As Day Forty-Three ends, Jenny’s vitals are ok minus her blood pressure being quite a bit low which has been a reoccurring issue. I was told she cried overnight. She was saying something about pain and not wanting to celebrate her birthday. The staff didn’t know how to stop her from crying until the nurse agreed that they wouldn’t celebrate her birthday anymore and that alone stopped it. She has been tolerating her clear liquid diet and enjoys the Jell-O in particular but is still eating much less than expected so the direct stomach tube feed is still running in full force.

Lastly, when I arrived today I noticed Jenny’s cozy mitt was taped on. This is extremely unusual because the cozy mitt has a built-in velcro to fasten itself. As I examined this further, whoever taped on this cozy mitt had taped directly onto Jenny’s skin and even worse, did not use the available cloth tape but instead chose to use the extremely sticky clear tape. Furthermore, they somehow thought it was ok to tape over her recovering post-op sutures. And amazingly that’s still not all, they had taped it so tightly that it also cut off proper circulation to her only working arm. This was extremely wrong on every level. Removing this tape caused Jenny an immense amount of pain because the tape was done overnight and it had melded into her skin from going unnoticed the entire day until I arrived. The assigned staff last night must have not known how to properly put on the cozy mitt and instead of asking how they instead picked out same random tape and taped it on. They chose the worst tape available and they even taped excessively tight over her recovering sutures. I am not angry, well I am but this anger pales in comparison to the animosity I felt from Day Thirty-Nine. I am mostly disappointed because I had to assist in removing the tape which put me in a position where I was involuntarily causing Jenny unnecessary pain from someone else’s mistake.