Being a regular in the CICU over the last nine months, I’ve heard a lot of stories about those kinds of families – you know, the ones who come to visit their children inebriated, or use their child’s bed as a table for their fried chicken dinner, or start talking to themselves and mixing up their days and nights…. you know, the weird ones.
Well, I have this friend… she might just become one of those people the nurses warn new mothers about. She was holding her son in his bed, much like I do, and needed to leave to get her other children. She happens to have older children, just like me. We have a lot in common you see. Her nurse was tied up doing a transfer across the hall. So my friend gets it in her head that she can safely get out of the crib without help.
Mind you, her son is on a ton of support, just like Ryan. He has an A-line (arterial line) and a PICC line (Peripheral Inserted Central Catheter) on one side and a feeding tube, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter on the other side. Not to mention the nasal cannula for oxygen support, but that can be flipped easily from side-to-side and the leads monitoring heart and respiratory rates. She wisely chose to try and climb over the side with the least invasive lines.
She placed her sleeping son on the bed beside her and gingerly started inching herself over the lines coming from his tiny body. About halfway out of bed, his feeding pump alarmed and she glanced over to see if the line was occluded or if the feed was done. As she moved her face closer to get a good look at the warning message simultaneously reaching to shut off the alarm, she lost her balance, flipped over the bed rail and onto the floor.
Thankfully, the only harm done to her son was he got his cheek waxed by his feeding tube tape, which incidentally did not come all the way off so the feeding tube stayed in place.
The only harm done to my friend other than a few bruises was to her pride. This ranks right up there with the twitching eye incident and has to be the most embarrassing thing to happen since then.
Let’s just say my friend will ask for help every time going forward when she needs to put her son down.
Anyone want to share their most recent embarrassing moment?
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (13)
Good to see “your friend” wasn’t hurt too bad and neither was her son. =)
Sorry about your “friend’s” fall. I’m sure you two are so close you can feel her pain. Uh? There was no way to put the crib sides down?
love ya.
Loved this! I think I have one of those ‘friends’ as well. lol
My most recently embaressing moment came the other day when the furniture repair man was here and asked to use the restroom. I graciously pointed him toward the small one in the hallway and then belatedly remembered that I’d had some trouble with it flushing that morning and in my rush to get other things done and receiving a phone call from my husband had TOTALLY forgotten to go back and make sure it got flushed properly and was clean. Needless to say, I was slightly mortified but of course he didn’t say anything after coming out and neither did I. My husband got a good laugh out of it when I told him though! I told him he was partially to blame since it was his phone call that interuppted me, but I don’t think he bought it. He wasn’t the one having to face the man that saw it after all! 🙂
Thanks for the funny story and I hope you all have a great day.
Tyra
That’s funny!! Did anyone see this happen? See I have this disease that when I see someone fall and even get hurt, I laugh and I can’t stop!!! I know, it’s awful!! This disease started when I was 10 and my little sister, who was 3 at the time was walking in a parking lot and she was talking and laughing about something and not watching where she was going and ran right into a parked car!! I laughed and laughed and my mom pretty much beat me all the way home!! I’ll never forget it…I even laugh at my own kids! I know, it’s awful and I’m ashamed!
Thanks for sharing your “friend’s” embarassing moment….it provided the laugh I needed today! I even went back to the “eye twitching” blog….Rick and I shared a good laugh over it as well! Thanks for your email last night….I cried with it!
Give hugs and loves to our CNMC bunch!
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You’ve got me CRACKING up OUT LOUD right now…too funny. I’m so glad your “friend” is doing well along with “her” son.
Nothing physically embarrassing happened to me lately, but I had a mental lapse recently. When I was asked not to long ago about how I’m going to feel turning 25 next year, I simply said “I don’t want it to come because then I will be halfway to 30.” Obviously, I’m not THAT terrible at math….what I meant was that it’s halway between 20 and 30….not one of my best moments. LOL oh well. Thanks for sharing!!!
Good one Leighann, I needed a laugh:) I recently took Christian to the Dr. and being the good mother I am I carried my 50 lb son from the car and ran right into a parking divider (one of those concrete things that keep you from running into the curb with your car) taking both of us for a fall. There were several people in the parking lot but all of them turned the other way, and I didn’t even hear one snicker as Christian proceeded to start crying and ask why I through him onto the sidewalk:) Luckily neither us were seriously hurt.
Amanda L
Thanks for telling us about your “friend.” I hope she is becoming one of THOSE parents. It really made me laugh…and I really needed it today:o)
Leighann I am humbled everytime I read an undate,I can only say that you are an amazing mom and I admire the job you are doing. I love your absolute faith that God is in control and you just let everyday be just that, an everyday day. I pray for baby Ryan and your family everyday and sometimes I feel compelled to pray at random times during the day. I understand this has nothing to do with the blog I just read but felt complelled to let you know you are in my heart and prayers. God Bless
One of my most recent embarrassing moments (believe me there have been more than one!): We went to Ocean City for a few days in early September. Unfortunately, it rained almost the entire time. One day it was only drizzling so we decided to go for a walk on the boardwalk. I had forgotten to pack sneakers so I was wearing flip-flops. I was walking, carrying Mia and pushing Leia in a stroller. I stepped on a white arrow painted on the parking lot and found out that that flip flops don’t have any traction whatsoever on wet paint. My feet flew out from under me and I landed smack on my butt! Not only did I fall, but I also broke Mia’s fall . . . ouch!!
I have also learned to laugh about it, especially when other people are watching! What else can you do? 🙂
funny!
Hope to see your friend and family sometime soon.
Love and prayers, Aunt Amelia
I’m sorry, but that is SOOOOOO funny!!!
I honestly can’t remember what the last embarressing thing I did was. I remember that I did indeed do something mortifying recently but apparently I’ve blocked it from my memory.