Day 636 - James Gets a Trim 💇🏻♂️ & Equipment Failure ⚠️
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 Can you spot how many outfit changes James had today? 👕 🩳 His G-tube was leaking pretty bad. Today we decided to give James a haircut which was more like a trim. We took him outside and had him sit on Mom's lap while Aunt Robin trimmed him up. At first he was fine but then tried to grab the scissors ✂️ and cried the rest of the time. We think it was just too much all at once because it happened so quickly. During the time outside on the patio lanai we noticed that his pulse ox machine was not working. Of course, the one piece of equipment we did not bring a back-up of broke! This monitors his oxygen and heart rate. It showed an error "Replace Sensor". We did all the things...wiping the sensor with alcohol, changing the pulse ox probe, turning it on and off. We have a new RAD-G pulse oximeter and it is not our favorite. Since it was after hours and our DME would be closed we decided to text our sales rep for Masimo who we were connected wit...