Leg Complications... Grr
I tried to visit Amacker at 8 this morning, something I've done many times, so I could get to work and make the boss-man think he's paying me for something. Unfortunately I got kicked out of her room and asked to come back during visiting hours. (Those start at 10AM.)
Before I was ejected, I found out that Amacker's left shin is having difficulties. Some of the muscle that they pulled over her bone has not taken well, and they're taking action to revive it. Unfortunately they had to remove some of her skin graft to do that. They think (hope) everything will be fine, but she'll eventually have to have another skin graft.
All of this shouldn't delay her waking up, but it's sucky. More sucky was the fact that this was the first time I've been able to talk to her plastic surgeons in a long time, and I only caught them because I was breaking visiting hours rules and found them making rounds. I'm becoming a bit frustrated with the fact that there is a different nurse every day, and each has slightly different information. The doctors in charge of her overall care are much harder to pin down.
Luckily a team of hot-shot doctor trackers are flying in from Chicago and Dallas tonight.
Before I was ejected, I found out that Amacker's left shin is having difficulties. Some of the muscle that they pulled over her bone has not taken well, and they're taking action to revive it. Unfortunately they had to remove some of her skin graft to do that. They think (hope) everything will be fine, but she'll eventually have to have another skin graft.
All of this shouldn't delay her waking up, but it's sucky. More sucky was the fact that this was the first time I've been able to talk to her plastic surgeons in a long time, and I only caught them because I was breaking visiting hours rules and found them making rounds. I'm becoming a bit frustrated with the fact that there is a different nurse every day, and each has slightly different information. The doctors in charge of her overall care are much harder to pin down.
Luckily a team of hot-shot doctor trackers are flying in from Chicago and Dallas tonight.
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When my mother-in-law was in ICU, my husband and I would get there super-early in the morning to ambush the relevant doctors on their rounds.
I know it's frustrating. Good luck!
Oh I pity the fool doctor or nurse that tries to give any of you crap information!
But then again, they're juggling alot of information for a number of patients, and I imagine that even though caring for and informing the families of the injured _is_ part of their job, most of their focus is on the patients themselves.
Like I said yesterday, I look forward to when she's in a room, awake, and we can get the information straight from the horse's mouth.
What??!! You got kicked out of her room? That's outrageous! No way! I didn't know the ICU had "visiting hours" I figured that anyone in there needs family, and family needs to be checking on their loved ones in the ICU whenever they are available.
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