Tyler's Medicine Routine

Okay, here's the thing, if I'm going to do something on a regular basis I would like for it to be:

a.) fun

b.) cute

c. ) fun and cute at the same time.

So, since these meds will be in our home IN ABUNDANCE for the next 6 weeks and they will be used 3 TIMES each day, I will make them easily accessible and fun to look at it:

we have here, from left to right: pink bucket=saline syringes, blue flashlight for 4 am meds, orange bowl full of alcohol swabs, fresh red tulips, green bucket=heparin syringes.

wash hands thoroughly.
15 seconds of alcohol on entrance site.

adequate distraction for 4 year old
administer first syringe filled with saline to clear picc line.

repeat alcohol swab for another 15 seconds.

make sure other children are accounted for.
preferably in place with food/entertainment/both.Administer antibiotics for 5 minutes. Squirt. Wait one minute. Squirt. Wait one minute, etc. Yet another alcohol swab for 15 seconds.

check on children again.
smile when little brother is caring for little sister.

Administer another syringe full of saline to wash the picc line clean of all antibiotics. you guessed it, another alcohol swab.

fill picc line with heparin to ensure no blood clots form in the line until the next round.

laugh at clown.

discard trash, (or wash a few out and use as bath toys).
Repeat 3 times a day, every 8 hours.

"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes
the same substance
given with different intents."
~Peter Mere Latham

p.s. tomorrow is a little boys birthday that i love very much.