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Well it all started off this morning when a really sick baby who has a floppy airway managed to lose his breathing tube.

We couldn't get it back in.

He died.

And that was how the day started.

Then I had to go pick up a transport from another hospital. I'm told that the baby's fine and stable on room air and it'll be a milk run. But when I get over there, the history I get is that the baby has bad gastroesophageal reflux, which manifest as "death spells." A death spell is where the baby suddenly looks like he's going to die. They're a bit skeery...

So they fed the baby, stuffed him in the isolette, and off we went in the ambulance...and halfway back to the hospital what should happen but...yeah...you guessed it...all the jostling and what-not....he refluxed... and his heart rate dropped. And his O2 saturation dropped...and he went into a full-blown death spell.

So we slapped the baby around, and lifted him up and blew oxygen in his face and turned on the sirens and then a police car escorted us and wow, I felt so damned *important!* And scared as all hell... The baby was fine.

And I got back to learn that our team had taken a new admission, which thankfully isn't *too sick* but is going to involve a fair amount of work.

Oh what a rotten day it was...

-Mike

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