Wednesday, April 30, 2008

nothing much....

Hmm.... the last couple days. I cut my hair. A whole lot. At least 6 inches are now off of it. My mom saw it and said, 'It looks... interesting... I mean.. o kay.. ' Great. My hair looks interesting. Then she offered to pay for me to go in and get it evened out. Hells no mom. I cut my own hair to save the 30 dollars it would cost to fix it. It's good I thought I did an o-k job. I guess I couldnt' really see the back... and I just cut approximately the same length around my head... and I added a few 'layers'.. aka mistakes. There are a lot of layers. When I went to work today though a girl I work with was all, ' I really like your haircut!' REALLY!!?? I did it myself. So, you know, if you see some pieces that don't look quite right just get a scissors and cut them off, or give me a little fyi. Cutting hair is kind of fun. I originally just planned on giving myself a trim, which was almost complete until I made a ginormous mistake. Then I had to cut much more off. I can still however, get it into a ponytail. It's just a little nubbin, but my one hairstyle is complete. All I have to do is wake-up, and instead of spending that extra 5 seconds gathering my hair into a ponytail, I can quick slick it up into a nubbin. Then spend 7 seconds picking out which pair of scrubs.. which are all the same... to wear. Pretty good morning routine.
This blog is pointless.
Oh yeah, I got some piano books I ordered off amazon.com today. Cool..... right. okay bye!

Monday, April 28, 2008

zoolander

Ever since I stepped on my zoolander dvd and broke it I've really been missing it. Even when I look at every day things I am reminded of random quotes from the movie. Like I was eating some cereal for breakfast a couple hours ago and the spoon was just lying there and I thought of:

'How did you know you wanted to be a male model?'
'Well, I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking "wow, you're ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career."
-a career?
-'yeah, be professionally good looking.

or

Derek, are you worried about hansel?
-Not as much as I'm worried about Grettel.

or

'A male models life is a precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs, and stunning features, doesn't mean that we too, can't not die, in a freak, gasoline fight accident. '

or

'Do you understand that the world does not revolve around you and your do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long so you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose ..or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way? '


Gosh. Love it.

I don't love however, all of the advertisements that pop onto my screen or are on my email. Like hoodia weight loss plan pills. Hoodia probably isn't a plant. It's probably a made up substance. I remember I read about it on this one website because I wanted to see if it was just ground up meth, and or crack. Their description was something like this, (except a whole lot better ...)

"Hoodia is from this one cactus we found and ground up. Tribesman used to use it to stave off hunger on long hunting trips. It's been used by the antiquagoodle.. tribe.. for several centuries, and is ridiculously effective. Now you can try it free for 6 weeks... except this one dollar payment. So it's only a dollar for 6 weeks. Yeah. "

I could make my own weight loss substance. I could go scoop up some ORange fuzz algae by the river, a couple chipmunks, and maybe some herbs, smash it up and bake it. Then put it in a dehydrating machine until it gets real dry, then crush it up some more and pour it into some caplets and be all, ' This is the rare algae which only grows on the remants of the nearly extinct bobble headed gopher. The bobble headed gopher only eats fish from chemical plants, which are filled with weight loss substances like ... chromium .. and Goolia. ( a similar substance to hoodia, but 100x stronger in weight loss effects.) AFter the gopher dies, the chromium and goolia, (which are released through the gopher's hair follicles and skin cells,) are exactly what the Orange Fuzz algae diet consists of. The Orange algae feeds on the chromium and goolia, and turns these substances into what we like to call, lorthub. What we do, is take the orange fuzz algae, and chemically treat it to extract it and amplify the lorthub, which we call, thuborrhea.
What you get, is our 4 week sample of fiborrhea. Thuborrhea speeds up your digestion, up to 7x the normal speed. What does this do to you? A faster metabolism! You can eat whatever you want, whenever you want. We also supply this 4 week sample of depends. If you are unsatisfied with this product, even after the 4 week trial period, just return your packaging for no extra charge.

