Well I have to tell you...I love Meritcare Children's. Colt's Pediatrician was out today so I spoke to one of her nurses around 7:45am and by 10am she had called back and talked everything over with the on-call Pediatrician and they ended up double-booking Dr. Welle (great Dr. and the Ped for a number of people I know) and getting us in for his last appt of the day so as to give him some extra attention. That nurse (Anne) was just awesome - I talked to her 2x today and I had a strange feeling when we walked in, that the check-in people and some of the nurses were looking at us differently like they had been 'waiting to see us' - so I have a feeling Anne had probably mentioned our situation and that we were coming in. After we got in the room we got a knock and it was Anne the phone nurse and she said she just wanted to stop in and say hi and let us know she was thinking of us and that we can call and talk to her directly anytime and she would get us whatever help we needed:) She also told us a story about her grandson - she was just great! So nice. Welle came in and said, 'Wow, I can see it must have been pretty scary to walk in the room and see him in that situation (obviously from what he was seeing - as we had all the bandages taken off)'...We were with him and/or the nurse for an hour and he said we (or should I say Shelly and John) had been doing a great job at the bandaging and care and they all looked really good (except the 3 bad areas on his arm)...so we got to keep the bandages off his face, ear and back. He gave me some instruction on care for the side of his head (that went well tonight) and didn't seem to think he should have hair loss in that area and as S & J had also agreed, doesn't think he'll have any scarring on his face or back.
He took measurements, concentrating on the wounds on his wrist and back of his arm and decided we should bandage the areas back up, rather than try to debride any of it as he wanted to speak to one of the surgeons and also see if he thought Colt would need any skin grafting done (NOT good, so lets all cross our fingers for that). The surgeon on call wasn't available and it was about 5:15 so he just said he would get in contact with us. Anne the phone nurse called and left a long message on my of course dead cell phone around 5:30 or a little later stating Dr Welle got us in with Dr. Briggs, a surgeon, Tuesday morning at 9am and it will really be up to him how the wound care goes and if there would be any question of surgical wound care or skin grafting. Again, to attest to the greatness of Anne, she literally left me her working hours tomorrow and her and Dr. Welle's direct phone line to get through to her/them if we need anything. They said the wound nurses wouldn't typically see him being he's so young and these types of situations with young kids are then referred to surgeons. So other than all that, we'll have to see what Dr. Briggs has to say in the morning I guess and hope for the best. On a side note, when we got home we had like 2 missed calls from some home number in W. Fargo and then the phone rang again with a cell phone number with the same name, Corey answered it and it was Anne again, trying to track us down and said she knew we were in Casselton and being the appt is early tomorrow, she just wanted to keep calling us to be sure we heard her message...so she kept calling us from her home and cell phones...totally above and beyond of her to do and very appreciated!
Ok, more to come tomorrow...
Thanks all,
Kelly
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