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Triage

Please do not come into be triaged with the following complaints..........

I am tired, I feel phat, my feets is big and stinky!!

Your pregnant for god sakes, for the 100th time....did you not notice with pregnancy 90 through 99, that you are fat because your pregnant, let alone tired because of the same reason.....as for your feet, yup, they are big,(try getting off of them a few hour a day), and Good Lord they did stink! Now go home and rest!

Last Night

Last night really was a bad night at work to say the least! I do not know what it is about the month of December and losing babies. Maybe it is because this month is usually regarded as a, "happy/holy" month? Mother and Fathers are so excited to deliver, knowing that their little one(s) will be getting the best of care our hospital can offer, after all........ "hope lives here". But, last night my mother delivered twins, both stillborns, full term. They looked absolutely perfect in every way. The loss was devastating and I am still numb.

Sunday Stealing

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger called Christina from Call Me Patsy She states that she lifted the meme that "she's seen everyone doing". Not us however, until today. It was probably stolen by the author of that blog, as well. But that is as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing! Cheers to all us thieves! Sunday Stealing: The TV Meme

1. Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice: Gilligan's Island

2. Name a show you can't miss: NCIS

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show: Hugh Laurie

4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show: Arnold Schwarzenegger

5. Name a show you can, and do, quote from: House- EVERYONE LIES!!

6. Name a show you like that no one else enjoys: Any of the E! shows-100 best/worst dresses/actors/divorces etc..of all times.....

7. Name a TV show which you've been known to sing the theme song: Laverne and Shirley

8. Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch: House

9. Name a TV series you own: The Soprano's

10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but has surprised you with his/her acting chops in television: Alec Baldwin

11. What is your favorite episode of your favorite series? House is House

12. Name a show you keep meaning to watch, but you just haven't gotten around to yet: 30 Rock and 24

13. Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad? Desperate Housewives

14. Name a show that's made you cry multiple times: Extreme Home Makeover

15. What do you eat when you watch TV? It depends on the time of day

16. How often do you watch TV? It depends on my work schedule, sometimes I do not watch any TV and sometimes I'll watch up to 4 hours

17. What's the last TV show you watched? NCIS-there is a marathon on right now

18. What's your favorite/preferred genre of TV? Crime Drama, News and Entertainment Shows

19. What was the first TV show you were obsessed with? Twin Peaks and the X-files

20. What TV show do you wish you never watched? Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew- because I've been hooked since season 1.

21. What's the weirdest show you enjoyed? Twin Peaks

22. What TV show scared you the most? I would have to say, there have been 3 shows that scared me from time to time, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files and Friday the 13th series.

23. What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched? Monk

Grow Up!

My patient came in to be induced, and when she started into hard-core labor, her husband was sitting on the sofa coloring is his coloring book for goodness sakes, she said it calms him. Maybe by the time she has the baby he will be finished with the picture and we can hang it up in the unit!!!!!!

I swear I can not make this crap up!

When to call 911

A man came home to find out he was being burglarized, he was given a Colombian necktie.....he managed to get out of his home while the robbers were upstairs stealing his personal belongings....he managed to drive himself to the hospital....3 miles away, park his car, ride the elevator down and walk to the back of the hospital where the ER is located....once he was walked into the Er, he was immediately taken to the trauma were he was trying to hand his ticket to the nurses to have the ticket validated...he is 86 years old.... God Bless!!!!!

Much unlike the 25 year old male who has vomited one time in the past two days, and decides to call 911 for the free ride to the ER while he has two cars parked in the driveway!! Good Grief!!

sunday stealing

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger called Carmen at the blog Mom to the Screaming Masses. She states that she lifted the meme from Mim's site. It was probably stolen by the author of that blog, as well. But that is as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!

Enjoy!

Sunday Stealing: The Sreaming Masses' Meme
1. What is a nickname a former (or present) lover gave you? Love Kitten--MEOW!!!

2. How do you style your hair? If you just would say "cut" what style is it? Yes, I do style my hair, but when I go to my hairdresser, I usually let her decide on the cut---I decided over this past year I want it to grow longer, so she is mostly clipping the ends

3. What's your least favorite Christmas song? That chipmunk song, damn thing is stuck inside my brain somewhere and I can't find the mute button!

