My friend D just thoughtfully texted me, having previously told me she was on the way to Arizona: “I’m in Salt Lake City airport. Do you need any jacked-up-on-Jesus jewelry?” Obviously I was immediately intrigued. “Out of sheer curiosity,” I wrote, “I’m interested to see what jacked-up-on-Jesus jewelry would even look like.” My curiosity went
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Podunk Hospital sent my dad on a helicopter to Giant Metro Hospital on account of he ended up with a 99% occluded LAD artery (which Podunk Cardiologist accurately portrayed as “stress test was bad! Very bad!” followed by “angiography results are bad! Very bad!”). By this morning I was tired! Very tired! On account of
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I’m back at the hospital with my dad. Chest pain woke him up this morning, and he looked all gray and “I’m totally having a major STEMI,” so we came to Small Local Podunk ER. It appears to have about five rooms, no kidding. There were no wheelchairs in the entry, in the waiting room,
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Before I became a vampire ER nurse, I used to sit at home editing medical materials (mostly journals). A job at which I made more money than I do now, sat on my ass all day, and declined to work at all if I felt like eating bonbons instead. But I digress. Like any field,
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I’m totally still procrastinating, but it’s to prepare me for work. This is actually pretty cool. I like to write in Multimarkdown, so I’ve got Byword running on my Mac, and I’m using DisplayPad to mirror my Mac’s screen on my iPad so I can have Marked running right next to me. This prevents the
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I normally don’t make fun of my coworkers (online), but this is classic and mainly because it is like something I would do, so it’s OK. Someone I work with was being stalked by Creepy Maintenance Guy, which I actually would have put up with if I were her because he kept bringing her food,
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Yes, -gate is a productive morpheme, so I can totally make my shoulder injury sound deeply important by calling it shouldergate. Don’t judge me. I already blogged about the original injury, but now there’s more, so it’s a -gate now. You see, I am uncoordinated by nature and also horribly out of shape, the combination
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I am trying to eat better, but I’m fundamentally lazy. Always have been. However, I’m pretty good at eating reasonably healthy food that requires minimal effort. I thought I’d start posting some of my recipes because all the nurses I know say “I’d like to eat better, but I don’t have time.” Welcome to the
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To exemplify the difference between nurses and everyone else, I offer the following story. At the gym I was doing a biceps curl and something popped in my left upper chest. The pop came with a shooting pain that caused my hand to open in surprise, thus subsequently causing me to dance around to avoid
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I read all three books in The Hunger Games trilogy last week when I had pneumonia and nothing better to do, and I saw the movie yesterday. Interesting stuff. I couldn’t help, while both reading and watching, drawing a number of connections among a lot of literary and mythical themes. The very first thing I
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