Tuesday Have you Noticed?

Somehow, I should have realized, but I didn't. I was sitting here and thinking of what should I write about today......Then I checked the Blogs of Note, on the bottom of the Dashboard.

I went to one, and then traveled onto the Next Blog. Somehow, or maybe it is magic, when you get to the content of one all the rest are of the same genre, or does genre only apply to movies?

I have perused many book reading and evaluations, blogs on fashion, or so they call it in some instances. And then there are blogs that are just plain weird. How do people think this stuff up, really, how do they.

The ones I some how I got on their trail, were blogs started when the children were born and their lives. There are really a lot of those, I suppose I am jealous of them. When the daughter was born there were no blogs. I guess I would have had tendinitis in right index finger from taking so many pictures myself. I took a roll a month, but sometimes the flash on the camera would work and sometimes it would not. I did not have the money at that time just to out and buy a new one.

Maybe I could scan the ones I have, adjust them in Photoshop and then make a belated blog........I will have to think on that.

CAN NOT BELIEVE IT

My last patient of the day was cancelled. This woman (age 28) came to the hospital, for elective surgery, and had a full blown case of the flu...

What was she thinking, that no one would notice???? She was coughing and hacking, febrile with major body aches and pains.

Are people really that stupid not to realize that she would not be done for an elective procedure with the flu, and how many people did she contaminate with that stunt?

Is this a part of the rampant "its all about me" I asked the daughter, what would she do......"not go." she had the common sense before she went to Nursing School....

There is nothing more dangerous that masses of stupidity.

QUOTES OF THE DAY

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against
somebody rather than for somebody."
 - Franklin P. Adams

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government
fears the people, there is liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson

SUNDAY AGAIN

I realized that I had not written in my blog for a week. There is nothing going on except work, work, work, Emily is on a break from Friday till after Thanksgiving, but she has a test on Tuesday.

On Thursday she said she had a sore throat and by Friday morning she has a cold. No muscle, whole body aches. So it is not the flu. She had a regualr flu shot, but the Nursing Students have not yet been offered the H1N1 shots. One would think that people in health care would have been offered them. They are allowed only 2 sick days but the school told them if they got the flu they would be OK with their make up time.

The ICUs in our area are filling up with H1N1, and a few have died. What they list their deaths as is pneumonia, which is essentially the truth, they just leave the H1N1 out of the picture. I imagine there are a lot more deaths than they want to mention . I suppose they don't want to panic the public. It is sad that in this day and age the flu is stronger than modern medicine. But, most of those who died did have some underlying medical condition. It is sort of scary.

People at work were hoping to get off on Wednesday but the schedule is filling up fast, I have yet to figure out who would want to have major surgery and be in the hospital over a Holiday?? Guess they have no friends or life, or perhaps, they want to mess up their families Holiday too. That would not surprise me one bit.

I am not cooking at all this year (for a Holiday) On Thurday we will go to my brothers and on Christmas to my sisters. I heard on the radio yesterday that the Pumpkin crop was ruined and they will not be packing any more for this year. So, even thought I am not cooking, I bought a few cans. Who knows my assignment may be pumpkin pies for Christmas.

In our family the host cooks the turkey and stuffing, and the rest of the sibs cook the dessert and side dishes. It works out well, because everyone wants what they had the year before.....You always know what is cooking.

I am hoping to try to post more often. I will see how that goes.

SUNDAY WATCHING EMILY

Emily said she would organize my pantry. It is a job that needed to be done, and I wasn't up to doing it my self. She said she likes the "thought" or organizing, I will not post a picture of her room.

She has spent the past hour taking things out and placing them on the floor. "We will never have to buy mustard again!!!!!"..........."We have the biggest collection of Asian food, outside of an Asian house!!!!!!........ "There are two bottles of Maple Syrup"........

My problem is that I buy things I think I might need, really I make a list and the repopulate it and somehow (????) it gets pushed to the back of the pantry. She said she is going to make me labels and I am to check the closet before another purchase......Sounds good in theory to me. Oh, I see things going back in......she told me next is my spice collection. I have to admit I have about four containers of cinnamon in there.

When she graduates in June (singing Old To Joy) I can stock her pantry from mine, this will give me room to restock, or perhaps I shall mend my pack rat ways......

