Snap, Crackle, Pop

Noah was resting well and then his monitor went off. One of his lead wires had fallen off. Sounds simple; however, these do not snap on easily and he was sleeping on his side. To be exact, the side I needed was down. I gently reach under him to reposition him and everything is damp. He is in a deep sleep, which I do not want to disturb. Well it did not work out. Repositioning and pressing the lead back on did get him rather upset. So he is awake. "Lets do the vitals and lab work," says the nurse. Alright, that sounds logical, to disrupt him only once instead of again later. Unfortunately his IV line malfunctioned and he was not amused with his arm being manipulated to fix it. Now his lid is popped and he's mad. I change his diaper and continued to comfort him. I really needed mommy because she is the nurturer. The nurse then asked me if I wanted to go ahead and do the chest x-ray since he was up? That was an easy answer, "No!" I do not think he would have been willing to cooperate. Thirty minutes later he was settled down and asleep. I am happy to report he was able to get back into a deep sleep and have a restful night. These are more common for him now.

Then his lead comes off again! Intelligent nurse says, "lets turn off the respiratory rate function until he wakes." Good solution. He slept through this alarm and his lab draws after his IV line was fixed. All in all, a good night after the fireworks crackled out. He will be ready to race! After all, he is a 2 time winning MUSC 500 race veteran.