I did call the eye doctor who is doing his eye probing procedure and told her my story. She reassured me that she does this a lot at the location we're scheduled at, and that they do have a pediatric anesthesiologist. She also suggested that I take him to the pediatrician to get an accurate weight and measurement (although, I think she was just trying to put my mind at ease with this). She then called the place where they did the pre-admission testing to tell them my beef. They later called and apologized, but that's not what I was looking for. I was just looking for competence.
On a side note, something is up with our little guy tonight. He's been up several times already tonight, crying. Its a little unusual. I'm glad we have the appointment tomorrow morning at the ped's to check him out. I'm restless tonight as well. We'll see if anyone sleeps tonight.
Showing posts with label B's eye surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B's eye surgery. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
No Confidence
So, the month of March hasn't been kind to this family in the area of health. Both boys have had a stomach virus and now a bad cough and runny nose w/ fever. I keep asking myself, what am I supposed to learn in all of this. I think it is to love being at home. But I haven't learned that yet. I'm still stir crazy and yesterday drug out my poor sweet sicky B to pick up Q from school and then went to Chick-fil-a. It was a good thing I did, cause I ran into some bible study ladies. That was a nice surprise. Anywhoo...
B is scheduled for his eye surgery (if you can even call it that, I don't think there's any cutting involved)thing on Wednesday April 1st. I had to take him for some pre-admission testing today. I got there sorta on time, and signed in and 50min. later, got called back for his "testing".
The nurse looks at him and says, "Oh gosh, how are we going to weigh him?"
I shrug and tell her they usually have a baby scale. So she tears a peice of paper of the exam table and tells me to have him sit on the adult scale on the floor. I in turn ask if she wants him naked, with no diaper. (cause isn't how they normally weigh a little one?), she looked confused. She's like "I'm just filling in, the pediatric nurse practitioner will be in in a minute." But still she weighed him and took off 9oz for clothes and a diaper. Whatever.
Whatever, no! Isn't it important that they know how much he weighs for real? My confidence level of this hospital doing this thing, as minor as it is, is dwindling.
Then the real NP walks in. But only after the first one asked me how we're going to measure him. And I say, "well, they usually lay him on the table and mark the paper at his head and heal." "Oh, good idea." she replies.
Peds Nurse says, "I think she picked up the wrong chart..., then she fills me in on some of the details, after she tells me 'ear tubes are really no big deal'. I said, "NO, not ear tubes, eye probing..." Confidence further dwindling.
So, Peds nurse continues with the "testing" which consisted of her listening to his lungs and heart and half heartily pressing on his belly while I was holding him. Then she said, "This room doesn't have an ear light, so I won't check his ears. " ordinarily, I'd be fine with that, but he's been sick with a bad cold, and I sorta wanted to know what was going on in there. But whatever, I let it slide.
The first NP walked in with a tape measure, and measures the marks she made on the paper and declared them to be 28". I said, "No, that cannot be right. I know he was that long in January and I KNOW he's bigger than that." Sure enough she measure again, and it was 29.5". And I'm sure that its not important, but WTH people, do you have any idea what you're doing?
So after the "testing" is over, Peds nurse tells me that he can't eat or drink past midnight, but there's eceptions for babies this young...but still no milk after midnight, and I asked about breast milk knowing it doesn't qualify as milk. She looks at me dumbfounded and refers me to a paper of instructions which I already looked at and doesn't mention breast milk. She told me to ask the nurse who will call me the afternoon before the surgery. Further dwindling confidence that this place has no clue, and it makes me nervous.
I have several friends who used the same place for their babies minor things, like ear tubes. But, that's not making me feel any better. Heck, I had a surgery there and came out fine...
So, I came home and called the doctor who's doing the surgery to ask some questions and am waiting for a call back. I know its probably nothing, but its something I can't ignore.
So we shall see.
B is scheduled for his eye surgery (if you can even call it that, I don't think there's any cutting involved)thing on Wednesday April 1st. I had to take him for some pre-admission testing today. I got there sorta on time, and signed in and 50min. later, got called back for his "testing".
The nurse looks at him and says, "Oh gosh, how are we going to weigh him?"
I shrug and tell her they usually have a baby scale. So she tears a peice of paper of the exam table and tells me to have him sit on the adult scale on the floor. I in turn ask if she wants him naked, with no diaper. (cause isn't how they normally weigh a little one?), she looked confused. She's like "I'm just filling in, the pediatric nurse practitioner will be in in a minute." But still she weighed him and took off 9oz for clothes and a diaper. Whatever.
Whatever, no! Isn't it important that they know how much he weighs for real? My confidence level of this hospital doing this thing, as minor as it is, is dwindling.
Then the real NP walks in. But only after the first one asked me how we're going to measure him. And I say, "well, they usually lay him on the table and mark the paper at his head and heal." "Oh, good idea." she replies.
Peds Nurse says, "I think she picked up the wrong chart..., then she fills me in on some of the details, after she tells me 'ear tubes are really no big deal'. I said, "NO, not ear tubes, eye probing..." Confidence further dwindling.
So, Peds nurse continues with the "testing" which consisted of her listening to his lungs and heart and half heartily pressing on his belly while I was holding him. Then she said, "This room doesn't have an ear light, so I won't check his ears. " ordinarily, I'd be fine with that, but he's been sick with a bad cold, and I sorta wanted to know what was going on in there. But whatever, I let it slide.
The first NP walked in with a tape measure, and measures the marks she made on the paper and declared them to be 28". I said, "No, that cannot be right. I know he was that long in January and I KNOW he's bigger than that." Sure enough she measure again, and it was 29.5". And I'm sure that its not important, but WTH people, do you have any idea what you're doing?
So after the "testing" is over, Peds nurse tells me that he can't eat or drink past midnight, but there's eceptions for babies this young...but still no milk after midnight, and I asked about breast milk knowing it doesn't qualify as milk. She looks at me dumbfounded and refers me to a paper of instructions which I already looked at and doesn't mention breast milk. She told me to ask the nurse who will call me the afternoon before the surgery. Further dwindling confidence that this place has no clue, and it makes me nervous.
I have several friends who used the same place for their babies minor things, like ear tubes. But, that's not making me feel any better. Heck, I had a surgery there and came out fine...
So, I came home and called the doctor who's doing the surgery to ask some questions and am waiting for a call back. I know its probably nothing, but its something I can't ignore.
So we shall see.
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