I hope it works.

THE WEEKEND AT LAST

Today I spent my day doing plastics. Two facelifts, to be exact. Each one will take about six hours. The surgeon is OCD and everything has to be balanced and perfect. Which is a good thing when you are have a cosmetic procedure.

Cosmetic surgery is all self pay, unless there was some accident or disease process that made a defect. So, for six hours I sat and recorded the vital signs, give medications and essentially keep the person alive and out of harms way. If the B/P or pulse drops I have medication to give. I also am on alert for the unexpected. Most of the time it does not happen but you have to be vigilant and ready to treat anything that will happen.

When a person has surgery that will last a long time we have to keep them warm. So, I will use a fluid warmer and a warming blanket. When they get cold, their blood vessels constrict and there is a decrease of blood flow to the newly operative site. That will not be a good thing.

After a face lift, the entire face is swollen and unrecognizable. I guess it takes about six weeks for everything to look good, although the swelling can persist longer. I wish he had a book of how they look when they are finished.

The hospital system associated with her Nursing School came to try to convince the student to come and work. She likes the OR and ER best. But it is the eternal dilemma, THEY WILL NOT HIRE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE. Now where in the hell do you get the experience. I told her that is why most of the RNs in the OR are in their fifties.

That is such a crock of ..............

VETERANS DAY

 

 

 

In honor of Veterans Day I would like to add this picture of the cute guy who caught my eye forty one years ago.

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN.....

The conference is over and yesterday I started home. I do not like to drive in the dark on unfamiliar roads. I especially worry about four legged woodland creatures jumping out on the road.

I left Williamsburg about 12:30 and then drove to Winchester and stayed overnight. I so did want just to keep driving, but I knew that I only had about one hour of daylight left. I watched a bit of mindless TV and then went to sleep.

This morning I awoke at 4 AM, and could not fall asleep again. This time I again watched mindless TV and decided the world has gone crazy.

I departed at 07:30 and it was really cold out there. I have this little icons on my dashboard of a cut away of a tire with an exclamation mark inside of it. This is a indicator that the tire pressure on one of the tires is low. I stopped at Sheetz and checked all four tires, one took larger volume of air than the rest, filled up the tank and was off. The sensor seems to be in the air filling stem and will reset itself after a few minutes. The first time I had to fill up the tires I had expected immediate gratification, but it takes a few minutes to reset. That is a good invention, at least for me.

I was driving thru the mountains of Western Maryland and for a moment could not figure out what was on the grass and trees, DUH in the same second it dawned on me that it was a dusting of snow..... It was a pretty drive thru those mountains. Driving the PA Turnpike is something I do not like to do. So I decided to drive I 68 which runs parallel to the Turnpike. The traffic was light and three lanes where the direction was uphill.

I got off at US 219 and drove North thru Meyersdale and caught the Turnpike at Somerset. I had not been in that direction for about 25 years, and much to my surprise there was a bypass around Meyersdale. This is a town of about 2,800 people, now, why in the world would milions be spent for that by pass? I could imagine if they had made the whole US 219 a four lane, limited access highway but it was only a few miles..... Just another example of the squandering of our tax dollars again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyersdale,_Pennsylvania

MADE IT TO VIRGINIA

I made it to Virginia in eight hours. That is the usual amount of time it takes to drive here, from Pittsburgh that is. The drive was sunny and when I got to Winchester I could see dark clouds to the east, and that was the direction that I was headed. In Fredericksburg it started to rain and was raining all the while I was on I 95.

I do not know how any one else feels about the US Interstate system, but I think I 95 ranks up there being about the WORST to drive. It is three lanes, 75 MPH and bumper to bumper. I feel like I am in a demolition derby all the time.

Then I 64 is very busy too but it is mostly two lanes. Whoa, what did I forget...the damned PA Turnpike which is the absolute worst maintained road in the Interstate System.....and there is no wiggle room what so ever on I76.

I have two days of classes done and two to go. I spent my afternoons doing a little shopping and walking around Williamsburg. Today was nice and sunny so I took a few pictures. Tomorrow I will go to class and then out to dinner with my brother and his family. I think Mexican is on the menu.

I realized this afternoon that there are just so many pictures to be taken of Williamsburg, they really all look alike. With the possible exception of ones with snow.