Hunter did very well for the echo and we DIDN"T have to sedate him!!!! WOO HOO!!! we just brought the portable DVD player and a new movie of Toopie and Bino. He didn't move really at all.. They got all the pictures in about 15 minutes and even the ECG was done too.... I am so thankful for the DVD player.. ( Did I tell you have much we had to argue ( fight ) to get them to do the echo non-sedated!!!) HE ROCKED THAT ECHO!!!!! PERFECT KID!!!
The blood work was ok, if you can ever say that. And the X-ray was anything but fun. Hunter screamed " All done mommy, Please all done " talk about break you heart. Good thing it didn't really take long.
Then we had to go to cath " teaching" whatever... I can see if you have never had one before... but please, talk about a waste of time.
Gerry asked "can we just sign the consent form and go home??" , "Hunter has had Caths before and we understand what is involved."
that nurse was so ignorant..... " are you refusing teaching?"
"ummmmmm ..... no we aren't refusing it... we are just not in need of it..."
Sooooo .. After a couple of eye rolls ( by the nurse, not me!!!--- surprised!!!) she said... Well the doctor is waiting....
seriously..... we only waited for almost an hour..( mean while we got everything else done in an hour ) .. FINE...
They don't realize, I just wanted to get out this germ filled placed. People coughing everywhere and not covering their mouths ( PET PEEVE!!!) and with Hunter having the cath on monday, my goal, was to get him home without picking anything up!!
So I went in, signed papers.... and we left.... A WHOLE 5 MINTUES... and a few of them( mintues that is...lol) were spent looking for the time for the cath on Monday.. ( which we are first....... YEAH!!!! we need to be there at 7 am... although it won't probably start until 8- 8:30 am..)
That was really fun, after that was all said and done, the nurse comes in and says.... " blah, blah ......... and after the cath on monday someone will teach you how to take care of the wound and blah, blah..... " ( I replaced her boring conversation with blah, blah... )
ok..... so why are you teaching today ... and then on monday???? what a waste of time people... Or more so what a waste of money in the health care field... no wonder our health care is so frigg'n expensive people...!!!
That felt better....... ( although I deleted most of my post...lol)
So now for a great weekend, with great weather... and then the fun day on Monday ( cath day ).
But, as I said to the doctor today " It isn't like we have a choice... He must have this cath to go on in the surgeries... and he needs the fontan to get on with life.... so really there is no choice.." He didn't diagree with me... just tilted his head and smiled...
Please keep Hunter in you thoughts on Monday. I will try to update this blog from the Hospital, so keep an eye out on Monday.
And keep Gavin in your thoughts too ( he gets his fontan on Wednesday ) GOOD LUCK BUDDY!!!
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