Gavin had a very rough morning. He was struggling and that was even more apparent when it came to his IVIG infusion. I'm not sure where his head was at but we had problems.
Maybe he was distracted, preoccupied with thinking about one of his games or perhaps he had a pending mission on his mind. I don't know and I don't think he does either.
After dropping the boys off at school, I went walking in the rain. It wasn't too bad but getting wet is getting wet.
Anyway, while I was gone, Gavin was preparing his IVIG infusion. He does this every single Monday and Friday morning. Today however, something was different.
It's like he was backwards in what he was doing.
He opened the supplies, kept the wrapper and threw the actually equipment in the trash. Lizze caught him doing this and immediately stopped him. Gavin became flustered and his solution was to pull the tubing out of the trash and use it anyway.
She had him pull a new set of tubing and ensured he didn't do the same thing again.
I worry now because I'm wondering how many times this has happened before and we didn't know about it. How many times did he pull supplies out of the trash and use them anyway?
That's crazy dangerous and I don't know what he's thinking. Clearly he's not problem-solving this in an appropriate way. You can't throw sterile supplies into the trash, later realize it, pull the no longer sterile supplies back out of the trash and use them as though they were still sterile.
That's clearly a problem and just the fact that he tried to do this today, illustrates just how difficult a job we have with Gavin.
To most people, not trying to use the supplies after pulling them out of the trash would be commonsense. Unfortunately, Gavin doesn't possess commonsense and that has proven to be very problematic on many occasions.
He ended up using a new set of tubing but now we're short and will have to order a new one. I'm not sure how much they cost but I can't imagine it's more than $10.
Things like this are very frustrating and the reality is that Gavin probably didn't learn anything from this. That said, we've learned that we have to keep a much closer eye on him going forward and that will apply to multiple areas of his life.
