Flavor of the Day: Aysén Glacier Trail, in Patagonia, in Chile. Tell me this isn't the greatest thing ever.
http://www.adventurepatagonia.com/index.php
Flavor of the Year: The Wave, in Utah. See my header picture. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004461782_trutahrock080.html
Favorite thing from ER Clinicals: John Doe, the giant, 14 inch head laceration (with 10cm flap) that took 14 staples, 6 stitches and absolutely no anesthesia to close. This happened to a drunk teenager, who's only comment regarding his unfortunate situation was "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fucktard, fuck fuck fuck fuck you." (see above photo from the ER doctor's report on his case, LOL). I got to touch his skull while helping to clean the golf ball sized clots of blood out of his scalp, hold him down while the doc stapled him back together (he found this to be extremely unpleasant- he cried and begged for mercy), assisted in catheterizing him, and then spent an hour and a half trying to clean all of his blood off of him, the bed, and the room (the spots of it on the ceiling are probably still there).
The best part was, the kid in the room next to him had come in about 20 minutes prior to John Doe's arrival, also for a head wound that needed stapling- (but this kids was very small, maybe an inch and half). This kid was already pretty upset at the prospect of being stapled ("is it like the Swingline ones my Mom uses...?!") and after listening to John Doe's screams of pain and fear while being stapled, the look on this kid's face was priceless when the doctor came in to fix him up. He looked like he was going to piss himself.
I really want to go skiing. Anywhere, now.
I really think I want to work in the ER. I love it love it love it.
I really wish I could sleep.
The other picture was another great chief complaint (the reason, according to the patient, of WHY they decided they needed to go to the emergency room). According to one, grossly obese 60 year old lady, "I keep having these rabbit turds." She got a rectal exam for her trouble.
I'm in serious Iphone withdrawl. Texting, taking pictures, and driving to places new & unknown without the GPS and map tool... well, life just isn't the same. Goddamit, they need to make the Ipod touch have a freaking camera and a better battery life, and I would be first in line.
I'm dreaming of Redwood National Park, Colma, La Jolla, the Pacific Ocean, and places yet unknown.
1 comment:
I have the Touch. Your suggestions wouldn't give it that GPS feature. But I do like the ability to mess around on the internet on it. It came in handy this summer at a Hot Spot in Curacao. And the battery lasted more than I needed.
Frankly, I don't want a complicated phone. I like my camera phone, it comes in handy, but I wouldn't listen to mp3, internet searching is too tedious, etc. And if I broke it, way too expensive to replace.
Glad you're having fun on your clinicals! I wouldn't want to work the ER because the patients are still there, you still have to deal with them. I'd much rather work the bus, drive real fast to a scene, scoop them up, drive real fast again, and then drop them off. But that's just me.
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