Night time adventure

You young moms expect to get up during the night with your little ones. I thought I'd share with you what my "little one" did to me last night. I got up to go to the bathroom and I could smell TPN. I never smell TPN when it is running in. My plan was to take care of business and then check out the TPN. Then I noticed drops of blood on my floor. My brain wasn't working too well but I was beginning to figure out what the problem was. The end of my IV line has a replaceable end cap. The end cap had worked itself loose from my iv line but was still attached to my line infusing in. I saw the TPN puddleing on the floor but what about the blood? I lifted up my red pajamas and saw that I had a pretty good soaking of blood. When the iv line has nothing connected to it, it has nothing to stop the blood from returning up through it. It was not pouring out, just a slow, steady drip. My troubleshooting skills were a bit slow, but I did get both lines clamped. Then I got a new end cap and alcohol swabs. I was able to get humpty-dumpty put back together again. I'm sure Jami and Sharon are more careful than I am so those kind of things don't happen to them.

I apologize if you don't understand what I am trying to say, but let me just put it this way. My connection came apart and fluid was coming out of both ends. And I had messes to clean up. Now I am just hoping that I scared off all those nasty bugs that were lurking aroung so I don't get a line infection.