This may be a short post as I am pretty tired. We had a full day of surgery & they added a 4th Surgical Table so we did about 20 cases today and a few of them were the ones that fit into the saying the PACU has periods of both calm & chaos & moments with alot of chaos. We had alot of that chaos today with some complicated cases but they all did GREAT in the end. The PACU team is great I am blessed to meet & then work with some amazing people.
We started the day in the post op ward & it was fun to see the kids who has surgery yesterday & how they looked today - especially my little friend Oscar who was the child with dwarfism & a huge bilateral cleft lip - he looked so good! Also some of the "problem children" from yesterday were just perfect today!
The Child Life volunteer Claudia was so wonderful to give us a heads up when she had some of the kids in pre-op so that we could see them there - Emily who was having a palate repairwas a darling little girl she was doing medical play with & Jennifer Lopez (yep that was her name) was another! Denis was darling in pre-op but gave us some of that chaos in recovery with some respiratory issues. I took some cute photos with him.
There was a very young mom who was so sweet & quite worried about her little girl, she held onto her dress & doll when the baby went into surgery & she waited outside the recovery room external door for her instead of near the pediatric room so I saw her when her baby girl was returned to her arms & it was one of those tearful moments. All she wanted was for her daughter to be "normal".
I am super tired & will blog again tomorrow. I got to skype call my family today & that always makes my day!!! I love being able to do this & use my gifts & talents to help others but I do miss my family whether it is one week or 2 weeks so catching up with ALL of them was a blessing!
Good Night from Honduras!
We started the day in the post op ward & it was fun to see the kids who has surgery yesterday & how they looked today - especially my little friend Oscar who was the child with dwarfism & a huge bilateral cleft lip - he looked so good! Also some of the "problem children" from yesterday were just perfect today!
The Child Life volunteer Claudia was so wonderful to give us a heads up when she had some of the kids in pre-op so that we could see them there - Emily who was having a palate repairwas a darling little girl she was doing medical play with & Jennifer Lopez (yep that was her name) was another! Denis was darling in pre-op but gave us some of that chaos in recovery with some respiratory issues. I took some cute photos with him.
There was a very young mom who was so sweet & quite worried about her little girl, she held onto her dress & doll when the baby went into surgery & she waited outside the recovery room external door for her instead of near the pediatric room so I saw her when her baby girl was returned to her arms & it was one of those tearful moments. All she wanted was for her daughter to be "normal".
I am super tired & will blog again tomorrow. I got to skype call my family today & that always makes my day!!! I love being able to do this & use my gifts & talents to help others but I do miss my family whether it is one week or 2 weeks so catching up with ALL of them was a blessing!
Good Night from Honduras!
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