Managed to get through the weekend with limited pain from the patients of Easy Rider. Did have a few memorable moments … this one sums it up best, I think: A 6 foot, “220 pound” (mmhmn, yeah – and I weigh 120 pounds!) GENTLEMAN – who just happened to be in ‘the vicinity’ of Easy …
Didn’t make it to work this weekend … so no whining to be done. Hold on a second – I can always whine about something. I know, I can share a ‘reserve’ story … You know you’re a momma’s boy if: You’re in your 40’s and you come to the ER telling anyone who will …
there is a season … Time to move on? Maybe. I don’t know. I really don’t like change, but … Had a few interesting things come up (out?) this weekend: Delivered our first baby in our ER. Yep, in the middle of the night with a full, backed-up ED and ambulances steady bringing in patient …
The twins came home from camp … missed us so much they took 10 steps in the door, dropped their laundry and ‘stuff’ in the middle of the entry and plopped down on the couch in front of the TV … Are you kiddin’? Not their best move … And then off to work I …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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