Oxygen Level: Mid 20s
Oxygen Machine: CPAP
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Ahhhh....my nurses! There have been so many over the past 8 days in the hospital. I must take the time out to salute the most memorable ones, who have made this experience very....interesting, despite the circumstances.
On the Mission Stephanie: This nurse right here tried to get me to swallow pills. I told her I don't swallow pills and she went to get some pudding to help me out. She told me "Oh you're going to swallow pills today!". This was on Day 2. She had about 6 spoons in a cup and told me to turn around. She was going to put the pill in one of the spoonfuls of pudding, and I wouldn't know which one it was in. Now...for most people, pudding goes down in 1 gulp. For me...i chew pudding, so this wasn't going to work. Of course, I found the pill each and every time, and after 30 minutes of trying to swallow the pill, she realized it wasn't going to work, called the doctor to prescribe another pill, and kept it moving. Thank you so much Stephanie for your effort. I truly appreciate you!
The Gold Toothed Lady: I can't believe I forgot her name, but she was one of the SWEETEST nurses I had. She always came in looking fresh, and kept my water cup and orange juice supply full! LOL. Now the gold teeth....i dont know why she even had them! On her 2 front teeth to make it worse! The 1st day she was my nurse, she let me know that she talked really fast, and I assumed that I could keep up with her, but with the amount of medication that I had in my system, sometimes she really DID talk too fast! Once my family came to visit me and were in the room, she began to WHISPER fast. Who the hell does that? How the hell am I supposed to understand what you are saying?! All I kept doing was looking in her mouth and picking up the important words she said, and then rephrasing everything to make sure I understood what she was saying. Yes, I know she was probably whispering for privacy reasons, but boy oh boy am I glad her breath didn't stink because she came so close to me when she was whispering that she almost bit off one of my eyeballs! Thank you so much for being such a gentle nurse. For taking out my staples efficiently, and making the experience a lot better then I expected it to be. You were the bomb!
Tight Panty Pam: Oh Pam, how you were the entertainment for my sister, Carl, and I for many nights. I laughed so hard I was afraid to bust open my incision! Every night you came wobbling in like a duck with pants and panties that were TOO tight, and insisted on bending down to grab the trash out of the garbage, or anything else that was on the floor. We all were hoping that the next time you came in, your pants would be a little looser so that your backside would breathe, but each and every time...you failed us! You were also forgetful about the orange juice, but that wasn't our biggest problem with you...it truly was the pants. We were truly afraid that if you passed gas, you would blow a hole right through those bad boys! LOL. Thanks Pam for being such a good nurse. You were very understanding and a pleasure to talk to :-)
Tough Cookie Elaine: Oh Elaine, I had a love/hate relationship with you. I loved mostly everything about you except when you told me that because my blood pressure was too high and that I would not be able to see my son in the NICU because you didn't want me walking around. I know this was your caring side, your awesome nurse values, but honestly if i had the strength, I would've punched you right in between your eyeballs when you uttered those words to me! It was very hard being stuck in a room and knowing that I cannot leave because in order for me to go to the NICU, I would have to pass the Nurses Desk. You made me stay in my bed for 3 nights woman, and I didn't enjoy it, not one bit! But I do thank you for being good to me the rest of the time.
Last but certainly not least...
Mrs. Marva Brown: This is the lady that got me to swallow pills! Well...her and the cutest motivation under the sun (Noah)! For all the days I had been there, every nurse crushed up my pills for me. When Mrs. Marva came, she told me she isn't crushing any pills for me today. I said "what?", she said that she will cut them with a pill cutter into smaller pieces, but that I will need to go ahead and swallow them just like that. And that's exactly what she did. She cut each pill into 4 pieces, and I went ahead and swallowed each piece. The next time I had to take pills, she came with all of the pills whole, dropped them on my tray, and left. I looked at the door thinking "What am I supposed to do with these pills?!" Well...i sucked it up and cut them in half and swallowed them. She kept coming with whole pills until the end of her shift. By the time 4 o'clock rolled around, I had swallowed my first pill! I was so excited that I ran (well...walked fast) to the Nurses Desk and told her " I SWALLOWED IT!!!!" She smiled at me, and said "Good". That's all she wrote. Before she left for the night, she came by and gave me a hug. I teared up. I was SO thankful to have had her as my nurse because she really pushed me to swallow these doggone pills, in her own special way. She was the best nurse in my book. Thank you Mrs. Brown for pushing me to where I needed to be. I will ALWAYS remember you :-)!
That's all folks!
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