Obviously, I am in a really weird mood right now. Maybe I'll take the dog for a walk.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

why is it snowing? I'm pissed.

I'm pissed. April this year is a giant wang. It's pretty cool that the weekends I have off, it blizzards.. both times. That's not correct grammar, but I think you get the point. Anywho, I have been looking at other jobs online. I will probably not leave mine until after the summer, but I'm pretty sure the Air-Force won't accept my ICU work at brainerd. They want real ICU experience. So now I'm thinking whether or not I should do the Air Force at all... because after I switch jobs and then work at that ICU for a year... it will be 2 years from now.. then I have a four year commitment if I join the Air Force. I'll have to give this some more thought.
I started looking at jobs online. North Memorial has I think 13 different ICU positions open... as well as ER positions.. and Trauma Team positions. That would be amazing. I just want to be a float nurse between them all. I was also thinking that if I go on to school I could be a wound care nurse. I enjoy pus and oozing disgusting things... and picking skin. That's mostly what wound care nurses do. Amazing. That would be ridiculously awesome. I was also thinking that I could bring some more money typing up dictations. I can type 103 wpm, and I know they have a lot of typists that just work at home. I could do part-time and just work from 8-12 a couple days a week, then go to my regular job. I could probably just go to caribou and type up a bunch of dictations real quick, then go work out and go to work. AMazing. I am a genius. It would be even cooler if I could type up the dictations for ICU and Tele, that way I would know what's going on with my patients before I even got to work. Holllaaaaa.
I'm going to go and see if there are any positions open online . Schweet.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

my manager is a poop hole

My manager keeps switching my schedule... you know.. only 2-3 days in advance. So basically if I don't check my schedule all of the time I will either be at work when I'm not supposed to be, or not be at work when I am supposed to be. (which is much more likely being I am currently working overtime..) She told me she changed my schedule around on wednesday... but I thought she meant the schedule that just came out, not the current one. She definitely meant the current one, And also the next one. Good thing I called staffing that following Friday, because they told me the lovely news that I had to be at work in 4 hours. Which was even more of a hassle because I was in Deer River at the time. Jerk manager. Maybe I should change her 8-4pm mon-thursday schedule around. What a dick.
Work wasn't very fun either. I sat with a one to one on the surgical floor, (2nd floor.) I have no idea when he was a one to one. Apparently he had woken up on nights and was confused. But he's 89 years old, and when you wake up in a dark room in a foreign place and don't know where you are for 5 minutes I would call that normal. I basically sat in his room with him while he slept. I had to give him a bunch of blood, and platelets, and plasma. Then respiratory therapy came in to give him a neb and they sat him up too fast and he projectile vomited all over. Everything. Me. The respiratory therapist, the bed, the equipment, his plasma... etc. you get the point. His projectile vomiting wasn't like a stream, it was like a fountain. It was really annoying because I gave him his blue vomiting bag as soon as he looked like he was going to throw up, and he holds it 10 inches from his face. That'll do a whole lot of good. I guess it did catch about 3 inches of the fountain spray. Then he was really angry the whole time. ' Leave me the hell alone!' Sorry asshole, I'm just trying to change your gown which is full of vomit. Would you rather have me just leave it? My bad. Then every time I hung a new blood product he would get really angry at me. DUde, you were the one that decided to crawl out of your wheel chair.. even though you dont' have legs, and you broke your hip. I'm just making it possible for you to go to surgery and get this fixed. It's cool though, you can yell and swear at me. It's not like he had to even do anything. He just lays there and lets it run through his IV. Apparently that's a ton of work and he's pissed about it. He either was sleeping, or angry. No nice medium.
Saturday however, was a little better. It was a busy crappy shift... I had to transfer a guy to st cloud, discharge a lady, one of my patients started circling the drain so I had to transfer him to ICu, then I got 2 admits. However... Admit boy brought them!!! Weeee! He's amazing. Brown hair smiley face mcgee. It doesn't matter if the patient he's bringing me is insane, because he's amazing. I actually talked to him. I said, Hi!. Then he said, Hi Annie. (he knows my name! WHat??? Hollaaaa) Then I took the patients stuff and while she was walking onto the scale I was all.... 'How's the ER?' and then he said, 'Busy.' WOah. I think that was probably one of our longest conversations yet. Seriously.
Then on Sunday, he brought up another patient. This really cute 90 year old lady. We put her in the bed and as soon as we both left the room she puts her call light on, so we walked back in thinking we would both need to bring her to the bathroom. Then she just says, ' Do you guys hear that beeping noise? What is that?' Ummm.... that's just your call light, you know, the one you turned on. haha. hilarious. I loved her. We explained it to her and she just goes... OOhhh! That was dumb of me.' Then he was gathering the stuff to leave, and I said, 'Thanks for the sweet patient!' He was like, ' No problem, there's more where that came from.'
Amazing. He is amazing. Except Jera this other girl that came on for night shift saw him leaving with the patient's cart to go back down to ER. After he left she said, ' Gosh, my sister met him the other day. She is convinced she is going to marry him.'
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I'll kill her.
Then she continues on.
'He is just such a nice guy.'
I know. pbbbbbbb............. How depressing. There are probably 5,000 other people that like him too.. he could also have a girlfriend for all I know. As soon as I realize I have any competition I usually just give up. Which I planned on doing. (not that I had really tried.... I basically see him when he brings me patients...) Everyone I work with knows that I think he's cute and everyone always talks about it when I'm gone, and how they should 'hook us up.' Shannon, this lady I work with was like, 'LEts call ER and get his number!.' Then she picks up the phone like she's going to dial. It was funny. (She was obviously joking...) Then they all tell me they know all these people they can 'hook me up with.' Sorry guys, they aren't admit boy.
Nothing will ever happen of this, but oh well . At least sometimes I can see someone besides a middle aged woman when I get new patients. That's all for now.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

