What's that smell??? OH and snow day #2

It crept into my nostrils in the middle of the night.  The dreaded smell.  FORMULA. 

UGH.  I couldn't see anything right off.  I checked Colin first.  We feed Colin through an open syringe with the end of the feeding tube in it so it drips into his feeding tube extension so he gets the food, but it also lets any air buildup escape so his belly doesn't get distended with air that he may swallow from the bipap.  Anyway, it's happened before...either the feeding tube end falls out of the syringe, his tube came undone from his Mic-key button, or there was an air pocket and the syringe filled up and over flowed with formula.  Nope, his set up was perfect and running fine.  I glanced at Casey and didn't see anything unusual.  I was kind of stumped.  BUT, it was dark, and I didn't have my glasses on so I can't see very well without my glasses.  I could see that Casey's feeding bag end was attached properly to his extension.  I could see that the extension hadn't fallen out of his belly.  At this point, Gene has heard me so he comes in.  And, there it was.  The darn little med port had popped. 

Gene mopped up what he could, but later on I will have a massive clean up.  We have a supposedly waterproof mattress cover but the formula has seeped through before.  Time to get out the steamer!!

So, we won't be hanging out in bed all day in our pjs today since I'll have to get Casey out of bed to clean up.  I can't hardly stand the smell of the formula so I won't let it go too long but we will let them sleep in.

YES, the biggest snow storm of the season started yesterday, March 12th.  We got the robo call last evening that school was closed.  Casey was to have Paula here today, anyway, since we have no nurse for him and he would have only had two hours of school.  Colin was over-the-moon happy about no school since he would have had a normal full day.

Around 6 AM I got a call from the VNA that Karyna (Colin's nurse) wasn't going to make it in.  We had talked about it yesterday so we weren't surprised to hear.  From what I see outside it looks pretty nasty; windy, 10 degrees, and probably about a foot and a half of snow, with drifts much higher.  I can see there are cars traveling on Route 7 but they're going slower than normal.  I'm surprised to see any cars at all.

So, I'm awake for the day--at least until I get a nap.  I have the boys again tonight.  Staci missed last night because of the storm so she said she could work on Friday night instead.  I'll take it!