Working Girl

Well, I haven't been to work since Jan. 31st. I have been called off due to low work load. So today when I got the call to come in I jumped on it. But it had been so long that I have been there that my password had expired. So I had to mess with IS all evening to get that going again.
And then there was little Ayden. He is five years old, and very smart. And he has been feeling sooooo much better and very bored . His Mom looked like shit. Ayden is this precocious red haired cutey pie that you just want to choke after two minutes dealing with him. He was attached to an IV, yet he was climbing the TV, which is attached to a mechanical extension from the wall. He scared me. He was ratting on his Mom for "treating him inappropriately", his words. And he was wanting to "turn her in to the authorities". His words. EEEEE! Makes me worried.
It was a pretty busy evening, and I had to get my sea-legs again.The highlight of the night is when a code -blue was called on my floor,4th and I was on the first and the elevator was not moving fast enough. So I proceded to run the stairs....feeeling very guilty about one of my patients that was in critical condition , but I thought I had it under control. Yet, it had to be him that was coding, who else could it be? After running up the stairs only to find....No it was little Ayden, pushing all his buttons. God love him.You would not believe the response a hospital has to a code blue. There were people everywhere. Emergency physicians, pharmacy staff, laboratory,nursing....a ton of people! Here is little Ayden....and his mother on the phone, not knowing just exactly what he had done.
When I saw him later on , he said, "Do you know that I can get kicked out of the hospital for pushing buttons?" I said really? And his mother just sat there, waiting for him to go to sleep.