getting fat

I have decided that I was much skinnier during that time when someone stole my computer. Without my computer, I have no entertainment source. Aka, I have nothing to eat and look at. I don't use the tv, so that's not so much a problem. But what I basically use this computer for is, (get ready for this important info..)

1. facebook every other day.
2. watching movies
3. occassional email check. (very occassional... like once a month.)
4. .. hmm.. that's it. Oh wait no, this blog that I am writing on right now.

So usually before I go to bed I watch a movie or part of a movie. Then what do I do while I watch that movie? Eat a sandwich, or some chocolate, or... who the hell else knows. Whatever I have in my house. Which is usually something random. I don't even necessarily have to be hungry. I don't think I ever am hungry. I guess I really only have one true talent, and that is eating. People always say, ' I could never eat that.' or 'Gosh, I am so full.' I don't think I have ever said these words. Or if I say, Gosh, I am so full, it's after I've already eaten 3,000 calories and am STILL eating. I do however say, ' I should probably stop eating now.' But then I keep eating.
I am also much more tired after working day shift. I am not someone who likes waking up at 5:30 am. When you wake up then, you should go to bed by at least 10, and I am not good at doing that either. Even if I do go to bed at 10pm, I am still ridiculously tired the next day. When I worked evenings I had tons of energy. I went to bed around 1:30 and got up around 9/9:30. Then I would wake up and drink coffee and work out and then come back and do something random for an hour or 2, like go on the internet, or go read at caribou, or clean. Then I worked and came back and went to bed. Now I get home from day shifts and I have no energy to do anything. I just sit on the couch and tell myself to do stuff. I think I am actually more tired after working day shifts than I am working night shifts. More tired= less energy=more laying=more watching movies=more eating=getting fatter. So maybe, if I broke this computer or someone stole it again I could take out a step in that process. Then since I would have nothing to do I would have to go workout, or read, or play piano. All which of are hard to do while you are eating something.
I wish I had a best friend anorexic, and she wanted to hang out ALL of the time. I would be all, 'I'm hungry.!' then she'd be like.. no you're not.. lets drink water! 'Okay ! Good Idea anorexic best friend.' Or, I could eat an apple, then we could split it and each have only 25 calories instead of 50.

