Holy SHIT Cindy, that is beyond unacceptable.

So I guess it is no longer the weekend, and I'm expected to work again. This is a very worrying trend.

Dana, same.

Traffic was so great today, though -- I mean, I walked, but then I drove a couple trips through Cambridge, so I got the benefit of a kinda-holiday. I took one resident to get a flu shot (she was out the day they had in-house inoculation) at CVS, and then another two of them on a shopping trip to Star Market, so it was a low-stress 'off' day.

Tomorrow I drive a busload to see foliage. I may just head towards New Hampshire until someone stops me...

Flu shot! That's what I should have done today! But I already had my excursion out of the house.

Oh, Cindy, I am incandescent with rage on your behalf also! Do NOT let this go. Whenever you can drag it up from the basement. Whoever wrote that prescription is either badly misinformed or deadly careless.

The same thing happened to me after my second surgery on my ankle -- the doctor put me on three times the dosage of blood thinner I should have gotten (Xarelto), and I got my period, and the floodgates opened and wouldn't close. I almost bled to death. After I collapsed in the bathroom and went to the ER, they admitted me and gave me three blood transfusions. When I finally got to talk to the doctor who wrote the prescription, she blamed it on someone else and refused to talk to me about it. I still feel like I should have done something.

I hope your son has no lingering ill effects from this! My experience, fwiw, is that when the drug is discontinued and the hemorrhaging is stopped, and the lost blood is replaced, the body does recover quickly.

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Timelies all!

We had the day off, but there was PEP, so Gary dropped him off and picked him up. Silly boy got a bead in his ear(whether he did it, or one of his classmates did, we don't know) so we spent most of the afternoon in Pediatric Urgent Care, waiting for a doctor. It's out now, but that wasn't how we wanted to spend our day off. I guess this is a ritual of passage for parents...

Thanks, Zenkitty and everybody else, too.

Chris is doing pretty well today. I think they're going to send him home tomorrow (if eating continues all right today and we're comfortable with him coming home).

He had yogurt, and soup and crackers while I was there. He has to add one "new" food at a time.

Talked to the surgeon. The plan right now is to send him home without the blood thinners. He's pretty ambulatory, so we'll fight clots the old fashioned way, by moving around a lot.

Oh, Cindy, I am incandescent with rage on your behalf also! Do NOT let this go. Whenever you can drag it up from the basement. Whoever wrote that prescription is either badly misinformed or deadly careless.

I talked through the whole sequence of eff up events with the surgeon today and with the charge nurse. They've instituted a unit-wide review, because not only were there failures, the fail-safes failed too.

I figure that after my son is home and we've breathed for a few days, I'll request a copy of his medical record, ask his hometown pediatrician to do the same, and go from there.

The same thing happened to me after my second surgery on my ankle -- the doctor put me on three times the dosage of blood thinner I should have gotten (Xarelto), and I got my period, and the floodgates opened and wouldn't close. I almost bled to death. After I collapsed in the bathroom and went to the ER, they admitted me and gave me three blood transfusions. When I finally got to talk to the doctor who wrote the prescription, she blamed it on someone else and refused to talk to me about it. I still feel like I should have done something.

So fricking scary.

I hope your son has no lingering ill effects from this! My experience, fwiw, is that when the drug is discontinued and the hemorrhaging is stopped, and the lost blood is replaced, the body does recover quickly.

I hope so. I think so.

He got two bags of blood on Friday and two on Saturday. His hematocrit and hemoglobin are just shy of the low-side of normal now. We took a good long walk around the floor and he was steady and walking pretty upright (which is good considering the extent of the surgery he had)

The surgeon said the blood thinner OD won't affect him healing at the surgery site, which was another thing we we worried about.

Cindy. I am simply inarticulate with rage over this. I'm very glad to hear your son is recovering well after his treatment...lapse. I await the unleashing of maternal rage on those responsible, and want you to know I have your back in any practical or emotional way possible.

If one can wish peace and recovery *and* swift retribution at the same time, well, I do.