Buried Acorns and other nuts

Last night I get called to the ED, It was a BS call, but as I.m hustling through the waiting room, a small Spanish dude in a pony tail comes running in from the parking lot carrying a baby and runs up to triage. They baby looks to be about a year old. He goes right in back and in seconds the kid is in code room 4 and they are calling respiratory STAT. The kid was a code. Dad's a junkie and is on methadone. Some of the staff recognized him. There is no mom in this picture, dad has custody. The kid found the methadone. Not breathing and intermittent pulse. They find out what happened and narcan the kid, whatever the narcan dose is for an infant. The kid comes around. About an hour later I walk by the room and the kid is sitting on the bed all alert, with dad sitting next to her. Someone expressed concern for brain damage, as they didnt know how long the kid was out, but she was discharged later on in the evening.

"We" lost a baby the other day (I was off). Young mom gave birth. Social worker is on the phone with DCF discussing taking the baby. Mom overhears this , creates a diversion, and when no one is looking, scoots out the door with the baby. Half hour goes by before baby is discovered missing. Mom had managed to defeat the infant abduction alarm system (details will not be posted).

The story ends OK. Mom, who went home, answered her cellphone and agreed to give back the infant. Baby comes back, DCF gets it the next day. Mom was not charged criminally, because mom had been discharged, and DCF had not yet taken custody. It could have gone a lot worse.

In other news, a patient at another hospital smuggled in a lighter and set fire in a room in the ED. We know what that's like.