I shouldnt' have started talking about food. I would really like a taco right now. Did you know I went to taco bell the other day, and I couldn't find my credit card right away, and the girl was like, ' don't worry about it.. you can just have it.' WHAT!? HAve this burrito1!?!? for FREE!?!?!? She's amazing. I love her. I also love burritos. That was a great day. I also love Ice cream.. although I have never gotten that for free, mostly because it is so good that I will pay for it every time. However, everything is put into proportion when compared to mcdonalds ice cream cones. For example, you could be buying a shirt, and the shirt could cost $24. That's 24 Mcdonald's ice cream cones. Do you really want that shirt? I wouldn't buy it. Especially if I did buy those 24 ice cream cones I probably would not want to see myself in the shirt, unless the shirt was an xxxxL. I basically eat ice cream everyday. There is a frozen yogurt ice cream thingy at work and everyday I make myself a cone. Everyday. It usually rounds out to be about 46 cents. Which I would save over time a bunch of money if I didn't eat ice cream.. or anything else.
That really makes me want to be an anorexic. You would save so much on food. Sweet Jesus.

Well, I am going to go do some drug test for ICU. Should be good. Maybe I'll go eat some food while I'm taking the test. Even better.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

my eyes are burning

I am so tired my eyes are burning. My manager looked at me today and she goes...
' Annie.. you look tired.'

I am tired Kathy.

'I mean, you look really, REally, tired.'

I am really, really tired.

'I think I know what you need.'

what's that?

'Coffee!'

I think I got that covered.

Then there was some pharmacist guy sitting right next to me when she said this all and when she left he looks at me and says, ' you know, when people say you look really tired they are basically saying you look like crap.'
-hmm... yeah. I'm over it.
'well, I don't think you look like crap.'
Thanks. I don't think you look like crap either.

What a great day. What a great compliment. Probably one of the nicer things someone could say.
My patient was boring. His pH was altered so he wasn't really 'with it.' Which is another reason I enjoy ICU. People can't complain or make you get them stuff when they aren't conscious. It's actually pretty fun to talk to unconscious people. You can talk to them about anything, or just tell them random stuff. Like, ' I hope that they have chicken soup for lunch today.' or, 'Hey Fred, will you remind me to get your blood sugar around 11:30? .....? '
JUst KIDDING!! Maybe not that last one, but you get the point.

There was a meeting after work today, I was late, along with a couple other people that had to stay late to help with the transfers we were doing . Anyways, we got there and all of the important info about the vents and the bipaps was all done. ( we were only 15 minutes late..) When we got there, Kathy then stood up to say something to the extent of, : We aren't praying enough at meetings.' So, she read this really long prayer. Then she read this really long story about a guy who lived through a code blue. It was a really annoying story. It went something like this:
'Oh oh , the pain in my chest. Why isn't anybody helping with the pain in my chest!? All of you, stop talking, listen to me, the pain in my chest is unbearable. Don't put that on me, Ouch! Etc.. etc.. etc.. pain in his chest etc,.. etc.. etc.. annoying.
That took about 20 minutes, then she talked about how we should be reminded that when people are in a code situation to mind what we say, and that ' hearing is the last sense to go' when you are dying.
Okay crazy guy that wrote this story, obviously the people that were talking to eachother about what they were going to do to you next knew what they were doing, because you're alive now. So sit down and shut up. Of course your chest hurt. Maybe you should be so obese and smoke all of the time, then maybe you wouldn't have had this massive MI that put you into a code.
Apparently now we are all supposed to be calm and quiet, emphasis on the quiet part.
I was talking to one lady after the meeting and we were imitating what the new Code situations would be like.
'Ahem.... psst..... is everybody clear? Everybody clear? '

'mm hmm.... I'm charging the machine.'

