Pumping Iron 

Today seemed like it was going to be like any other Monday.  Sterile dressing change, maybe a doctor visit, weekly blood draws.  In the Solomon household never say normal! Zachary’s nurse Alisa had her baby at 8:30 this morning.  Owen Charles.   We told Alisa we would try to come see her later today.  Zachary misses her so much.  Every time the door opens in the morning he waits to see Alisa and then a new nurse walks in.  He is NOT HAPPY. 

Over the last week our new nurse Keisha had made great strides to be Zachary’s new best buddy.  They sing, color and play with stickers. 

We have an iron infusion scheduled at Dr. Hanson office for 1:30 pm.  As we are packing up, I look out the back window.  There is Keisha’s car in the back yard.  It somehow rolled out of our driveway, down the hill and is now sitting by a small tree.  It is muddy and there is no way the car is going back up the steep hill.  Keisha is in panic mode, here she is, a new nurse at my house and her car is 4 wheeling without her.  She runs down to the car.  The only way out is through our neighbors back yard and up their driveway.  Luckily with minor damage to the lawns and her car, she is able to rescue her car!

Off to Dr. Hanson’s.  While we are drawing labs and changing his dressing we do a swab to test for staph since his line site is still looking a little icky.

Zachary tolerates the small iron test so we start the infusion.  While he is being infused we do arts and crafts, watch the Dr. Seuss, walk around the office…anything to pass the time, 4 hours before we get to go home.