Day #12

With all the excitement of parents visiting, I forgot about one other event from Wednesday. Before we got there Wednesday morning Mihaela and Gabriela left for their annual testing at Barlad hospital. We won't get to see them before we leave, but hopefully the rest of the team will see them back at the clinic next week.

Thursday was an eventful day in the isolation room (where I spend most of my time). My "little man" Ionut has a bad UTI that they had been unable to control with augmentin. Because of this, he had been having high fevers and not feeling well, so they decided that they needed to do injections of another antibiotic. Because of his medical problems, and the fact that he was dehydrated, the nurse had a very hard time finding a vein to put a port in. They ended up having to shave his head and put port in his left temple. They aren't running an IV, but instead doing injections of his antibiotics every so often. He was unhappy when they put it in, but seemed to recover pretty quickly. Because they were so busy putting in the IV, the staff were unable to serve the kids all their meals at the usual times, so the kids were a bit more fussy. The afternoon was quiet because all slightly mobile kids were in pre-school with Malika, so we had less children to watch.

We went back at night, and that shift was pretty crazy. We took all the non-mobiles and the sometimes quarantined group into the little playroom (as well as big Andreea), so it was a full house. I spent the first part of the shift in the mobile room with Celine, Ionela, and Alex, who were not getting along well. Ionela and Celine are very competitive, and after bottle time, the aides locked me in! (they normally lock the room if the kids are in there alone, because Ionela can open the door). Once I got another aide to open the door I went to work with the non-mobiles, but felt bad because the mobiles continued to fight. It was hard to keep the somewhat mobile kids away from the babies, and after Cristi made Roxana cry, we tried to keep the babies off the floor!