I also worked in Peds. I have memories of 3 little girls. One was just a few months old. She had brittle bones. We had to be so careful changing her. Could break her bones so easy. She had a broken arm when she arrived in the hosp. Had to keep it ace bandaged to her little body. Another was a little girl about 3. She had deformed hips. She was in a spika cast with a bar between her ankles. A mother, not hers decided to help feed her one night, left the rail down on th crib & just stepped away & the little girl fell out of the crib. Cut a big gash in her head. The other girl was 12. She had lukemia & eventually died. Poor little thing spent most of her short life in the hospital. I still have the card her parents sent to me thanking me for caring for their daughter. But I mostly worked in the tonsillectomy ward & in Peds admitting. Also did some ER & general floor.

Oh yes another little girl was in a coma & had been for a long time. She was 5. I don't remember why, but she also had kidney disease. She had a feeding tube. She wasn't in my ward, but the nurses gave her extra attention. Her mother hardly ever came to see her. I left the hospital, so I don't know what happened to her. We got so many upper respiratory patients. That wasn't my ward either.

I liked Peds. It felt so good to send little ones home well, but hard to lose them when they couldn't get better. I liked the hosp. work so much better than the nursing home. At least we did send people home. Not usually so in the nursing home.

I worked in St. Anthony's hosp. in Rockford Il. Dale also worked there part time.