4. How many colors are you wearing now? Blue Ceil scrubs with Christmas red socks and the Lover Boys are on bottom( they are purple suede clogs- God I love them!!!!

5. Are you an introvert or extrovert? I'm an extrovert, oh wait maybe I'm an introvert???

6. What was the last book you read? One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish!

7. What's one piece of fiction that changed your life? WTF!!

8. If you are attracted to someone who is already in a relationship (or married), what might do you do? Absolutely nothing!!!!!

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy recently? Yes, the freaking holidays make me every unhappy...gosh I can't believe I wrote it, but it has especially since The Other Half is working both the Eve and Christmas Night shift for 14 hours, not to mention the commute--so make it 16 hours both days!!!

10. What's your favorite dessert? Cheesecake

11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? Well, I'm a night girl- 12 hour night girl, so that takes me about 30 minutes from shower to door, make-up and all

12. Name one website that you visit daily. Can't spell DVM.

Why do you read it? I realize she deals with crazy animals and there owners too, makes my job somedays look a heck of a lot better.

13. What was your last job before either you are at home or at another job? I 'm a little confused on this one!

14. Do you like to clean? Yes, I do, take that BUD! I like for the carpet to be vacuumed with the lines all going the same way....It's call OCD.

15. What was the last song to get stuck in your head? He's a cat flushing a toilet!!!!! HELP!!!

16. What's the last movie you saw? Fred Clause on my iPod, I watched it a work a week or so ago, when we had no patients in.

17. Pirates or Ninjas? Neither

18. What is your least favorite thing to do that you have to do everyday? Wake up, seriously, my internal clock is freaking out of whack, I've mostly worked 12 hour night-shifts fullt-ime 3 to 4 days a week for the past 15 YEARS!

19. Best time of your life? I really enjoy 1994- being out on my own, partying like on tomorrow, coming and going as I pleased, not having a answer to anyone but myself. Also, I loved the birth of each of everyone of the kids, except the c-section part!

20. What are you most looking forward to in the coming year? Okay don't laugh, but I'll be trilled when #4 is finally ready to potty train, then I'll just be changing other peoples kids diapers at work and not have to do it at all day and night. You have NO idea, how many diapers I have changed over the years, Good Lord!

I should of known better

We were quite slow for a week or two at work....guess know one was making babies this past year in February, but whatever....so I decided to bring in the Christmas cards I have left to address and mail etc....and what do you know...a full freaking boat of patients! Good Lord, it never fails.....I should of known better............

sunday stealing

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger called Mary Poppins at the blog It’s Not All Mary Poppins. A bit of trivia: She is the first person we ripped off who also won The Rising Blogger award while we were still at that blog's helm. She states that she lifted the meme from Creative Gene. It was probably stolen by the author of that blog, as well. But that is as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing! Cheers to all us thieves! Sunday Stealing: The Christmas Meme

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial, unfortunately, we have too many allergies, but I would love to have a real tree again one year! Along with a nebulizer and some albuterol!!

3. When do you put up the tree? Whenever I have time

4. When do you take the tree down? Same as the above, one year we had the tree up into February.

5. Do you like eggnog? Yuck!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? My Spirograph, my #1 got a Spirograph a year or two ago and I still play with it! My best present was #1 coming home from the hospital after he was born, the week before Christmas, he was a 29 week preemie, so after 6 weeks in the NICU that was the best present ever!

7. Hardest person to buy for? My Mom

8. Easiest person to buy for? The Other Half

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Of course

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Snail Mail

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A laminating machine---I kid you not! Thanks, and if anyone would like to give this as a present, I'm willing to recycle it!

12. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Anything that I am not cooking

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? A few weeks before

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Absolutely

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate Chip Cookies

16. Lights on the tree? Is this a serious question???

17. Favorite Christmas song? Have yourself a Merry little Christmas

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home hopefully

19. Angel on the tree top or a star? None of the above

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One on the Eve --the rest on Christmas

Better than Match.com!

If asking the patient her twenty millionth question on admission,...

