....16th September - Maisie's background morphine was taken off this morning, she was left attached to it just in case a push of the button was needed. Maisie was still very groggy today, as to be expected, but seemed to be doing fine. Maisie's line to the morphine was eventually taken out around tea time, she seems to be doing fine without it & me and Alan are both glad they've stopped it, some form of our happy little girl had came back and she was asking to be put on the floor, it was hard to say no to her. Not wanting to put her on the floor with her only being just over 24 hours post-op. Eventually we gave in and put her on the floor, she lifted her top half, then started to cry. We knew it was too soon, but because she kept asking, we thought maybe she would realise it was "too soon". This time round Maisie is refusing to take her painkillers orally, so the nurses are giving her suppositories....
....17th September - Maisie had a pretty good day today, her temperature went up to 39oC, but after some paracetamol & fan brought it down nicely. Because Maisie's temperature was so high they had the little red light attached to her toe, which monitored her blood oxygen levels and her heartbeat. Maisie was sitting with me having a cuddle when all of a sudden this machine she was attached to started beeping, a student nurse came over to have a look, she watched it for a short while, as did me and Alan, the top number (which was her blood oxygen levels) was dropped to 81, after I asked what it should be, she told us above 95. The student nurse went to get a qualified nurse, but they were busy, so she came back to us and this top number dropped to 39 for only a second then went back to being 81 again. I think the student panicked a little and she got the oxygen mask and placed it on my shoulder close to Maisie's face. The oxygen had only been on a matter of 20 seconds before the qualified nurse came over, looked at Maisie, swapped toes with the red light thingy and everything went back to normal. The readings stayed normal for the rest of the time they were monitoring her....
....18th September - We had Maisie out for a lot of day today, she did not want to be on the ward at all and was screaming every time we sat down with her, she wanted to be in our arms walking around the ward, which is OK for a short while, but she soon gets very heavy which leads to back ache and aching arms. We have been told that provided Maisie maintains a good temperature she should be able to go home tomorrow, but that if her temperature did spike again then they would have to take some blood and wait for the cultures to come back. Maisie enjoyed being out and about all day and by bedtime after her last temperature was taken for the day it had managed to stay good all day....
....19th September - By 10am we were told that we were allowed home! Obviously we had to wait for Maisie's medication to be brought down from pharmacy and then we would be free to go home. We took Maisie out for a long walk. Close to lunch time we took her back to The Sick Children's Trust so we could cook her a small frozen pizza we had for her. After she had eaten Alan took Maisie back to the ward to see if her medication was there yet, while I stayed back and packed up all our stuff. Alan had only been gone around a half hour when he rang me to say that he was on his way back, Maisie has been officially discharged and is allowed to go home. We were prescribed paracetamol and diclofenac suppositories this time, and also some lactulose. As soon as we got into our taxi and were on our way home, Maisie face lit up...she was even happier when we stepped through our own front door. Once we had settled in a little at home, I sat and read Maisie's discharge paper, it read:
Clinical Details:
Main Condition Treated:
left developmental dysplasia left hip previous open reduction left hip, subluxation left hip.
Most Invasive Procedure:
Revision open reduction left hip, tissue samples sent for MC+S + hip Spica.
Clinical Summary:
Elective admission for the above procedures under Ms Maizen and Mr Patterson on 15/9/11. No complications. Femoral head appeared reduced in the acetabulum but is mishaped. Appearance due to ?previous infection or ?AVN. MC+S of hip tissues showed no growth after 48 hours. Discharged home with analgesia. To be admitted for change of hip Spica in 6 weeks....
Steph xxxx
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