Thursday, December, 21st 2023 | Inpatient Day 01
Katie’s facebook update
UPDATE: Richard was admitted last night to the hospital. He has RSV and Influenza and on O2. Kyle just told me they are transferring him to the PICU because he is needing a higher level of oxygen support than the medical floor can provide. Please pray for quick healing/recovery and sanity and sleep for Kyle. Thank you all!
More details
You can read more about our ER experience and what brought us in our last post. At about 2 am Richard was admitted to the Medical & Surgical Acute Care Unit. Dr. Davis, a very efficient resident from the ‘Green’ Team on the floor stopped by the ER room at about 2:20 am to talk about the trainstion and get to know Richard. Papa was very impressed with Dr. Davis. We got to our room (623) at about 3 am and met Stacy our bedside RN. She was very nice and helped a lot. Terry was our overnight RT and took good care of us.
Dr. Bailey (green team attending) and papa talked about if we wanted to transfer to Seattle Children’s. The consensus was that as long as it seems like we are on the ‘few nights’ plan then we would stay here and if we switch to a talking in weeks we would likely transfer.
At about 7 AM we meet Jamie who was our new Bedside RN. During morning rounds we found out that there was no growth (yet) on the blood culture. His viral test came back positive for both RSV and parainfluenza 4.
Throughout the morning and early afternoon Richard’s O2 needs kept going up and at 2pm we moved to the PICU to get high-flow oxygen. Their ICU is one floor above and we meet Dr. Coro (PICU attending) and Marr and Susan (preceptor) who were assigned as Richard’s beside team.
At the the PM handoff for nursing and we met Lindsey. The night was relatively uneventful and just riding, as the Addending called it, ‘the ups and downs of the RSV roller-coaster.’