Adventures in IV Land

After his successful port removal on Thursday, David had a catheter put into his vein on his left arm that would be replaced every three days so he can receive his antibiotics/etc.  Today, a home health nurse came by to show Shanna how to give him the IV antibiotics... and what is supposed to be a 5 minute project turned into an hour long struggle to figure out whether or not the catheter was working properly.  Eventually, the nurse gave up, removed that catheter, and put a new catheter into a vein on his right hand and was at long last, able to give him his antibiotic dose for the day.  Hurray!

These sorts of stories are what I will now refer to as Adventures in IV Land.  IV Land like a video game where you wonder around a vast wilderness with a hand-written, water-stained, barely legible map translated from Latin that is supposed to lead you to your hidden treasure (magnificent hydration, invaluable antibiotics, and a genie in a bottle named Taxitare).  You have to be very careful because you are surrounded and distracted by evil bacteria disguised as an unobtrusive objects like an innocent light switch or a ringing phone, and every time you crest a mountain or round a curve in the trail, you think you're set, almost there, the treasure will be yours in no time, muuuahhahaha and then you get stuck in quicksand, have to search high and low for tiny vines (read veins) that seem to always be right outside your reach, and finally when you've done it! You made it to the bonus round!  Your queen will be so happy!  You celebrate!  And then you realize that you will be sailing off to the next adventure in the morning. 

Ahhhh, to the life of an adventurer.

(I must give credit to the newest Indiana Jones movie for inspiring me to write this story. However, Shanna and I do not recommend it, giving it a failing grade of a D+.  Thank you NetFlix).

If you have any great movies you think Shanna and the fam would enjoy, please leave their titles in the comments section.  We go through movies like Lance Armstrong crosses finish lines, fast and smiling.  (Shanna's favorite genres include happy movies, musicals, foreign films, and nothing sad, with too much drama, or scary).