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Posted on July 18, 2011 by claytonhill

Karate Kid–part IV … weekend wrap up

That’s the take home visual for the weekend … Here’s the scene: 3 nurses trying to catheterize a centurion female (100+ years old!) patient for a urine sample. One might assume, due to her age she would have decreased mobility and flexibility! Wrong!! In the midst of this sterile procedure, Great Grandma yells out – …

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Posted on July 11, 2011 by claytonhill

Raindrops on roses … helps the medicine go down (?)

Week-end wrap-up: Some light moments scattered within are what got me through this weekend … While pretty painful during the process – now that I’ve survived it, we had some comical scenes. Lots of unnecessary drama (WHAT IS IT with 20-somethings, anyway???) … And while I can’t get as deep into detail as I’d love …

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Posted on July 4, 2011 by claytonhill

Happy 4th of July … weekend wrap up

I received a major sublimatable shipment on Friday … even my daughter was saying I’d outgrown the studio … But, in the meantime, I did a little dye-sub before going to work this weekend … I now have a new flag welcoming [me] … And, we put my pretty flowers (MINUS mulch) to good use …

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Posted on June 27, 2011 by claytonhill

Weekend wrap up – Balloon Fest

There are three weekends that I really don’t like working … Balloon Fest, Easy Rider and Melon Fest (and for fun – many years Easy Rider and Melon Fest are on the SAME weekend!) … Too many people crammed together in a small town, lots of alcohol flowing freely on a hot summer night … …

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Posted on June 20, 2011 by claytonhill

Weekend Wrap Up … just another day in paradise

It was a busy weekend. This weekend I refused to get sucked into anyone’s Jerry-Springer-drama (be it the twenty-something’s ‘crisis’ [can you say ‘vomited for 2 whole hours’?] or a co-worker’s overload tantrum) … Did that make me come off as uncaring? Maybe. But here’s what I saw: A heart rate climb to 195+ beats …

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Posted on June 13, 2011 by claytonhill

A Cure for Insomnia … AKA Weekend Wrap Up

OH MY GOSH … What a weekend! Pneumonia, DKA, hyperemesis gravidarum, S/P Cardiac Arrest (talking and smiling, no less), overdoses, alcohol poisonings, anoxic brain injury, R/O peritonitis, COPD exacerbation, GI bleed … and that’s just Sunday night! Every patient I touched was sick (admitted or transferred). This is my little country ER – not some …

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Posted on June 7, 2011 by claytonhill

Summer Nights and DARN SANE

Weekend update: Just another drunk summer weekend … We had lots of alcohol-involved visits. Probably made the new computer program transition more bearable for the patients. Kind of wish I could have been inebriated too (darn computers anyway), but … a great crew helped! Had the monthly DARN SANE meeting this morning … on a …

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Posted on June 3, 2011 by claytonhill

Busy, busy, busy …

I got a few things done in the studio this week … not as much as I’d like. My dichro badge reels are running in the kiln as I type. Got some 45+ bottles de-labeled and sanitized … I received a new shipment from one of my glass stores – I have a new mobile …

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Posted on May 30, 2011 by claytonhill

Happy Memorial Day …

I could do a lot of (justified) whining and griping about this weekend … but why bother? It doesn’t change anything … So – instead … I will wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day(!) … be thankful for so many things … and focus on the week ahead (away from the ER, patients, families, visitors, …

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Posted on May 23, 2011 by claytonhill

‘Crabby Sue’ … Weekend Wrap Up

That was me this weekend … I need to apologize (again) to my co-workers. A week of too little sleep had me too short-tempered to be around. The bad news … I don’t see any additional sleep coming this week – as we are still on pup-watch with Sienna, supplemental feeding Mattie’s pups and keeping …