We had a minor freak out yesterday at the hospital. It probably wasn’t as big of a deal as I made it out to be (I hope). But it scared the piss out of me none the less.
All day Brady’s oxygen was all skewed on her face, spending less time in her nose and more time pressed into her cheer or lips. So just before we were about to leave I asked the nurse to adjust it. Well the cannula is held to her face by these two stickers that are stuck to either side of her head, kind of like double stick tape. They are adhered to her head then have a flap that you can pull down to stick the hose into, then close the flap. At the top of the flap is a small tab that allows you to grip the flap without getting stuck… you get the point.
There is a pic to kind of show you what I’m talking about.
Well the yellowish tab broke/tore off while the nurse was dicking with it and somehow ended up in Brady’s mouth. I just happened to be holding her and she opened her mouth while looking at me and I saw it on the back of her tongue. At that point I kinda flipped out, the nurse was acting like it was no big deal and after some fishing with her finger and a cotton square she managed to get it stuck to the roof of her mouth and then out.
She had said that has never happened before. /Sigh