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Lines

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Sam ‘s got several different lines and every day I untangle the dilaudid drip from the saline or now the TPN and the oxygen line that somehow manages to sneak it’s way in there.  Unfortunately after checking the pumps and pausing them for mirapenum and other infusions all day they are completely snarled again by the following day.  It’s similar […]

Bonescan Today

Friday, March 5th, 2010

I am sitting in clinic watching a sleeping Sam waiting to go to Nucmed for a bonescan.  We are doing a bonescan in preparation for a possible samarium infusion at UCSD.  It’s a radiation treatment.  Sam would be the second kid to try it from Rady’s, the first patient had great success although she wasn’t […]

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