'I'm clear your clear everybody's clear..'
-shocking-

Then there are 4 more people on the floor. Death by electrocution. Genius.
Maybe when the doctor asks them on admission if they want to be a full code he will also ask their favorite song. That way we can have it handy if they start dying and blast it on the stereo. I think if I were dying I'd try to pick a funny song in the background. Like something by the backstreet boys, or Raffi. ' A peanut butter sandwich made with jam, that's the best 'wich' that i've ever had is a peanut butter sandwich made with jam. yum yum yum yum yum!'
Or that one country song by montgomery gentry, 'gone like a freight train gone like yesterday gone like a soldier in the civil war bang bang.. etc.'

This blog is dumb. I'm real tired. Going to bed now. .. hopefully I will sleep this time.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

sick

Well, not too much has happened since I last wrote. I bought a bike on Saturday. My dad and I looked around at places for 5-6 hours before I actually decided on which one I wanted to get. But I did get one. It's red and grey. She's pretty good.
Other than that, I dropped a bazillion pound wooden chunk thing on my foot and my toe is purple, got pink eye, and the flu. Or something like the flu. Where you are really nauseated and throwing up and when you move your arm it takes a crap load of energy, and when you stand up the room spins and your ears ring, and then you have a temp of 102. It was pretty sweet.
That's really all. I go back to work tomorrow when I can function normally. Bye!

Monday, April 7, 2008

cleaning

Today my mission is to clean the house. Which is why I'm writing on this blog. It's pretty dirty in here. I don't think I have vacumed for mmm... about 2 months and I'll be walking on the carpet and I'll step on something sharp, and then remind myself that I should vaccum. I also haven't done any laundry since..... this is hard to admit.. ( and also remember when exacly I last did laundry.)... I believe it was February 20th... And most of that stuff was stuff I wore on vacation. The sad thing is I have enough scrubs that I don't have to do laundry. Except Yesterday all of my scrubs were dirty so I just bought some old lady clearance ones at this scrub sale at work so I wouldn't have to do laundry. I also bought some socks so I wouldn't have to do laundry. Good thing I worked at JC Penney's in the lingerie section. I think I have enough underwear to go for half of the year without doing laundry. thank god for that. Anyways, with that explanation one can imagine how much laundry I really have to do at this point in time.
I really think that if someone walked into my apartment at this time, and I wasn't home, they would think someone tried to come in and kill me and we went through a large arduous struggle. Then the murderer won and took all of my clothes out of the closet and the drawers and threw it on the floor and just picked up the pieces he/ or she wanted. Then he would have had to eat a few bowls of oatmeal and leave the dirty dishes around the house.
See, when I eat, I usually eat in random places. Especially since I'm working day shift. I don't leave myself much time to eat. So I'll make some oatmeal, and eat it in the bathroom in between washing my face and brushing my teeth. Or I'll bring the oatmeal in while I'm getting dressed and find a bowl inside of my dresser drawer. At least I don' t have many dishes to do, because I mostly just eat oatmeal or sandwiches, and Sandwiches don't take dishes.
Well, now that you all think I'm the most un-sanitary person alive, maybe I should change the subject.
Work was not fun this past weekend. I worked evening shifts, and the earliest I left the hospital was 1:30. I am supposed to be done by 11:30. Good joke hospital. I was working on tele, and the only person I worked with that actually worked in that area was the charge nurse. Then there was 3 float nurses. Float nurses are nurses that work on the medical floors, surgical floor, or the telemetry unit. Granted, these float nurses had all been float nurses in the hospital for 20 years plus. By this point in time, you would think they would have worked on tele several hundreds of times before. You would think that, and I'm sure they have, but for some reason, they all have down syndrome. Here are the things I would have to do for them.
'Annie, my patient hasn't had a bm for a couple days and really wants an enema.'
- um.. okay. I guess I'll call the on call doctor and get one ordered.
Apparently, they had no idea how to do this. REally... an enema? You don't even have to explain anythign to the doctor on call about the patient. you just say the name, who their doctor normally is, why they are here and that they are a constipated mcgee and owuld like an enema.
8 seconds later, you have an order for a fleets. NOT difficult.

