Not an hour after I posted my last post…Penelope’s IV went bad. Same story, OCCLUDED PATIENT SIDE alarm, no kinks anywhere, wouldn’t flush, came out completely bent.

A little blurry but this is the IV catheter that came OUT of her arm/wrist

It came out and luckily the echo medication for sedation was oral so we didn’t need the IV right then. They gave her the sedation medication dose for her weight and of course it wasn’t enough for my tough cookie. Penelope starts getting a little bit loopy and wants to move all around the crib so I had to make sure she didn’t bonk her head anywhere. It reminds me of trying to sedate a large animal, like an elephant, wobbling back and forth and fighting the sedation. They gave her another half dose, she fought that again and I actually had to swaddle her and rock her, with all the fight she had still, until she finally crashed. They did the echo, I got a shower and rushed back because the CHET team was coming to insert the IV.

After a full weighted dose of sedation medication

So the CHET team got called to a trauma and we had to wait a while before they would come. Penelope woke up, of course, so when they came she was full of it. They tried 3 times with no luck. She fought and cried and every once in a while got distracted by the bubbles the Child Life Specialist, Andi, was blowing for her. Now we wait. The next step is the anesthesiologist but since they are in the OR all day we just have to wait until they call us. Once that happens we go straight to the PACU for another poke, hopefully one that sticks.

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