life onboard ship means flexibility - flexibility in living, in working and in activities of daily living. during my shift yesterday i became a PICU nurse - a paediatric intensive care nurse for one of our six month olds. i have written about him lots, both on my blog and on facebook. little Mauris is a baby on our infant feeding programme - now having got nice and fat (how i love little rolls of brown baby fat on chubby legs!) he has had his cleft lip repair.after his operation he has been struggling with his breathing, from broncospasm and stridor, and now having a trache. he is getting better - praise God.
so i am used to size 7 traches, his was a size 1. suction catheters that are size 12, not size 8. breath sounds from adults, not tiny babies with pops and clicks rather than what i would consider wheezes and tight airways to sound like.
so all in all it was a steep learning curve - and i've learned even greater lessons in working as a team, being flexible and accepting challenges! I handed over a peacefully sleeping little one, with a clean nappy, a balloon mobile above his bed and all his numbers looking good. it was a good shift, even with some slight stresses and worries as we went along!
so this is mauris when he first came to us in January and then right before his surgery almost a week ago...look how he's almost grown out of his trousers his belly is so big!
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