Then there was this one nurse who had had an actively dying patient on a pca pump. (patient controlled analgesia) They are basically hooked up to a morphine pump that gives them so much an hour, and they can hit a little handheld button every 10 minutes or so if they want another bump or morphine. Anywho, her patient kept complaining that he was having a terrible headache and pain. I had to keep calling the doctor FOr her to get the pump raised up. I had been in her room about 50 times to fix the pump for her, because she also didnt' know how to use it. I hadn't had pca pump training since orientation.. and this was a nurse who had worked on the surgical unit.. where people have these pumps ALL of the time. BUt it really isn't that difficult to figure out. The family even asked me, ' Annie, what is the name of our nurse again?' I had been in their room so much they had no idea who their nurse really was. Then I was fixing their pump and I noticed that the other nurse had not had his handheld device plugged into the pump. So that means every time he hit the button, nothing happened. Dear God.
What really made me mad, is when I was in his room helping him and explaining things to the family and one of my patients had put her call light on while I was in the room. Both of the float nurses that I had been helping all shift just sat there and charted so they could get out on time. I finally got out of his room and ran down to my patients room because her call light had been on for about 3 mintues by then. I opened the door and found her on the floor because she really had to go to the bathroom and nobody came to help her. Then I was at work until 2 am charting and filling out all these unusual occurence forms. The patient that had fallen was fine, had no pain. I told her I was in someone elses room and I was sorry that nobody else came to help her. She was fine with it and knew I had been busy all shift. I'm just glad she didn't pull out her central line when she fell.. because she was still attatched to the iv pole when she fell, in a little puddle of pee. The float nurses didnt' even help me get her off the floor.. the charge nurse had to interrupt her report and help me clean her up and change the sheets. ppbbbbb. Now I see how nurses get burned out so easily.
I work night shift tonight, which should be interesting. I am supposed to be the charge nurse... even though I havent' really been trained in to do that... nor have I even worked there for year yet. 8 months to be exact. It's going to be awkward, because the girls that I will be working over there with started a month or two before me. ... .. Cool. This should be a good time.
Well, I'm going to go to target and buy some cleaning supplies to make me more motivated to scrub stuff. bye!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

i was looking at that last blog and noticed i wrote med surg med surge. like a surge of medical. funny.

dying

I've been orienting to the ICU for the past couple of days. It's pretty good. I actually get to think a little bit, instead of not thinking.. at all. I really don't understand how people can work on a med surge unit for 20-30 years... or even 2-3 years. Crazies. So boring.
Orientation is pretty fun, but it's like all orientations in St. Joe's. Mmm... we don't have enough staff on ever....and we aren't going to call someone in so they get payed time and a half.... so here are your ICU patients annie! My manager actually gave me the admits. She gave me some guy on a Bi-Pap with a new onset of atrial fibrillation. Sweet. She looks at me and says,' its just like an a -fib patient in tele.' Right kathy. Right. Except they're going to get cardioverted.. and I have no idea how to set that stuff up for the doctor.. nor do I know how to set the controls on the bi pap. (to those who don't know, cardioversion is when you put large conduction pads on a patient and shock them so they go back into a sinus rhythm.) Oh well. Breathing and heart function arent' that important, so if I screw up, it's fine. I guess actually doing it is one way of learning. It's just would be nice to have someone there the 1st time saying... ' this is how you do it.' Instead of me fumbling around with no clue what to do. It was also hilarious because I was putting the pads on the patient, and Dr. Dirks walks in and goes... ' you look really familiar... how do i know you? '
oh yeah, hi dr dirks, I came to see you one time in November or December for SVT.' (supra ventricular tachycardia.) aka, where your heart races for no apparent reason.

Dr dirks: Oh yeah! Hi! How's that goin for ya?

