We had quite the trip to the Red Deer Hospital, even with the best laid plans things seem to always get messed up somehow. We had a good trip down to the hospital and arrived with high expectations only to find the plans that had been made were not in place at this end. We did get a new feeding tube put in, a different kind of feeding tube. It works a little different than the one he had in place but I won't get into details. We are trying it and hopefully Chris will tolerate the change and we will then be moving a step closer to our goal.
Ambulance service down was great no surprises, half hour trip to Red Deer in and ready to go.
But when we were ready to go we had to wait 2 1/2 hours for the transfer ambulance to arrive.
I gave the crew instructions on Chris for positioning, keeping him seated and upright, as well as his coughing spells and it was nothing to be alarmed about. Told them he just needed to sit up and cough it out, at this point one attendant asked if any nurses going to ride with them.
I explained that this would be the fourth trip with their service it only lasted a half hour and it was no big deal. As we turned to leave he proceeded to drop the bed leaving Chris in a flat position I quickly reminded him about keeping him seated.
Helped them out to the ambulance then went to get in the car to follow as I pulled around they had already left. By the time I got about halfway back to Ponoka I received a phone call which seemed to be very confusing. The ambulance had been turned back and ended up at the emergency department in Red Deer. So I turned around and headed back to Red Deer to the emergency department wondering what could be the problem. Just prior to arriving back at the hospital I received another phone call to tell me that the ambulance was on its way back to Ponoka with Christopher. I turned around and headed to Ponoka arriving back at four o'clock in the afternoon only to find no Christopher or ambulance when I got there.
Went down the hall looking for them and down the hallway came the stretcher from the ambulance with Chris tipping over the edge with arm and head hanging down.
I asked them if they headed to Edmonton in the three hours since they left Red Deer.
I was told that Christopher was gagging and choking and the same fellow that I talked to at the hospital decided that they needed to go to emergency that he couldn't handle it. I asked the same attendant why Christopher was hanging over the edge of the stretcher with his head hanging down to the side and red in the face. He proceeded to tell me that that's the way he wanted to sit that he in fact tried to straighten his head but he just wanted to put it back off the bed and let it hang over the edge. I so wanted to take that attendant and twist him around the end of the bed to see if that's how he liked to stand,
I can't even begin to tell the stupidity of this whole trip and at this ambulance crew.
All in all it was a 7 1/2 hour trip for a 15 minute procedure and a completely exhausting day. Once Chris was comfortable he seemed to fall asleep right away and was tolerating the new tube and feed well into the evening. I will see how overnight went this morning, and if all was well during the night we will be heading to the pool at 930.
I will update later and hopefully I will have all kinds of good things to tell from today.
Thanks for checking in,
Kevin
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