Miss America

This pageant is hilarious. They all had to come out and introduce themselves while saying something cute about their state. All Miss Delaware could come up with was "home of Henry Heimlich." Oy vey.

The Star Trek Voyager Finale

I never actually watched the finale when it first aired, so its kind of cool to watch it now. Two things strike me while watching Endgame:

1. I am super glad that I live in a time in which temporal technology has not been invented. There is no way I could deal with the fucked up mind game that is a temporal paradox.

2. Captain Janeway kicks a lot of ass. I'm very glad they allowed the focus of the finale to be on Janeway and not Seven, which is sort of what has been happening in the past few seasons. I mean, good lord, Janeway singlehandedly just killed the Borg Queen, destroyed what seems to be a good part of the Collective, and managed to get Voyager home by bursting out of a Borg sphere like the Millennium Falcon yeehaing away from the imploding Death Star. It wasn't quite Picard saving all of humanity from not ever existing, but it was pretty fucking good.

The Age Old Question

So on Star Trek, they are constantly encountering random ass phenomenas that threaten to destroy the ship and inevitably someone needs to recalibrate the sensors or the phasers or the shields or whatever. Why don't they just keep the sensors calibrated to detect everything and save everyone a lot of time?

Day 2 in the ER

Pretty intense stuff today. First this paramedics brought in this woman who had been found lying on the floor of her FEMA trailer and was freezing cold and didn't have a pulse and was essentially dead. Still, we spent like, twenty minutes doing compressions and shocking her and pumping her full of meds before they called the code. It was pretty surreal to do compressions on someone who you knew wasn't going to make it.

Then, pretty much right after they officially said she was dead, another woman came in who was having an acute MI. Seriously, it was intense. The nurses and doctors were running around setting up lines, pumping her full of meds, doing all this stuff. It was crazy. I just stood against the wall and watched and tried to not get in the way, because I had absolutely no idea what to do. They do not teach you how to deal with these situations in medical school. Anyway, this woman stabilized and will hopefully be okay. One of the things I don't like about ER is that there isn't really any follow-up. After she was stabilized and moved off the floor, thats it.

I think I am going to need to go to the gym and work out, or my shoulders will not be able to handle it. You have to push super hard during those compressions.

Ha!

I was close. Snotty 9 year olds, snotty 17 year olds, its all the same. Maybe being in the bottom will knock Christian off his pedestal a bit.

Quote of the episode, from Ricky: "I had a girlfriend when I went to prom. I actually made her dress... that should have been a clue."

My patient has still not gone home. She is totally getting white coat phobia and kind of freaks out anytime someone comes into her room, which only happens every three minutes or so. I tried to look in her mouth to see if she has a sore or something that is making her not want to eat and I was completely shut down. I barely even saw teeth. I'm kind of sad that I came back to New York this evening and won't get to see her everyday. At the same time, I really hope she's not still in the hospital when I get back to New Orleans. I think her mom is like, teetering on the edge.

Oy vey

She did not go home. Last night her potassium skyrocketed up to 7.2 and they sent her back to the PICU. She's doing better today and they got her potassium back down to a non-lethal level and moved her back to the floor this afternoon, but still. It is not home. I totally put the kaynahorah on her.

Hmm

Bizarre. Very bizarre.

Things that have never been said to me, but could have been

Counselor Deanna Troy:

"Do you have any idea how inappropriate it is to follow your therapist on vacation?!"

Yay!

My PICU patient is going home tomorrow!

Pro Ro Prediction

The "clients from hell" in next week's episode:

snotty 9 year old girls.


lets watch what happens....

PICU Update

My kid with MMA who was in the PICU before break is doing way better. She's come a long way from having a 30% chance of surviving and being intubated and sedated and paralyzed. She's awake and alert and breathing on her own and gave me a high five and is being moved to the floor today. Yay!

LSU Fandom on Crack

This morning I was listening to the radio, and I heard the most ridiculous commercial ever:

"This is The Bayou's (the radio station name) Oh- Hi- NO week. Until LSU wins the Championship against Ohio State, we will not play the music of any artist from Ohio. No Pretenders, no Crosby, Stills and Nash, nothing. If we accidentally play a song by someone from Ohio, let us know, and we'll immediately stop."

And the sad part was, this is The Bayou 95.7, the only tolerable classic rock station in New Orleans.

Oy vey.