Xander ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It really does surprise me how many different staff configurations you get at the hospital, given you're pretty much there at the same time each week, right? Is it because it's a shift that people don't want? Or do ERs not have the kind of regular weekly schedules that jobs like mine have?
I am still not at the part yet where this isn't a v. generous gift of e-readers to everyone...
I don't even know what that means. (I mean, I do now that I've googled.)
I just got this case for my new iPhone: [link] and it is so purty. Every time I use my phone, I feel like petting it. It was pricey, but I tend to knock things around, so a good case was called for.
Kat, if it's not the wrong (and never right) time to ask, what are the goals of this procedure specifically?
Each time it's a larynoscopy and bronchoscopy. So technically it is just to look. But they are checking the size of the opening. Doc also either dilates or lasers scar tissue. Ultimately we hope for decannulation. Sigh. I would like for this to be a faster process but oh well.
Better slow but done well, right? Still, ugh.
I totally agree. Except we do this every 8-10 weeks and we have been doing it for two years now. As Grace gets older it gets harder because she is more aware and she gets way more upset.
Yeah, that sounds terrible for everyone.
The fun part is Grace is totally princess of the procedures unit. They love her as does admitting. Today there was a crowd in her room watching her play a game on the iPad.
Poor noodle. I was in and out of hospitals constantly at that age until I was about 8, and I remember it getting easier when I got to an age where the gross medical stuff started to get interesting. (And by the time I was 6 I had mastered the art of riding my IV pole as a scooter down the halls, which the nurses loved...good times, good times!)
Found out why people gripe so much about paying for their kids' dentistry. I'm stepping in to pick up the tab for the work my mom's getting done this week, and the only things I've ever paid more for had seatbelts.
It'll probably have a good effect on my own dental health though, as I'm unlikely to chip any teeth on the ramen noodles I'll be eating for the next couple of years.