Ellen and Lindsay
I didn't get to see the show today. Wish I had. Looks like they covered a lot of territory.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
It's humor, people!
I found this clip on Margaret Cho's blog:
Too funny!
Joanne and I spent a week there last summer when we were married.
LOVED it. Would love to go back.
But then I am a fucking liberal faggot.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Carter Twins
I don't listen to Country Music too often, so I'm just now finding this song. It was released in January. I don't know how much air play these guys get, but I hope more soon. I think they are adorable and I love this song. It totally makes me homesick!
The Carter Twins with Heart Like Memphis:
Hope it's an easy Monday on everyone!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Field Trip
Today was unusual. Not because of the code blue, but because of what happened next. It's not every day that I get to leave my unit, much less my hospital while I'm still on the clock:
08:15 - Crash and burn.
08:16 - Yell and hit the code button.
08:17 - Grab the crash cart. Charge. Shock.
08:18 - 10:00 - Team arrives. We get a good rhythm back. We lose it. We get it back. Lose it. Get it back. Chest compressions. Airway management. Pushing meds. Getting EKG. Patient stabilizes... sort of... We decide that dude has had a major heart attack. We call in the cath lab team because it's a Sunday and they aren't in house. We need to get those blocked vessels opened asap.
10:30 - Team is here. Roll with patient to the cath lab.
11:00 - 12:00 - Can't open blocked vessels. They will need to be surgically bypassed in the O.R. This is a specialized procedure that not every hospital offers. Ours doesn't, but our big sister hospital does.
12:30 - Call big sister hospital. Secure an ICU bed and arrange for transport.
13:00 - I'm bouncing around in the back of the ambulance, scrunched between my patient's gurney and his newly placed intra-aortic balloon pump. It's pouring rain. The lights are flashing. The sirens are screaming. Make a hole. Coming through.
13:15 - 14:00 - Safe arrival and deposit.
14:30 - I'm dropped back at my E.R. door.
15:00 - Back to my unit and taking report on two new patients.
15:01 - I wanna go on another ride :o(
P.S. The EMTs were real sweethearts and apparently Def Leppard fans. I will never hear the lyrics, "Pour some sugar on me..." again without thinking about today. I gotta admit it can be fun when everything comes together.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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