I'm getting out of work an hour early today YAY!!!!

Travis is going out so I have to watch my niece.

I am not at all happy about this and I am going to need to find stuff for her and Lucas to do or they may drive me crazy.

I am not eating or drinking enough this week

Consequently my head is pounding and I am starving

I cannot wait to go home.

Taaaab! Yay!

That sucks about your yard. Ugh!

work is going well, better than it has in awhile actually.  i've been working in our "fast track" area a lot the past few months all the while aiming to find myself a permanent place there. its the 'clinic' portion of the ER and i really like it much better.  better teamwork, enjoy my coworkers, more autonomy, etc.

ER fun:

a patient of ours was a girl i went to HS with. we werent friends or anything, but we remember each other.  she came in for what appeared to be a UTI. the PA comes out and says we need to do a pelvic exam. (we avoid doing pelvics in the fast track area). here's why:

pt: "my husband left me 2 mos ago, so i was using my dildo the other night.  but i put a condom on it so i wouldn't get it dirty and i think the burning might be from the condom."

naturally she told this to the PA and not to me. he was of course mortified. there's a multitude of ways she could have voiced that concern without all the sordid details, LOL. then she was all weirded out by me assisting in the pelvic exam, which is understandable. then of course when the PA told me her story i blurt out with "doesn't she know they sell special cleaners for that kind of stuff?" and that netted me several looks.

i've never purchased any of those but i was at a loss for a quick explanation as to how i know that.

more from the ER:

1. we shocked a pt the other day (shocked him into a better rhythm, he wasnt coding -yet-) after the jolt, he says "that was quite a shock!" hahahaha. he was obviously kind of out of it before we did all that so he didnt have a good understanding of what we were fixing to do. we did it twice, actually and afterwards when he was feeling much better and pinking up he kept asking what took the 'sickness' out of him.

2. mom brings kid in for burn to abdomen & hands. in triage we discover she 'treated' his burn with TOOTHPASTE! ow!

3. lady for 10/10 abdominal pain. says to the triage nurse "i really like your makeup"
nurse: "thank you"
pt: "is it avon?"
nurse: "no"
pt: <reaches under her chair> "because i have this avon book with me..." <tries to sell avon to triage nurse, in triage!>

4. pt: "i was eating a pancake/sausage roll and i found a rat tail in it"
us: "she's stupid"
disposition: it was really in there! eewwwwwwwww!!

5. pt: "i think some worms crawled in my leg wound while i was fishing"
us: "huh?"
disposition: his tendons were flexing near his wound.

ah- not funny, but notable on novelty alone.

20ish guy comes in for overdose. uncooperative (well, for me anyway. im not sure what i did to evoke that in him.) after an hour we have no pee, which we really need.

finally i go to cath him. he argues that he can pee when he goes to take a "s--t"

i pull back the sheets. all i see is WOOD! aarrggh! ive never ever had that happen! it was so weird and awkward!

it didnt work either.

well, that was great fun. but i have to go pay a ticket. (boo)

then i need to actually get off my duff and do something (like clean)

ttyl!

Glad to see some old friends here!

Allison - That doesn't sound good.

Eff 5.

Or F5, I forget.

You get the drift.

(Actually DON'T F5.)