New IV

So today was a BAD day!!!  It all started at about 7 this morning, the IV team (supposed to be the experts) comes in to draw blood and tell me they are going to go ahead and put in a new IV since the other was getting bad.  Well 15 minutes and a very distraught and sweaty child later they've got their blood but he has no IV.  They couldn't find a good vein.  They poked him twice and couldn't get a good vein.  They let us know they would be back in about noon to "try" again since he had antibiotics coming at 2.  1:30 comes
around and here they come with there horrid needles and bad judgment once again.  2 more pokes and again 15 minutes or so later they get a vein.  My poor little Avery passed out after all the commotion.  The rest of the day was alright he got a brand new Woody toy for all the trouble, which he liked very much.  He also got the rest of his beads of courage that he was owed for the past two and a half weeks.  Twenty something beads in just over two weeks (he's been through a lot) and he needs a new string before he can get anymore. 

He has had 3 blood cultures and they have all been negative for infection but they will continue to watch them over the next couple of days to make sure they don't grow anything.  Planning that all goes well we will be coming home Monday. 

We also had a little mishap tonight.  When his evening nurse came in to administer his antibiotics we ran into a problem... the machine was saying the IV was blocked.  Well it was flushing, there were no kinks, and everything looked fine.  So she called in for a second opinion.  That second opinion ended up with 4 other nurses in here holding him down to change the dressing because they felt that it was too tight causing the problem.  Once that was done everyone left and she then tried to start the antibiotics again... same thing, it was saying that there was a blockage.  Come to find out, there is this little clamp on the line just down from the pump.... YEP!!! It was locked!  All of that for nothing.  WOW what a day.