{"id":16358,"date":"2009-12-07T23:33:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16358"},"modified":"2009-12-07T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:33:55","slug":"cold-snap-monday-night-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/cold-snap-monday-night-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Cold Snap, Monday Night Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Margie's Broken Ankle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, follow the Twitter for all the impressions during the day (they’ll be posted here shortly, if not already by the time I’ve done this).<\/p>\n

Broad outline of the day’s events:<\/p>\n

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  1. I decide to work from home due to the weather.<\/li>\n
  2. Margie walks Katherine up to Kendall & Tyler’s house to catch the bus.\u00a0 It’s very cold and the bus is usually running late, so they all go inside.<\/li>\n
  3. Margie spots the bus coming, and hurries out to let the driver know that, yes, there are kids to pick up here.\u00a0 Hits a slick part of the paving along the driveway, slips and falls.\u00a0 She thought she had a very bad sprain, and started to hobble home, until she misstepped again and went down, and realized it was actually broken — and that it was slick enough to make it difficult for her to get up (or anyone to help her get up).<\/li>\n
  4. Paula (K&T’s mom) comes running over to the house, where I’m on a conference call.\u00a0 I run\u00a0 into the 5-degree chill with no jacket and just slippers on.\u00a0 Lucinda, a neighbor from up the street, calls 911.<\/li>\n
  5. South Metro Fire Rescue responds within a couple of minutes (they’re also only just a large block away).\u00a0 Both an engine and a paramedic van rolls.\u00a0 They assess the situation, are professional and helpful (special kudos to Laura Goldin), and transport Margie off to Littleton Adventist.<\/li>\n
  6. I’ve put on a jacket and snow boots by now, and I run into the house, grab a bag full of books and sudoku puzzles, send an out-of-office message to my teams, and head over there.<\/li>\n
  7. Margie’s on an ER table.\u00a0 They do x-rays, give her a couple of different pain meds (one of which makes her pretty nauseous), and splint up her leg.\u00a0 They contact Kaiser Permanent (her insurance) to see if they want her treated there or to go through KP’s clinic\/hospital system.\u00a0 KP indicates the former, so the ER teams wraps things up and discharges her.<\/li>\n
  8. Once I get wind that I might be transporting her somewhere, I realize (esp with her splint extended up her full leg) that the Subaru is not going to suffice.\u00a0 I jaunt home, to find a message from KP’s orthopedics department already on the answering machine.\u00a0 I call Margie, let her know (huzzah for the cell phone era), grab the van, and come back to pick her up.\u00a0 She manages to do okay in the middle seats with the passenger front seat slid all the way forward.<\/li>\n
  9. We pick up good drugs at the nearest KP clinic.<\/li>\n
  10. We have an appointment at Franklin Clinic at 2:30.\u00a0 We get there, I learn about the wonders of wheel chairs and juggling a passenger who can’t walk (though she has a nice pair of crutches from the first hospital).\u00a0 I get her inside, then get the van parked.<\/li>\n
  11. Inside, we get referred up to Orthopedics.\u00a0 Supposedly they are going to take x-rays at 2:30, prefatory to a 3:00 meet with the Orthopod.\u00a0 Instead, we hang out until close to 4 before we see the Orthopod, he sends us across the hall for x-rays, we go back, and he informs us that (a) yes, both bones are broken, (b) Littleton Adventist did a piss-poor job in setting the bones because there’s still a big piece of bone pressing outward. Ick.<\/li>\n
  12. KP Orthopedics sends us down the street to St Joseph’s ER (which is KP’s contract hospital).\u00a0 Margie gets asked the same questions she’s already given a dozen times a dozen more times.\u00a0 She eventually gets a room in the ER.\u00a0 It’s around 5 now, and the Percocet she took at 1 is beginning\u00a0 to seriously fade.<\/li>\n
  13. Around 6, the ER team sets to work in resetting the ankle.\u00a0 They moderately sedate her (enough so she’s out of it, not so much they need special anaesthesiological measures).\u00a0 I get sent out to the waiting room, where I sit for about an hour — only to be told by the helpful PA that it only took about 10 minutes, went swimmingly, and Margie’s been asking for me for a while, so I might as well go in.\u00a0 Dark fantasies of tragic medical accidents disappear into a puff of irritation.<\/li>\n
  14. Margie’s doing much better, though she starts to fade pretty quickly.\u00a0 It turns out the new plan is that they are going to admit her, she is going to get plenty of overnight meds, some food (she’s not eaten all day), and they’ll try to get her in the ER Tuesday morning.\u00a0 Huzzah.<\/li>\n
  15. We call Paula, who’s been watching after Katherine, and she’s more than happy to let K sleep over.<\/li>\n
  16. An hour and change later, someone finally comes to transport her to her room.\u00a0 Since they were to give her new pain meds there, she’d been holding off on having anything in the ER, and is beginning to feel pretty uncomfortable.<\/li>\n
  17. The floor nurse who is just going off-duty gets us tucked into her room (a very nice former suite) around 8:15.\u00a0 She says she’s going to hand us off to the next floor nurse, who will be back shortly.<\/li>\n
  18. Finally, 9 o’clock rolls around.\u00a0 Margie is still hungry, she is in more pain, she is cold (and\u00a0 there are no extra blankets in the room), and the nurse has not been there.\u00a0 Her doc (PA?) from the ER comes in to see how she’s doing and update her on the plans.\u00a0 We bitch and moan about how we haven’t seen hide nor hair of nurse, food, or meds.\u00a0 He trundles off, comes back about 10 minutes later to say that she should be in shortly.<\/li>\n
  19. Ten minutes later, we ring the nurse desk.\u00a0 We’re assured our nurse will be told of our needs.<\/li>\n
  20. Ten minutes later, at 9:30, I go in search of nurse.\u00a0 I find the main desk, ask what the hell is going on with my wife’s pain meds, originally prescribed 2.5h ago, etc.\u00a0 I am assured that Kelly is making her rounds with the meds and will be there shortly.<\/li>\n
  21. Fifteen minutes later, Kelly finally shows up, an hour and a half since we arrived in the room.\u00a0 She is not greeted warmly by Margie, who notes that she is cold, hungry, very thirsty (no water today, either, except ice chips at Littleton), and in pain.\u00a0 The nurse makes some very lame excuses about how she’s just been called in, how the Rx was just filed, etc.\u00a0 Margie will have none of it.<\/li>\n
  22. Nurse Kelly plies Margie with meds, confirms that, yes, she can have water, and that she can also havfe some food (pre-packaged sandwiches, etc.).<\/li>\n
  23. Around 10:20, I head home.\u00a0 A very long day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Some of the times above may not add up, but it was a pretty frustrating experience.\u00a0 “In just a minute” means more like “probably a half hour from now,” it seems, esp. at St Joe’s.\u00a0 Also, lesson learned: if offered some sort of pain med, take it then, don’t wait until you think the time is right or you are seriously hurting.<\/p>\n

    Slight change in game plan for tomorrow.\u00a0 Margie will most likely not get into the OR until early afternoon.\u00a0 I plan on working from home until lunch, then heading up, so I should be there for the pre-op, etc.\u00a0 Unless plans change again.<\/p>\n

    Okay — pretty tired now.\u00a0 Time for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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