Day 757 - A sleeping nurse

Ava had a great day today and is really enjoying eating and trying to break lose from the vent. She gets so excited when her sisters run or play ball. She doesn't seem to have a lot of secretions and seems to be back to normal. Our night nurse is supposed to be in at 7pm and we are looking forward to that. Today is our last Sunday to have a day nurse, but she is hopefully going to be coming in next Sunday since we have an event to go to.

Tonight though, after we went to bed we heard the vent alarming continuously. Anthony got up to check and he found the nurse sound asleep in her leopard snuggie. I got up went in, and the vent was still alarming. Ava's sats were only 92 (which I think was the pulsox), but the vent is so loud, we can't even sleep in the other room without hearing it. I even changed her pulsox probe and she didn't wake up. She was asleep for at least 15 minutes while I called the nursing agency and let them know. Anthony finally got her to wake up and she went out to her car where she couldn't get it started because she ran out of gas. I looked in her nurses notes and she gave her 2 puffs of albuterol because she was supposedly wheezing and then she must have fallen asleep! Thank goodness Ava didn't need to be resuscitated tonight. So it looks like we won't have a night nurse on weekends again. We really need prayers for more nursing. The situation seems to get worse and worse.

Thanking God for Ava and praying for more great nurses...