Oh and Thank God is was not in Labor YET....like her due date, number of prenatal visits, testing done during her pregnancy, pain level, acceptable pain level, receptive to learning, infant car seat, birthing plan, assistance at home, etc...

She declared that we spent more time with her asking these questions and many more that she had never thought possible than the questionnaire she completed on match.com......gotta love hearing that.........................................

sunday stealing

Back to Sunday Stealing, again.

Enjoy!

1. When you buy a greetings card are the words or the picture more important to you? The Words, but hopefully the picture has some meaning behind it too!

2. Do you ever make gifts for people, if so what, or do you buy them? The kids and I make some sort of Christmas tree decorations, this is the second year...they have turned out very cute. If ya like one email me!

3. Are you going on holiday this year? If so, where? Yes, I would like to get away from here, but unfortunately the kids and the other half would want to go with me too, so NO!

4. What was the best party you've ever been to? I would say my Wedding , if you could can that a party!

5. If you are married, describe your wedding. If not, what would your ideal wedding be like? We had 300 close friends and family and 10 people who were not invited showed up...but that is another Meme!

6. What's the most romantic thing that's ever been said to you? I have no idea! If you were a boogie, I'd pick you first!

7. What's your favorite romantic song? Iris and Ever long, maybe it's the words not the music, of course

8. Favorite heartbreak song? Not sure

9. Which celebrity would you like a dream date with? Sean Connery

10. Which female celebrity do you find beautiful?

11. Which male celebrity do you think is attractive? Dylan Mc Dermott

12. Describe the kind of underwear you normally wear. Low rise boy briefs, they are really comfy

13. If you could be in a television sit-com, which would you choose? I like House---yes it's not too funny, but I'm in the medical field and HOUSE tells it like it is....my kind of man.

14. Which character would you like to be? HOUSE

15. What are your favorite boy and girl names? Sorry I can't play favorites, I like #1's, #2's, #3's and #4's names the best! Oh yes, and the name Liam and no, none of the kids are named Liam!

16. What's your supermarket of choice? Acme

17. What is your best character trait? My sense of humor

18. What is your worst habit? Procrastination

19. Elaborate on your default icon. What??

20. What is your current relationship status? I happily sleeping alone more than 99% of the time due to work schedules!

21. Ever have a near death experience? Unfortunately, yes....it was so horrible that some of the new doctors that I work with have heard what happened to me...kind of scary...my last pregnancy and the medical condition I had was presented at some national conference....

22. Name an obvious quality about you? I'm exhausted

23. What’s the name of a song stuck in your head right now? Heart Breaker-thanks!

24. Name a celebrity you would marry. None of them, they are all a bunch of Stacked Actors!

25. Do you like pain? Only with sedation!

something to say!

Hello All!

I do not have anything new to post. In the famous words of Kevin Arnold's' father from The Wonder Years, "Work is Work". And quite honestly it's been horribly.....boring, and I dare not say the OTHER word for I return to the Hell Hole tomorrow night for 12 hours of sheer and complete boredom, yet again.

One thing I can NOT stand is to be...not challenged....and recently I have not been challenged, other than keeping my right hand from holding down my left hand, so therefore I do not poke myself in the eye with a pencil point or too!!

Hope all is well with everyone else!

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing.
Sumday Stealing: The Seven Layer Meme

LAYER 1
1: Tell us your name: Purple Stinky Onion
2. Birthplace: In a hospital
3. Where I currently am: At Home
4. Eye Color: Green
5. Height: 5 feet 4 plus inches, w/o heels
6. Hair color: Well right now is is brown with caramel highlights
7. Righty/Lefty: Mostly a righty
8. Zodiac sign:Aries

LAYER 2:
What's... Your heritage: Irish
The shoes you wore today: I wore my LOVER Boys- purple swede Clogs by Sven
Your weakness: Procrastination
Your fears: That something will happen to my family
Your perfect pizza: I do not care for Pizza!
Goals you’d like to achieve: Finish my Graduate degree, go back to school, learn to play the piano VERY well
Your first waking thoughts: Holy F^%&!! I'm going to be late!!!!, oohhh wait---- is that am or pm( this is the curse of working night-shift)
Your best physical feature: My eyes
Your most missed memory: I can not remember:)

