Nurse Donna to the rescue!

Okay, if you read yesterday's blog, you know the story. Well, they finally found a nurse who knows how to repair catheter lumens. It was the night shift's resource nurse, Donna. At 11pm this evening, she replaced the two compromised lumens with new ones. It took about 25 minutes for her to repair them. It wasn't all that difficult, but it was quite a production--the nurse had to perform a number of steps and a bunch of safety precautions were taken. Two other nurses were in attendance to assist and observe.

I was tempted to snap a picture of this because Mike looked like he was undergoing massive surgery due to all the medical/repair supplies he had on him...but I don't think nurse Donna would have appreciated it. She was all business, which was good. She came in, did her thing and then wished us a good night.

We have to wait a day before we can start running the IV through the new lumens...and hopefully they should work. We are so, so relieved that Mike did not have to have the whole catheter surgically replaced. Going forward, Mike and I will watch the nurses more closely so that we can avoid things like this in the future. Live and learn.

I just got home and it's nearly midnight. Gotta go to sleep. More updates tomorrow...