Location: OTTAWA!!!!!
Health status: stable
Wow. What a sega to get home yesterday.
Everything was going smoothly. An ambulance arrived to take us and a nurse to Billy Bishop airport. Our plane and crew welcomed us aboard and we took off without a hitch at 11am. Maeve slept the whole plane ride.
As we landed in Ottawa, our flight paramedic made a comment that hinted what was to unravel.
Paramedic: Great! Let’s see this time when our EMS will get here.
Maeve’s nurse and I exchanged surprised looks.
Paramedic: One time, we had to wait 3 hours before the Ottawa paramedics came.
Nurse and I: WHAT?!!!!!
We all wait anxiously in the plane as our paramedic phoned in our status.
Paramedic: Yeaaaaa, looks like there are no EMS available. Not sure when we’ll get out of here.
Me: Can I just call my husband to pick us up? We can all fit in the truck.
Paramedic: Uhhhhh, let me check. (Dials phone and quietly chats). No ma’am. Not possible.
Everyone gets off the plane and into the pilots lounge. Our nurse hurriedly hooks up Maeve’s meds. Maeve barfs all over me without warning.
Confusion ensues as we try getting a private patient transfer service to get us. One department says yes. A
hospital replies no. EMS is cancelled. We get bumped priority with the other service. EMS is recalled. Dana frantically waits at the hospital trying to find what’s causing the delay.
3.5 hours later, an ambulance arrives and takes us to CHEO. 😣
Maeve is now settled into CHEO for the next 2 weeks. I slept in my bed for the first time in a month and it was soooooooooooo wonderful.
Welcome home ladies! 🙋♀️🤙