LAYER 3:
Do you smoke....only under Extremely Stress
Cuss: Hello!!
Sing: All the time
Do you think you’ve been in love:Yes
Did you go to college: Yes, I took up time and space and ended up with a degree in nursing, go figure:)
Liked high school: It was O-Kay
Want to get/stay married: I think I'll stay married
Believe in yourself: Sometimes
Think you’re attractive: most of the time
Think you’re a health freak: No
Get along with your parent(s): yes
Like thunderstorms: Yes
Play an instrument: Well, this one time in band camp......

LAYER 4:
In the past month have you…
Drank alcohol: yes
Smoked: no
Done a drug: yup, alot of cough and cold formulas, gosh darn kids sniffling and sneezing
Made out: yup
Gone on a date: flew to California for 4 days and saw the Foo Fighters, ZZ Top and The Tubes for the Love Rider 2008!!
Gone to the mall: NO
Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No, who the heck can eat an entire box to themselves?
Eaten sushi: Never
Been on stage: yes
Been dumped: yes
Gone skating: yes
Gone skinny dipping: yes
Stolen Anything: Are you missing anything?

LAYER 5:
Have you ever…
Played a game that required removal of clothing: yes
Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: sure
Been caught “doing something”: yes, and It was horribly embarrassing--my father caught me
Been called a tease: NO
Gotten beaten up: yup the kids do this on a daily basis
Shoplifted: see my answer above...

LAYER 6:
Age you did get/hope to be married: 25
Numbers and names of children (either you have or want): 4 kids- called #1, #2, #3 and #4.
Describe your dream mate:tall, dark rich and handsome
How do you want to die: I want to live forever? I have know idea, but after working in nursing for over 15 years I can tell you how I would not like to die!!!!
What did you want to be when you grow up: Either a VET or a Nurse, I think I picked the wrong field
What country would you most like to visit: I would like to visit my own country- take a month off and cross-country travel.

LAYER 7:
Now tell...
Name a drug you’ve taken illegally: I'm pleading the fifth
Name a person you could trust with my life:Lisa
Name a favorite CD that you own: Pink Floyd's, Dark Side of the Moon
Number of piercings:4
Number of tattoos: none yet, but hopefully for my birthday in 2 years
Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: I'm not sure?
Name a past experience that you regret: Sorry but it is too painful to type about:)

A Friday Fill-In

A Friday Fill-In....because I can't think of anything else to say right now........

1. My stomach is ssooo empty right now....I need to find the left-overs in the frig.

2. Nothing is what I ate the most of on Thursday.

3. The yard needs to be decorated for Christmas

4. The mountains are where I'd rather be at any given time.

5. The smell poop reminds me that someone will probably need there diaper changed, #4, of course

6. A good days sleep is what I need right now!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to going back to work tomorrow, tomorrow my plans include getting in a good nap in before returning back to work and praying that #3 and #4 will be willing to take a nap too! And Sunday, I hope to get home from work at a half decent time and sleep most of the day before I have to go to work again:)))

Boy, My weekend is going to suck! I think I feel a Mental Health day coming on Soon!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving Everyone! So, sorry for the delay...and no....... it was not due to the fact I was making dinner for the family or anything...I slept most of yesterday, I had to work night-shift, yup some poor idiot has too, right?!

I am Thankful for MY family!

I am Thankful no one came into the hospital in Labor during the night!

I am Thankful for working with a great team last night!

And I hope when I have enough energy to get my butt out of this chair, I will enjoy a left-over Thanksgiving meal made by my sister-in-law....

sunday stealing

Okay-I'm addicted..... so I'm stealing again....
ENJOY!

