We lost one of our favorite nurses this week. She had been with us since Hannah was released from the hospital back in July 2010.
She has always been so wonderful with Hannah. You could see there was a real connection there between them. Even Ethan and Abigail enjoyed her company.
However, these past few months she had called out more than she had shown up for work. It was proving very difficult because it was always a rush for our agency to find us someone new, and more distressing was that Hannah was constantly having to have new nurses show up. When we have a new nurse, there is always an adjustment period, and we can’t go on about our daily lives because of this period.
Yesterday, however, she didn’t show up for her shift at all. Not a text or a phone call saying she would be late. Our agency never heard from her (although this was common). Two weeks in a row she left us hanging without a nurse, and the timing of all of this could not be worse with Daddy having quite a few out-of-town trips for work during the next three weeks. Today I had to stay up almost 28 hours because she wasn’t there and Daddy had to go to an event for his work.
I know she was going through some personal issues, but we finally had to agree with our agency that it was time to let her go. We can’t keep throwing new nurses at Hannah, and we also need reliability to know that when we have a nurse scheduled that she will be there. Having a nurse miss 15+ shifts out of almost 40+ is just too much. We put up with it because we really cared about her and how good she was with Hannah.
We are going to miss her terribly, and I honestly have no ill will towards her. Because she had spent so much time with us over the past 9 months, she felt like she was a member of our family. She was so good with Hannah, so good with all of us. When we told Abby and Ethan about it, Abby got really sad for a bit. She got attached to her too.
But it is time to move on. Our Monday-only nurse has agreed to take on more days to help cover this gap, which is a huge relief because she also is very good with Hannah. But I’m not sure how it is all going to come together.
I just hope we can get back into a routine where our nurses predictably show up so once we move I can work on getting my life in order, get away from the chaos we have been living in for the past few months.
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