My First Weekend at McMaster

My first weekend at Mcmaster was a scary one for me, my mom and dad.  My blood chemistry was a rollercoaster, and the nurses and Dr. Kozenko worked hard and fast to try to get my blood gases as stable as possible.  Everything they tried to give me just didn't seem to work.  I was taken off feedings and I was given a saline/dextrose solution through my IV instead. The Dr.s and nurses kept changing my solutions to get a combination that seemed to keep me relatively stable.  My IVs would periodically stop working so they had to keep finding new veins in my head/feet/arms.  By the end of the weekend I was somewhat stable.  I was still very sleepy, hardly waking for my standard heel pokes.