Sunday, 8 December 2013

My first tune up

I'm 15 months old and I have cultured pseudomomas aeruginosa (PA). 

I often had my morning iv's during breakfast. The morning run was from around 6am until 8.45am ish. Mum was dying for a coffee! The food wasn't as good as home! 
I had 3 doses of tementin a day and a single dose of tobramycon. These are hard core antibiotics aimed to kill negative gram bacteria like pseudomonas. 

I enjoyed the view of cars, trucks, bikes, planes and helicopters. It got pretty hard not to run around with iv's hooked up (that's how I pulled the first line and had to go back under anesthetic). 

I got in some reading and even borrowed from the library.  I just love trucks, bikes, beetles, butterfly's, dogs (macs), balloons, and balls. 

Sometimes it got boring as mum was cleaning my meal mess and I couldn't go outside so I got into what ever I could. 


I liked to nap during my afternoon iv's. I took my favourite things from home. My iv's were 6-9am ish, 2-3 and 10-11pm ish. I also had multiple blood tests, visits from drs, dietician, social worker and Physio twice a day. Plus my normal toddler routine!!! 


I was lucky enough to have a few walks. Sanastian visited me this day.
I loved it!

I constantly had my obs done to check my temp, heart rate and pulse. I also had many many blood tests (checking my tobra levels 2 and 6 hours after my iv's) and have jab marks all over my hands and feet. 



One of the days I was lucky enough to be there for the B105 Christmas appeal and saw a few celebrities (mums not sure who they were) and the best thing ever a big Macc Truck!!!! 


I was a real trooper and endured lots of different people poking and proding me.

I was happy to go home to my trucks and was so thankful Eve lent me her Monkey as the adult bum belt the hospital issued was a tad big. 
I will stay hooked up to my monkey until Sunday and then start 4 weeks on nebulised antibiotics. A nurse visits me daily at home while on iv's. 

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