Stuck

I must explain my absence. On Monday night at work I was had given a patient a injection of insulin subcutaneously. I was pushing the safety cap down with my right hand while holding it and heard a "click" like usual. I proceeded to use my right hand to remove my gloves, as usual. When I felt it-- a poke through my gloves and prick on the knuckle of my left hand. "Crap" was my fist though, "this patient has hepatitis C". I freaked out ran to my charge nurse and I'll spare you all the details, but basically my main concern was breastfeeding Jacob. We worked so hard to establish breastfeeding and I was not ready to wean my baby over night. I spoke with the on-call infectious disease physician and was assured I am okay to breastfeed as Hep C is not passed though the breast milk. Only problem is this patient has a history of IV drug use and HIV status was unknown. The patients labs were drawn and I left the hospital after being told she was indeed HIV negative at this time. I was able to sleep from 0400-1000 am. I called Employee Health first thing in the am as instructed by the ER. (This is where it gets even more terrible)The employee health Nurse I spoke with told me there was an error and the patient's blood was never drawn. HIV is a time sensitive test and needed to be drawn within 3 hours after the incident. I am FRANTIC, LIVID, and SO FRUSTRATED because I had breastfed my baby since the incident only with the understanding that she was indeed negative. To make an even longer story shorter, The patient was drawn on time and was negative for HIV. However, if they were exposed with in the last 3 months they could still be infected but have sero-converted at that point. I will need to be rechecked at 3 and 6 months for Hep C and HIV. As of right now my labs were negative. I am grateful for a caring husband who has the Priesthood and was willing to come to the hospital and give me a blessing at 0100 am and sit with me in the emergency room.

*Side note: Eli had been in contact with an attorney that day because he had been rear ended by another driver that day, he ran my situation past him as well. So if anything does come of this we do have resources.

Today, Wednesday, Wisdom teeth are out and recovery is going well so far thanks to my sister-in-law Corinne and brother Nate who helped out so much with Jacob and I. Thanks!!!!

I just can't stop thinking about him: