As recently as the 1960s it was commonly believed that infants could feel no pain and surgery would be performed without anaesthetics. Sounds unbelievable to me, but a nurse told us today. Considering that, 2005 seems like a pretty good year to have been born. Nowadays they’re working on a brilliant method of determining how the child is feeling and if, and if so to what degree, it is in pain.
On a three grade scale they try to evaluate things like frowns, squinting, tensions in mouth and tongue, shivering chin, arm and leg movements, breathing patterns, crying and consolability. If the sum total exceeds a certain number, they administer pain relief. The higher the number, the higher the dose, I guess.
About this blog.
Abbe is the greatest little character. A fighter with a congenital heart defect. A sweetheart with a chromosomal aberration. These are my memos and thoughts from Abbes birth and on.
.... If you want to follow us from day one, please scroll to the bottom of the blog - to mid-March 2005.
....The postings are currently being translated from Swedish to English. Eventually we will reach todays date.
.... Then you can read it from the top, like a usual blog. About an unusual boy.
.... If you want to follow us from day one, please scroll to the bottom of the blog - to mid-March 2005.
....The postings are currently being translated from Swedish to English. Eventually we will reach todays date.
.... Then you can read it from the top, like a usual blog. About an unusual boy.
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- Bearing with it.
- Support in life.
- What can you say?
- Every-day-life at the 323.
- Big brother’s visit.
- Abbe is breathing.
- Help!
- Pain relief.
- No title
- Lots och technology for a small heart.
- Pediatric ICU.
- Surgery.
- The D-day.
- Mc Donald’s is great but there’s no place like home.
- Cardiologists and orthopedists.
- Crammed at the PICU.
- Waiting.
- Costly drops.
- By the bed.
- Ward 323.
- And pictures.
- Here’s how it works.
- Forget NYC Marathon.
- Odd birds.
- Pulmonalis Atresia with VSD.
- Polaroids
- Tough news.
- The neonatal fog.
- Control and chaos.
- Something's wrong.
- What you see is what you get?
- Born in Borås
- From the beginning.
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What does it mean?
"Heja Abbe & Brorsan" is Swedish and translates roughly into "Go Abbe & Bro". I didn't translate it because I kind of like the header the way it is.
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