I have to tell you about our horrible mishap a couple of nights ago. I only do so to hopefully keep someone else from making such a dreadful mistake. I still get chill bumps when I think about it. And, to be honest I am mortified by my own mistake. After the night nurse arrived, we were setting Carmen up for the night and I was setting up the oxygen. We got a humidifier canister for the oxygen machine so that the oxygen does not dry out Carmen’s nose so badly. I thought I knew how to set it up. Carmen was in her crib and all of sudden totally freaked out. She is unable to verbalize but it was clear she was in distress. The nurse quickly leaned her forward because she was choking. I grabbed the suction machine and tried suctioning her out and she was gasping and spewing out water. We both realized that water was pouring out of the nasal cannula, directly into Carmen’s nose. I quickly disconnected the tubing and Carmen was able to get her breath. I had connected the tubing wrong and instead of oxygen going into Carmen’s nose, water was pouring into her nose. The good thing is that the water was coming right out her mouth but it was still absolutely the scariest moment we have had. And, I felt HORRIBLE. The following day the oxygen guy delivered a bunch of tanks and I asked him to take a look at the humidifier canister. Not only were we missing an adaptor piece but I had connected the tubing to Carmen’s nose to the water instead of to the oxygen part. Now it is all set and there is no possibility for such a mishap! So, that’s my PSA for the day. Make sure you know how to set up the humidifier to the oxygen machine!!!!!!!!!!!

Whew, now for something a little lighter. Yesterday the doorbell rang and both the Fed-Ex guy and the UPS guy were at my house! Between the two we had 6 big boxes in our foyer. Carmen gets medical shipments each month- formula, feeding bags, syringes, gloves, nebulizer sets, oxygen tubing, etc. Yesterday, everything came at the same time. Fed-Ex guy and UPS guy seemed to think it was funny. Oh, and the oxygen guy had already arrived with 6 oxygen tanks and they were still in the foyer, along with the big back-up tank.

Ha! Ha! Just as I was typing this up, the doorbell rang. UPS man was bringing 4 more packages. I think they are trying to take over my house!

Big thanks to Claudia for watching Carmen today while I went to the Mother’s Day Tea. The muffins are yummy and I enjoyed chatting with you! Dave and I so much look up to you and Eric.