The only person in the hospital

Originally written as a rough Draft and not published

I feel like the only person in this entire hospital -Draft

Written Oct 31, 2011 10:14pm by Amber Gannon Medina

It has been a long day at the hospital. I can start to understand where my exhaustion comes from. We arrived at the hospital today and were greeted with a fairly happy Mira! I arrived right during her most favoritest part of the day-Oral Care! Sometimes its the only thing that really wakes her up, and today was no exception. Big eyes, smacking lips and then a nice happy pass out:)

The part of difficult days that makes them so exhausting is that out of nowhere we were told Mira needed to have the lines she had administered at a day old needed to be changed out. I am finding that you need to be prepared for these kind of surprises at any time. And I have to admit that scares me-this whole thing is so unpredicable and unsure. It can feel so precarious.

We could not be in the room for the procedure, and once we came back for an update, were told it would take 15 more minutes. After an hour, we stuck our heads back in and discovered they had been able to get one of the lines in, but after several "tries" had failed with the other.

Poor Mira. They had stuck her hand and her arm and she was pretty beat up and bloody.