Man, I'm exhausted. Worked a long weekend stretch and I still want to sleep. Isn't this Tuesday already? Hmmm...
The best part of the weekend is the thing I hope I never get over and that is how wonderful it is to work with my friends. While Brian was floated north and we missed him, Chris suped, Jones team led MICU and I was assigned to MICU. The only problem we had was when Jones kept adding "Q1 Footrubs for the TL" to my load, which I, of course, changed to "Q1 Kiss Glenna's Ass"
All in all it was a fun but tiring weekend. I don't have any great stories, particularly. It was pretty much run of the mill stuff from ER coming up to add to the chronic...everything...we already had. I did meet/have one new patient that I hadn't met before and he definitely tugged at my heart strings. The same age as one my uncles, this man also did 20 years in the Navy, like Andy, with multiple tours in Vietnam along with running the San Diego/Honolulu/Tokyo loop for the rest of his career. Also like Andy he has mesothelioma from the asbestos in the ship hulls. And then on top of it, this man is a paraplegic from MS, had a small bowel obstruction, and completely whited out lung which made for lots of IPV and NT suctioning. Through it all he cracked jokes like "Well I guess I have to take this suctioning since I can't run away from you" "I'll still be here when you get back" "Don't blame me. I'm pretty sure I didn't do it."
He is a far stronger soul that I think I will ever be.
Man, I'm exhausted. Worked a long weekend stretch and I still want to sleep. Isn't this Tuesday already? Hmmm...
The best part of the weekend is the thing I hope I never get over and that is how wonderful it is to work with my friends. While Brian was floated north and we missed him, Chris suped, Jones team led MICU and I was assigned to MICU. The only problem we had was when Jones kept adding "Q1 Footrubs for the TL" to my load, which I, of course, changed to "Q1 Kiss Glenna's Ass"
All in all it was a fun but tiring weekend. I don't have any great stories, particularly. It was pretty much run of the mill stuff from ER coming up to add to the chronic...everything...we already had. I did meet/have one new patient that I hadn't met before and he definitely tugged at my heart strings. The same age as one my uncles, this man also did 20 years in the Navy, like Andy, with multiple tours in Vietnam along with running the San Diego/Honolulu/Tokyo loop for the rest of his career. Also like Andy he has mesothelioma from the asbestos in the ship hulls. And then on top of it, this man is a paraplegic from MS, had a small bowel obstruction, and completely whited out lung which made for lots of IPV and NT suctioning. Through it all he cracked jokes like "Well I guess I have to take this suctioning since I can't run away from you" "I'll still be here when you get back" "Don't blame me. I'm pretty sure I didn't do it."
He is a far stronger soul that I think I will ever be.