Thursday, May 22, 2014

My first DAY IN THE LIFE

A day in our life!
I'm used a camera that I was not familiar with so please excuse the *blurry* *flash glare* *general all around bad* photography.




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I peeked into Noël's room and found her wide awake. Just laying there very quietly :)

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First thing I always do is check her stats...*heart rate and oxygen saturation*

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Ummm...0/0 (oxygen sat on left is 0 - heart rate on right is 0) This is very very bad!!!



A little bagging (with oxygen and a few shots of Advair)....

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...seems to do the trick!! And jacks up her heartrate!!!


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Oh hey...

The Medi-gas guy is here!
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WIth goodies...
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And most importantly....oxygen!

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Out of bed and onto her change table.
Check some more vitals...


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Too bad she has nothing nice to wear (hah)

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Pink outfit! Plus Blues Clues mittens for the frosty hands!
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A little bow for the hair.
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1000 meds

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Noël's beauty/medical treatments..

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Brushing teeth

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Baby'facing the baby face..

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Now the hard stuff begins...

Wetting the 2x2's and cotton applicators to clean...
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...the trach site.

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WOW! This is super dangerous to let go of a trach that isn't secured..but it makes for an interesting photo! The old tie *all wrinkly* is at the bottom and the new tie is at the top.

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New trach tie on and almost secure! She looks happy!
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Cleaning the g-tube site..

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Old g-tube extension set/new g-tube extension set

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New tube all ready to go!
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Just in time for...


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Clobazam

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Losec

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Everything crushed, measured, dissolved...


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In it goes...

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Start the feeding pump for a little breakfast...

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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!!!

Oops! Forgot to unlock the flow clamp! That's a beginners mistake!! Boo, Mommy!


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At this point everyone hopes that Mom finds her way to the shower!

But first....clean/dirty laundry.


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I don't have as much cool stuff as Noël!

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It took me 75 shots to actually get myself in the photo! And sadly, that's as good as I get.

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1100

Time to move Noël into the living room. But the puppy's are sitting in her chair! Shoo puppies!

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Hanging out watching some True Blood Wiggles!

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Cuervo looking on.

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More medicine!

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Meanwhile....Mommy is washing bottles (syringes, extension sets and med cups)

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A quick check on the baby...she looked a little pale so I listened to her lungs.

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Working on the nurses schedule for the next 2 weeks...seems simple but it's confusing.

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The love of my life. Senoir Cuervo. My faithful little companion.

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Not sure what the heck this show is but it seems to make her happy!


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Yay! Finished the nursing schedule for when we are in Vegas!!!

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Making supper....some kind of chicken with sauce.

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Lets hope it tastes better than it looks!

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Around 1430, look who came home! Sgt Sanduliak!

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Everyone is happy.

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Puppy love.

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I change the babies pants...

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Get the baby ready....

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And walk over to Tims! <3 p="">Photobucket

Arrive home and it's time for Noël to eat again.

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ME and the Army guy.

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I live with that other guy but it's Tim Horton that I really love! <3 p="">
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That's 550 mls of formula today! Yay, right on schedule.

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Trying to read King's "The Dome"....

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A quick check of Noey....things aren't going so good. A bit instilling and some suctioning and she's as good as new!!

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1700 and time for medication again.

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Supper (Chicken with some kind of juice, is what James called it) is cooking away so I take the dogs out for a walk!

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The mosquitos were SO incredibly bad I didn't take any photos but here are a few of the doggies having a treat.

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The best thing about living on a golf course is collecting the lost balls! :) This is my summer 2010 collection!

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I read a chapter of "Super Fudge" and a couple of little books...

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1800 and medication time again!

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Dinner time for us!

Chicken with sauce (!!) rice and italian bread sticks. It seems painfully obvious that I am NOT a great cook!

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Hello Blue! You can't eat at the table...lol

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The doggie supper.

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I started these sunflowers as seeds inside the house and they are finally flowering!

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A pink flower for a pink girl!

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Here they are as seedlings.

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Here is our house! It's small but we LOVE our house.

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Daddy getting the sleepy baby ready for bed!

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Drawing and labeling nighttime medications for the night nurse.

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A special mention to Old Bunny! Noël's favorite stuffed animal. She will see the end of days with her Old Bunny.

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A few trinkets from Noël's room.

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Well, it's 1934. Approx 12 hrs since I started this project and once again Noël is in bed. Exactly the same way we found her...happy and quiet.

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One puppy in bed with her.


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The other sleeping next to her bed. Always on the lookout!

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Goodnight, sweet baby.

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