It was delivery day again today. It hardly seems any time since our last one. Time is flying by. We had the 8:00 am to 12:05 delivery slot and the guy came at 10:00 am, which was brilliant, as we had time to get everyone fed and dressed before he arrived. He got the 23 boxes of fluid and other supplies unloaded and into our flat very efficiently.
The cuff that we use to take Jasmine’s blood pressure sprang a leak this morning. It was due to be changed at GOSH for a larger size anyway, but we were hoping to hang on until next week. As it was dressing day today Ruth changed the exit site dressing, and did the swab that we were given on Monday. She took the swab out of its tube, dipped it in some sterile water, then rubbed the exit site where the catheter comes through Jasmine’s skin with the cotton bud end, and put the swab back into its tube. At the hospital they will see whether any bacteria grow on the sample. Ruth then set the machine up straight afterwards.
On the way to the tube to go to GOSH we went to the doctors to sort out some blood results for Ruth that have been taking ages to be sent back by UCH. We made appointments for all of us to have flu jabs and picked up a prescription from the chemist.
At GOSH we swapped the blood pressure cuff and dropped off the swab and were in Pret-a-Manger for lunch by 2 pm, feeling very satisfied with our days work!
Great to hear all the results are coming out fine for both girls, and that Jasmine’s fine movements are developing so well as shown by the stickers. I loved the picture the other week of her ready for movement and giving piglet the plaster.
Interesting too that with all that knowledge the docs rely on the TV too. Glad Jasmine could be distracted by CBeebies, it makes paying the TV licence more worthwhile!