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Do you stay home to do home ivs or go to work with ivs?
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BikerEd
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It cool to see so many that go to work When home IV'd. I can't cause I work in the field, no really the Site starts as a big open field, Soil, Grass, Trees, and then Bang! we have a building.....
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BikerEd
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It cool to see so many that go to work When home IV'd. I can't cause I work in the field, no really the Site starts as a big open field, Soil, Grass, Trees, and then Bang! we have a building.....
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BikerEd
Guest
It cool to see so many that go to work When home IV'd. I can't cause I work in the field, no really the Site starts as a big open field, Soil, Grass, Trees, and then Bang! we have a building.....
mamaScarlett
Active member
Home for sure. I view IVs as a substitute for when I'd otherwise be in the hospital. So I make my house the hospital for 2 weeks. After the 2 weeks though, as long as I'm improving, I do what I need to and resume normal schedule.
mamaScarlett
Active member
Home for sure. I view IVs as a substitute for when I'd otherwise be in the hospital. So I make my house the hospital for 2 weeks. After the 2 weeks though, as long as I'm improving, I do what I need to and resume normal schedule.
mamaScarlett
Active member
Home for sure. I view IVs as a substitute for when I'd otherwise be in the hospital. So I make my house the hospital for 2 weeks. After the 2 weeks though, as long as I'm improving, I do what I need to and resume normal schedule.
imported_Momto2
New member
Yes, I would still train and compete horses with an IV. When I was in college/grad school, I still attended classes and carried on as usual, just making sure I got plenty of rest. My doc wasnt thrilled with the whole riding with an IV thing though, cant imagine why! heheh, about 6 years ago, my hubby and eldest daughter had the flu, he was too sick to watch the baby. My IV infiltrated at 1 in the AM....I ended up packing our 4 month old into her carrier and trotting into the ER to have the line replaced, which of course took about 4 hours since I am a hard stick. Youngest daughter was/is a gem. I rocked her and fed her with one arm as they tried to get a line into the other! You do what you have to. Two thumbs up for those IV balls!
imported_Momto2
New member
Yes, I would still train and compete horses with an IV. When I was in college/grad school, I still attended classes and carried on as usual, just making sure I got plenty of rest. My doc wasnt thrilled with the whole riding with an IV thing though, cant imagine why! heheh, about 6 years ago, my hubby and eldest daughter had the flu, he was too sick to watch the baby. My IV infiltrated at 1 in the AM....I ended up packing our 4 month old into her carrier and trotting into the ER to have the line replaced, which of course took about 4 hours since I am a hard stick. Youngest daughter was/is a gem. I rocked her and fed her with one arm as they tried to get a line into the other! You do what you have to. Two thumbs up for those IV balls!
imported_Momto2
New member
Yes, I would still train and compete horses with an IV. When I was in college/grad school, I still attended classes and carried on as usual, just making sure I got plenty of rest. My doc wasnt thrilled with the whole riding with an IV thing though, cant imagine why! heheh, about 6 years ago, my hubby and eldest daughter had the flu, he was too sick to watch the baby. My IV infiltrated at 1 in the AM....I ended up packing our 4 month old into her carrier and trotting into the ER to have the line replaced, which of course took about 4 hours since I am a hard stick. Youngest daughter was/is a gem. I rocked her and fed her with one arm as they tried to get a line into the other! You do what you have to. Two thumbs up for those IV balls!
Incomudrox
New member
I don't have a port but, when I had had PICCs 30 or so admissions in the last 4-5 years I have always gone to work. I worked with the public at one of my jobs for two years, I would just wear a hoodie and put the grenade in my hoodie pocket and then take the 2-3 min to hook up or disconnect in back where customers could not see. No one ever had any idea. I once did an entire engine swap with a PICC line and doing antibiotics simultaneously, in my same normal no PICC line time of 1 day. I have never let IV's at home stop me from doing anything.
Incomudrox
New member
I don't have a port but, when I had had PICCs 30 or so admissions in the last 4-5 years I have always gone to work. I worked with the public at one of my jobs for two years, I would just wear a hoodie and put the grenade in my hoodie pocket and then take the 2-3 min to hook up or disconnect in back where customers could not see. No one ever had any idea. I once did an entire engine swap with a PICC line and doing antibiotics simultaneously, in my same normal no PICC line time of 1 day. I have never let IV's at home stop me from doing anything.
Incomudrox
New member
I don't have a port but, when I had had PICCs 30 or so admissions in the last 4-5 years I have always gone to work. I worked with the public at one of my jobs for two years, I would just wear a hoodie and put the grenade in my hoodie pocket and then take the 2-3 min to hook up or disconnect in back where customers could not see. No one ever had any idea. I once did an entire engine swap with a PICC line and doing antibiotics simultaneously, in my same normal no PICC line time of 1 day. I have never let IV's at home stop me from doing anything.
I've done both but the time's i've gone back to work i didn't see as much benefit from the IVs because i wasn't able to fit in working and getting more vest in (usually 4x/day when doing IVs for me as opposed to my normal 2x/day) so for me personally going to work while doing IVs is a waste of time because i don't get as much benefit and end up getting sicker quicker in the future. if you're able, i absolutely recommend taking time off to do the full course of antibiotics at home or in the hospital.
I've done both but the time's i've gone back to work i didn't see as much benefit from the IVs because i wasn't able to fit in working and getting more vest in (usually 4x/day when doing IVs for me as opposed to my normal 2x/day) so for me personally going to work while doing IVs is a waste of time because i don't get as much benefit and end up getting sicker quicker in the future. if you're able, i absolutely recommend taking time off to do the full course of antibiotics at home or in the hospital.
I've done both but the time's i've gone back to work i didn't see as much benefit from the IVs because i wasn't able to fit in working and getting more vest in (usually 4x/day when doing IVs for me as opposed to my normal 2x/day) so for me personally going to work while doing IVs is a waste of time because i don't get as much benefit and end up getting sicker quicker in the future. if you're able, i absolutely recommend taking time off to do the full course of antibiotics at home or in the hospital.
I'm a teacher, so it's difficult to miss work. I do IVs at school, and my students just get used to it. They're amazingly un-bothered by the whole thing, and I answer any questions they have about it.
Sometimes I have to stay home and get some extra rest for a day here and there while doing the IVs, though, and one time I finally had to just do half days for the whole course. I agree it's not worth it to push too hard.
Sometimes I have to stay home and get some extra rest for a day here and there while doing the IVs, though, and one time I finally had to just do half days for the whole course. I agree it's not worth it to push too hard.