antibiotics for a minimum of 6 weeks. So last night a group of us got a lesson in flushing and hooking up her meds. It is amazing how far medical technology has come. That large pearl-looking ball clipped to Mom's pj's is the medicine. The ball is pressurized and will release the meds over the proper amount of time. She has a 1 hour dose every morning and another 1 hour dose and a 1.5 hour dose at night. She will have a nurse coming once a week to change her port, so we wont have to mess with that.
Dad got to do the actual work last night while the rest of us watched and took mental notes. If you know my Dad very well then you know he is very squeamish around blood. Just pushing the saline flush into Mom's port last night Dad was saying he was going to pass out. But he pulled thru with flying colors!
"Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes." ~Author Unknown
Dad got to do the actual work last night while the rest of us watched and took mental notes. If you know my Dad very well then you know he is very squeamish around blood. Just pushing the saline flush into Mom's port last night Dad was saying he was going to pass out. But he pulled thru with flying colors!
3 comments:
Your mom is so cute! My sister had the same kind of "flush the port have an iv and a nurse come to the house" when she was pregnant with her last baby because she was so sick. She asked if I would come help her and I puked and almost passed out doing it! I think me and your dad are alike there!!
I love your quote of the day! And I love the fact that you brought your camera over with you so you could blog this :)
i love this!!! you guys are such an amazing family!!!! give your mom a big hug/kiss from den and i!!!
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