{"id":3254,"date":"2010-01-22T11:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:26:46","slug":"just-another-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"Just another Friday…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, as we were going through our usual bedtime routine, Mary Clare decided to spice things up a bit.\u00a0 McCanless was already in her bed asleep at 8 pm.\u00a0 (She has strep throat, by the way, which is the only reason she would be in the bed asleep at such an hour.)\u00a0 I plopped Mary Clare up onto the counter as I do every night.\u00a0 She had her juice in one hand and her paci in the other.\u00a0 I turned my back to grab her syringe for her Blood Pressure medication, which happened to be sitting beside her.\u00a0 We have done this twice a day for her entire life.\u00a0 She takes 2 ml’s of her Enalapril.\u00a0 Once in the morning and once at night.\u00a0 In the split second that I was grabbing the syringe, I heard her sucking on her sippy cup, or so I thought.<\/em> I turned around and she had the bottle of Enalapril turned up.<\/p>\n

Funny, I didn’t panic.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it is just my personality or that I’m so used to unexpected events in my household after having three high maintenance people living with me.\u00a0 It also helped that I remembered one of my heart mom friends, Maddie<\/a>‘s mom, from Washington State, telling me about her daughter who had an over-dosage of her BP med for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 (Pharmacy’s fault, but she was fine, thank goodness.)\u00a0 So that gave me some comfort, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I grabbed the phone to call Mel, who was at a city function.\u00a0 I couldn’t get him so I called MUSC….and long story short, we ended up going to our local hospital to be monitored for four hours.\u00a0 (Well, I<\/em> wasn’t monitored.\u00a0 Mary Clare was monitored.)\u00a0 All was fine.\u00a0 Her BP did drop pretty low, but not low enough for intervention. The nurses were more concerned about her “low” oxygen levels because they were in the upper 70’s.\u00a0 I had to explain numerous times that her O2 wasn’t our concern.\u00a0 This was about her BP.\u00a0 Upper 70’s are fine for her, especially when she was sleeping!\u00a0 Such is life with a heart kiddo.<\/p>\n

So today, we’re home.\u00a0 Vegging right now.\u00a0 McCanless is ill because I won’t allow her to skate through the house<\/em> (sick, remember?) and I took Mary Clare to school for a couple of hours to get out of the house<\/em>.\u00a0 She certainly hasn’t been acting like her BP is running low.\u00a0 Quite the contrary.\u00a0 She was running circles around McCanless this morning and begged me to take her to the park at 8 AM despite our late night rendezvous.\u00a0 So, pre-school it was!<\/p>\n

Life is back to normal.\u00a0 McCanless is fussing. \u00a0 Mary Clare is happily blue.\u00a0 Mel is filming some local television interview and I’m tired and thankful.\u00a0 And happy.<\/p>\n

Lesson learned.<\/p>\n

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My sweetheart in her princess pj’s fast asleep at the hospital.\u00a0 Even the constant BP cuff squeezes and the beeping of the pulse oximeter going berserk over her “low” levels didn’t arouse sleeping beauty.<\/p>\n

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Last night, as we were going through our usual bedtime routine, Mary Clare decided to spice things up a bit.\u00a0 McCanless was already in her bed asleep at 8 pm.\u00a0 (She has strep throat, by the way, which is the only reason she would be in the bed asleep at such an hour.)\u00a0 I plopped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}