iona's blog: Whoa!

iona's blog

It's a journal. It's a devotional. It's a record of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor. It's documentation of God's activities in real time. There are good days and bad, happy times and sad... I tell it like it is. This is an unscripted walk along the meandering paths of my mind. My life has never been dull... and I've never known boredom. Read on, you'll see...

About Me

Name: Iona Hoeppner

Location: Kissimmee, Florida, US

I am a happily married mother and grandmother of a large family. I've also had several careers including writer, teacher, trucker, investment and finance advisor, web master and artist. I am an ordained minister (not to the pulpit) and consider my calling to Christ's service my most important role in life.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Whoa!

Written Later from Memory, Notes and Planner

While we were visiting at the hospital, the nurse came in and announced Donnie was going home, NOW! I protested, no one listened. I finally said quite loudly and firmly that I was not comfortable with him going home PERIOD! I asked about his hematocrit and his low pulse-ox and simple said I would not take him home. It upset him. It upset the nurse. It got results.

All at once, they decided to keep him because his hematocrit was LOW! They ordered two units of packed cells (red blood cells to carry oxygen) STAT (pronto!).

Donnie had expressed his feelings... good. I'm sorry my forwardness upset him, but glad he got the care he needed.

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