SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2003
- Posts
- 15,378
So we get up at our usual hour of 0500 this morning to go to work. It's Monday and we're kind of dragging after pulling 12 hour shifts both Saturday and Sunday. We suck down some coffee and hit the shower to get ready for the day. We get dressed and we're all set to head in when the phone rings. It's work telling us we don't have to be in at 0700 as usual. Instead they want us in at 0900.
What to do? Do we got back to bed for another hour or what. While this was tempting we looked at each other and grabbed our riding gear. We haven't been riding anywhere as much as we want to be so this is a good chance to hit the road when it's still cool.
150 miles later we pull into work. (We took the long way in.) We're both smiling and relaxed after a great ride. Stashing the helmets and grabbing our coolers we headed in and got ready for the days work.
On my unit I find 10 student scurrying around and am informed of my assignment. For a change I've got an easy one, I'm to help the intake Nurse getting the new patients settled.
The third patient to come through my caring hands is in for a Necrosis Excision of a Facial Wound. We get him settled in the room and I can see where the wound is, he has a large dressing on his cheek. When we remove the dressing to check out the wound even I'm a bit taken aback. This is a wound that is truly horrific in nature as it takes up most of his cheek from just below his eye to just above his lips. It extends from his nose to the edge of the mouth and is more than quite deep.
Well this is a pateint and he needs caring for so we take care of him. His M.D. is informed that he is his room and ready. We get our orders and get him prepped. Much to my surprise the M.D. will be doing the work in the room.
Meanwhile the word has gone out that the M.D. will be doing an interesting procedure and permission was received to allow the students to watch.
I am asked to hold the patients head and otherwise assist the M.D. as he does his work. The M.D. gets set up and smiles at me as the students file into the room. (The patient was thankfully zonked by this time.)
When the M.D. had me remove the dressing you could hear gasps from the students. By the time he started working on the wound I was so focused on what he was doing that I was ignoring the students. Faintly though I could hear shuffling noises interspersed with gasps.
When he had ended the procedure I finally looked up and was surprised to find only three students in the room. All three were flat on their backs and being quietly dragged out of the room by the staff. When I looked at the M.D. he shrugged and we started to laugh.
Naturaly a day this good does have to have some bad in it. Karma does balance out after all. I had gone into the kitchen later in the day to get lunch. The Supervisor was in there and reached past me to get her lunch out of the freezer. When she opened to the door to the freezer her lunch slid out and landed on my right foot with pinpoint accuracy. Right on the Bone Spur on the outside of my foot. (By the end of my third day in work this spur is quite tender.) Talk about painful. I almost dropped my lunch.
When my supervisor asked me why it had hurt so much I explained about the spur. She flinched in response.
Ahh well things must balance out I suppose.
The day made up for it with a beautiful ride home. Almost no traffic and while it was hotter than Hades we didn't have to stop for a single light.
Cat
What to do? Do we got back to bed for another hour or what. While this was tempting we looked at each other and grabbed our riding gear. We haven't been riding anywhere as much as we want to be so this is a good chance to hit the road when it's still cool.
150 miles later we pull into work. (We took the long way in.) We're both smiling and relaxed after a great ride. Stashing the helmets and grabbing our coolers we headed in and got ready for the days work.
On my unit I find 10 student scurrying around and am informed of my assignment. For a change I've got an easy one, I'm to help the intake Nurse getting the new patients settled.
The third patient to come through my caring hands is in for a Necrosis Excision of a Facial Wound. We get him settled in the room and I can see where the wound is, he has a large dressing on his cheek. When we remove the dressing to check out the wound even I'm a bit taken aback. This is a wound that is truly horrific in nature as it takes up most of his cheek from just below his eye to just above his lips. It extends from his nose to the edge of the mouth and is more than quite deep.
Well this is a pateint and he needs caring for so we take care of him. His M.D. is informed that he is his room and ready. We get our orders and get him prepped. Much to my surprise the M.D. will be doing the work in the room.
Meanwhile the word has gone out that the M.D. will be doing an interesting procedure and permission was received to allow the students to watch.
I am asked to hold the patients head and otherwise assist the M.D. as he does his work. The M.D. gets set up and smiles at me as the students file into the room. (The patient was thankfully zonked by this time.)
When the M.D. had me remove the dressing you could hear gasps from the students. By the time he started working on the wound I was so focused on what he was doing that I was ignoring the students. Faintly though I could hear shuffling noises interspersed with gasps.
When he had ended the procedure I finally looked up and was surprised to find only three students in the room. All three were flat on their backs and being quietly dragged out of the room by the staff. When I looked at the M.D. he shrugged and we started to laugh.
Naturaly a day this good does have to have some bad in it. Karma does balance out after all. I had gone into the kitchen later in the day to get lunch. The Supervisor was in there and reached past me to get her lunch out of the freezer. When she opened to the door to the freezer her lunch slid out and landed on my right foot with pinpoint accuracy. Right on the Bone Spur on the outside of my foot. (By the end of my third day in work this spur is quite tender.) Talk about painful. I almost dropped my lunch.
When my supervisor asked me why it had hurt so much I explained about the spur. She flinched in response.
Ahh well things must balance out I suppose.
The day made up for it with a beautiful ride home. Almost no traffic and while it was hotter than Hades we didn't have to stop for a single light.
Cat