Oh you know.. good.
Then he remembered that my mom was a doctor in st cloud, and that I also liked to run.
amazing. What a good memory. He'll probably forget my name, but if he does I can just be like, 'Hey! Remember me? SVT? ' Then he'll know. Sweet. Good thing he wasn't a gynecologist. That would have been embarassing. Except I've never seen a gyno. It would have been funnier though if I had gone to see a gyno, and he or she walked into the room and said, 'you look familiar.. how do i know you?' then I could say something even more awkward, like, 'Yeah! I came to see you once with those huge pus filled vaginal sores!'
the Dr: 'Oh Yeah!! Vaginal sores!! How are those by the way? Still smelly?'

Amazing.

Today on Orentation I took care of a lady who had pneumonia, an amputation surgery, and lung cancer. She was hilarious. Loved her. We were looking at this card that her granddaughter gave her, and on the front of the card it said her name (spelled wrong of course..) The on the inside it said, (all spelled wrong)

'karen,
I am sorry you had another heart attack. I like you.

Probably the most hilarious card I have ever seen. Then there was a picture of two blobs standing between a bike and all these sticker hearts. Then the lady, (karen was her name,) says, It was a nice effort... but she knows I only have one leg.. how am I supposed to ride that bike?' Hilarious.
Except it's really sad because she's dying. Everytime the doctor comes he tells her she is dying. It's so sad. Plus with me there it makes everything 1000 times more awkward. What the hell do you say to someone who is dying? I remember when I did clinicals on the cancer unit and people were always crying telling me they were dying. that was also horrible, and is also why I don't work on a cancer unit. I like it when people die and are unconcious, and don't know in advance when they are dying. It's real nice that way. This is usually how the conversation goes with a dying person.

Pt: ' I will never be able to leave this hospital.'
Me: 'you wouldn't want to leave right now anyways, it's snowing.'

Yeah. I'm a genius. This dying lady however, is very different from all other dying people that I have seen before. She is hilarious. We pretty much have the same sense of humor so I spent most of the shift in her room with her laughing about stuff, such as the card. Then it took us 15 minutes to get her sitting at the edge of the bed comfortably to eat breakfast and as soon as she takes her first bite x-ray comes in because they needed a chest x-ray. She just looks at them and says,' good timing guys!!' Then we both just started laughing. I would try to titrate her levophed drip to control her blood pressure, and it kept drastically changing, like 60/40 - 120/80.. within 3 minutes. Then she'd look at me and just be like, 'don't worry about it, I'm an extremist!' It was an exceptionally good day, until about 1:30. Then her stupid ass jerk son called her on the phone. I was hanging her potassium drip so I got to listen in for a few minutes. He let her tell him what was going on for about 30 seconds. All she got to say was..'
'yeah.. the doctors told me I have less than 20 percent of my heart function left. '
Then she stopped and listened to her son say something, then she said, ' do you need money?'
Then she started clarifying something like, 'you didnt' get the 5,000 dollars when everyone got it, so you would be getting 20,000 instead of 15,000.'
then there was more silence.
'yeah, I can send you the money. It's not like I'll be able to use it for much longer.'

Horrible. I just wanted to take the phone from her and just be like, would you like anything else you @)*(!)#$&^!)@(#$*!@)*#$%&!*#@($@#)($%!. ooo i guess that last part is a website. What an asshole. His dying amazing hilariously funny nice one leg 80 pound mom is at the hospital and he wont' come visit her, or even let her talk to him and tell him what's going on and get some of her emotions out that she is dying. He just calls to make sure that he will get his money before she dies. Piece of shit asshole dickhead. I hope I see him walking across the road while I'm driving ayesha.She'd take him down. I wouldn't kill him, I'd just do enough to him to paralyze him so he has to lay in bed for years and get bed sores, and think about how much of a wang he is. I guess I don't really know who he is... I hope he wears a shirt that says in really large print.' my mom's name is ___ _____ and I am her asshole son. I want my money.' Maybe also some blinking lights. That'd be good for distance vision.
Well, love to write more, but I gotta go read about concsious sedation. I think I spelled that wrong.. but i'm too lazy to fix it. bye!