Today we ripped this meme off a blogger called Alissa Anderson at Life's Little Adventures. She explains that she was tagged for this meme from Holly’s blog. But, it was probably stolen at that blog as well. But that is as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!
Cheers to all us thieves! Sunday Stealing: The Favorite MemeFill in your favorite for each of the following:

1. Political show: Jon Stewart?

2. Picnic food: Turkey and Cheese Sandwich

3. Mixed drink: Southern and Orange Juice

4. U.S. President: Bill Clinton

5. Kind of student to teach: one that isn't dumb!

6. Hobby you do or wish you still did: Ice Skating

7. Sports commentator: John Madden---on MUTE of course

8. Sport to watch on TV: Football

9. Animal to have as a pet: A dog:) I miss my dog-Jameson, so much!
but Guinness was a good dog and Jack Daniels too, see the alcohol connection!! I'm going to take a vote on the next dogs name soon!

10. Halloween costume you have worn: I was a very cool frog when I was about 9.

11. Kind of dessert: ultimate chocolate chip cake

12. Comic strip: The Peanuts were the best

13. Ice cream flavor: Chocolate

14. News source: MSNBC/KYW

15. Vacation spot: The mountains

16. Wine: I'll pass

17. Way to waste time instead of working: Blogging

18. Reality show: The Biggest Loser/ I like the before and after

19. Childrens movie: Nemo/Monsters Inc.

20. Celebrity you wish would retire: Paris Hilton/Brittney

what do you get--nothing!

What do you get from working at the number # 1 Hospital in the United States?

Nothing but a freaking headache, that is all! Seriously, a gosh darn headache. Who rates these hospitals, are you kidding me, we have been number #1 for the past ___ years by some BIG name magazine. Because I know, you did not ask the employess what we thought!

Don't fail me now!

I was at a soccer game tonight----I hate going to soccer games when it's SNOWING outside!!!!

But anyway, this crazy soccer mom comes running over to me -dragging her husband,"who, by the way could not care less".

Her-Hey, remember me, ooppps I means us,...don't you remember,.....you delivered me a few years ago...oohhh come on..... how could you forget?!!!!! I delivered at______hospital, Dr.______ just left the room and like two minutes later Johnny(or something like that name) was coming.....don't you remember??!!!!

Me- Ooohhhh, yes, NOW I remember....Geez, how could I forget!!! That's right Dr._______just left the room and you delivered about 2 contractions later, sure,.... I delivered little Johnny. So, where is he---looking around for a stroller or something.

Her-he's sitting over there bundled up.

Me- God, he looks big. How old is he now? I'm thinking to myself, maybe 2-3, but I'm sure it's all the jackets etc...because---it could not have been that long ago.....could it????

Her- Oh, he just turned 7.

Me-WOW, 7....boy, that is hard to believe (me really thinking, WTF? where has the time gone)!!

We ended on small talk. She thanked me for a great delivery and was kidding about how Dr._____came running back into the room after the page and how I was standing there trying to clamp the cord off etc.....

In all honesty....I really did not remember the delivery...I have only caught a few babies over the years and most of the deliveries I ever do remember are the sad/serious ones, maybe a funny one or two....but most I do not....now, if she had some crazy-ass tattoo down there I may have remembered her and the delivery, but obvisously she did not. He is a very cute little man these days, I must say.

I think I'm going to need to do some memory skill games!

The Other Half

Yes, The Other Half is o-kay Thank God!


Posted: Thursday, 20 November 2008 10:04PM

Injured Firefighters Are Recovering
by KYW's Hadas Kuznits

One firefighter has been released from the hospital and another is recovering from surgery, after falling through a roof at a fire they were battling Wednesday night.
The fire happened at an auto repair garage near Hegeman and Wingate Streets. Executive Fire Chief Daniel Williams says a cause has now been determined:
"The fire marshal has determined the cause of the fire to be electrical appliance, that is a battery pack, that was being misused."
He says the portion of the business that caught fire was one of the garages at the business. Nevertheless, the entire business has been temporarily shut down:
"The business was issued a cease operations order, and that's for everybody's safety. There were so many violations that the place would have to be corrected, all the violations would have to be corrected before they're allowed to open that business again."
One of the injured firefighters underwent surgery, the other was released from the hospital. Both are expected to recover.

What I should of been.

When I was little there were only two things, I ever thought of being when I got older. One was a Registered Nurse, the other was a Veterinarian. I definitely picked the wrong one! Animals are so much cooler than most of the people and or families members I take care of.