Lookalikes

VJ, Alexa and I were talking about this a couple weeks ago. Who else thinks Celia looks like a young Sandra Oh?

Who's Da Man?

Wow, in the past 8 months, I've had 4000 visitors to my blogsite. Granted, its probably the same people reading it on a somewhat regular basis. Plus I visit my own site so I can read the comments that people leave. I've been checking the stats on my site meter and there are people from all over North America, Asia, Europe, and one person from Africa that have visited my site. Weird. Now they know all kinds of crap about me. Its a good thing I didn't use my real name in the url. I'm guessing they came across it in with that "next blog" thing in the corner. I did a search once for something and one of the search hits was my own blog because I had the search word in the title of one of my entries. That's just crazy. I'm totally feeling like the man now cuz I'm so damn popular. Four THOUSAND. That's 500/month or about 17/day. God, I'm a egotistic jerk...

Everybody Has a Story Part 7

Last week I worked on the ward. We had to do a patient swap with another hospital and the new patient we got was a 40-something-old man that just had surgery on his ankle. Not a huge surgery but still pretty painful. The thing about getting patients from other hospitals is that we can't do anything until one of the docs at our hospital comes and sees the patient and writes orders. The doc we were waiting for was stuck in emerg so she was a little late seeing the patient. Normally, this isn't a big deal except the guy needed some pain medication. He was pretty pissed that he couldn't get anything especially since at the other hospital he was well pain-controlled. After a little over an hour I decided, "screw this, I'm going to give him the same pain-killers he was getting at the other hospital." even though he wasn't even my patient. This is kinda frowned on cuz I'm giving medication without a doctor's order, but I kinda knew the doc we were waiting for and I was pretty sure she would just order the same thing anyway. So I gave it to him and then left him alone to cool off and to let the medication kick in. A couple hours later I went in to see him and he was feeling much better and was in a better mood. He apologized for losing his temper and thanked me for helping him out. It turned out to be a good shift for me.

Milestones

No, not the restaurant even if they make a great steak. I'm approaching my 4000th visitor (and I don't mean I've gotten my period 4000 times - I'm a guy, I don't menstruate) and I'm going to celebrate. If you're reading this and you scroll down a bit, check if you're #4000. If you are and you send me a picture, I'll post whatever picture you send me. Unless its a picture of me doing something really embarrassing. Keep in mind that I get final say in all entries. If I get more than one entry, than one of you bastards are lying and I'm not going to post anything.

TV Series Review

This is a new first for me.

Grey's Anatomy with Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl and a bunch of dudes

This is a great show. I especially like how they always tell each other about interesting patients and they go running to see it for themselves.

Back in the Saddle

On Saturday I picked up a shift at the hospital. Its so weird going back there. Half the people I used to work with are all gone and there are a tonne of new grads hanging out. Back in my bedside days I would have been bossing them all around but now I'm asking them things like, "how do I fill out this new form?" and "where do you guys keep the heparin?" I felt like a new grad. Its fun though, to go back and work with patients again. The bunch that I had were really good. I got to make a few jokes with them, we made some progress in their care, told a few stories, and still got a lot done. It almost makes me miss working on the ward. Almost. I still wouldn't go back full-time unless I absolutely had to.

Pet Peeve: when I tell people I have a desk job and they ask, "So you're not a nurse anymore?" Get your minds out of that little tiny tunnel! Just because I'm not wiping someone's ass doesn't mean I'm not a nurse. You should be asking this: "So what area of nursing does that fall under?" or better yet, say "Sweet, dude. So you don't come home stinking like someone else's shit anymore."

Busy

I always know when I'm getting really busy at work because when I get home, I can't seem to write in my blog. Right now, I'm working on a couple of different projects at once. It's great cuz it keeps me busy but it sux because now I'm working my ass off without feeling like I'm getting anywhere. Oh well. I think I work a little better when I'm really busy. Or maybe I don't and its all in my head.

Last week I went to Cypress on Monday night. It was great! Even though the runs were all groomed and there was no fresh powder, it was still pretty soft (compared to night boarding last year).

Hmm...

1. When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
2. When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
3. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
4. When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
5. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
6. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
7. What if there were no hypothetical questions?
8. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
9. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
10. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
11. I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
12. Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
13. If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
14. I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
15. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
16. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
17. Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
18. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
19. I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
20. Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
21. At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
22. The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.