HeatherSue
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I am with Becca on her rules! If I ever need to have Lovenox injections again, I will post the same rules for myself!
I love that girl!

I am with Becca on her rules! If I ever need to have Lovenox injections again, I will post the same rules for myself!I love that girl!
Heather, when you had your Lovonox did it sting after you were given the shot?
Becca says that her belly has twinges inside at the shot site for a few minutes after.
I see you are going to Disneyland......How exciting!!!![]()
Day 70 - Remember the rules (April 16, 2009)
Today marks our ten week anniversary of being in Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Becca has continued to progress in her therapies, she still lacks endurance ans stamina but she lacked those before all of this happened.
This morning in PT Becca played Air Hockey stood at the air hockey table, the result was a tie of 1-1. Becca plays air hockey very cautiously as she hates to get her knuckle rapped by the puck. Her second PT session was leg stretches - which she abhors. The backs of her knees are still quite a lot higher than they should be when she is lying flat and so she is being given intensive stretches to try and straighten them out.
Today we the wheelchair man came in with an electric chair we are considering purchasing. Becca loves all the "Bells and Whistles" on it but is not so keen on the way it drives as it is not quite so easy to maneuver as the one she has been using. We are getting a chance to test it out over the weekend so no decision has to be made yet.
Becca is just finishing up opening the last of the presents out of the Giant Easter Basket from her church family. she would have finished last night but a bath took precedence so she still had presents to look forward to tonight.
David and Becca are now working together on making rules for her twice daily Lovonox shot that goes in her belly. The nurses giggle away at her instructions and have requested that she write the rules down to be posted on the wall so that they all know her preferences for her shot procedure.
Remember the rules:
1. Must be a crinkly occlusion bandage
2. Must be Emla cream, no substitute
3. Must not describe what is being done
4. Must take occlusion bandage off from the outside
5. Must take occlusion bandage off quickly
6. Must allow alcohol to dry completely before proceeding
7. Must be a thumb available to grasp at this point
8. Must say 3,2,1 before giving injection, not 1,2,3
9. Must not wipe with alcohol after injection
10.Must not wipe any blood off
11.Must not use a brown band-aid, only a blue patterned one
I love reading your updates too! I am following all of your blogs each day!Wow, can't believe you are counting in the 70's already! Praying for continued strength.
Oh, by the way, LOVE the rules for the Lovenox!! Anything to make all those shots easier!! Noah has been on them for a year now...so long that he barley notices them anymore. Mouth care is MUCH higher on the list of nasty things for him (much to everyone's surprise). Maybe we'll have to make up our own rules for that!