8.3.21 Inpatient 37

The hospital is highly overwhelmed right now. There are so many patients that there isn’t room for them to wait in the ED for a room (like we did). Our nurse yesterday discharged one patient and before the room was even cleaned the next family was waiting in the hall. They are discharging whoever they can and cancelling surgeries. Many kids coming in with RSV and other “winter” bugs that were delayed, plus the typical “summer” sicknesses of flus, ect. 

What this means for us is that the staff are all stretched much more thin. They are working many more shifts in a row than they typically do. Especially the RTs, RNs, and CNAs. Even the Environmental Services has been lacking compared to normal. 

We are feeling this stress particularly right now as we just found out that they do not have more of Aimee’s food. We started reminding them a couple of days ago that they had only brought us 5 days worth, so we were almost out. Somehow there was nothing done about it. Last night they told us that it would be a few days until they have more. :( We are moving her back to the old formula that we personally have on hand until they can get the new for her again. Grrr. This is unfortunately going to set us back several days here. We will have to re-transfer back to the new food once they have it and increase again. :( Disappointing.