I have to tell you all a story, happened during Laurie's recovery.
You can imagine that Laurie tries to be somewhat more independant than her recovery can support at this point in time. She'll say things like 'stop the meds' or 'I think I am going to go for a walk', etc... and the nurses and I just look at each other. She (at that time) has little sense of balance at all and did have brain surgery; fragile package. And nausea has been causing her to not walk a lot. So....
Yesterday, I was out for dinner breakfast around 8:30am and returned to find a couple of nurses working diligently around her. Appears Laurie had become tired of having a permanent IV taped to her arm and from which they draw blood for tests and inject some meds; she yanked them out. Needless to say, since they are perfectly placed so that blood will flow easily upon demand, when she pulled, blood did flow, and lots of it. She must have been going through her purse because it and her walltet and everythign it it was saturated with blood. After scrubbing everything down and sanitizing them, I just threw the purse out. Sorry no pics. Even 4th grade boys would have called it gross.
And besides, she will get a new purse out of it, and I suspect matching accoutrements. I think it is a law somewhere: you can't but a purse without buying matching accoutrements.
What a gorgeous day outside for the beginnig of November. I am sure you are no doubt already ice-fishing in St. Paul. Yeah, you betcha.
You can imagine that Laurie tries to be somewhat more independant than her recovery can support at this point in time. She'll say things like 'stop the meds' or 'I think I am going to go for a walk', etc... and the nurses and I just look at each other. She (at that time) has little sense of balance at all and did have brain surgery; fragile package. And nausea has been causing her to not walk a lot. So....
Yesterday, I was out for dinner breakfast around 8:30am and returned to find a couple of nurses working diligently around her. Appears Laurie had become tired of having a permanent IV taped to her arm and from which they draw blood for tests and inject some meds; she yanked them out. Needless to say, since they are perfectly placed so that blood will flow easily upon demand, when she pulled, blood did flow, and lots of it. She must have been going through her purse because it and her walltet and everythign it it was saturated with blood. After scrubbing everything down and sanitizing them, I just threw the purse out. Sorry no pics. Even 4th grade boys would have called it gross.
And besides, she will get a new purse out of it, and I suspect matching accoutrements. I think it is a law somewhere: you can't but a purse without buying matching accoutrements.
What a gorgeous day outside for the beginnig of November. I am sure you are no doubt already ice-fishing in St. Paul. Yeah, you betcha.
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