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| Song lyric-o-rama |
| 05.15.04 (10:55 am) [edit] |
Thanks to Sulky for hacking this from another fellow blogger. The trick is to answer the questions in song lyrics....
WHO ARE YOU?
American Girls are weather and noise
Playing the changes for all of the boys
HOW DO YOU FEEL?
Easy like Sunday morning
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
I'm all at sea
Where no one can bother me
Forgot my roots
If only for a day
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
Get me through December, so I can start again
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?
You take a K then a E, add a N and T, a U
And a C-K-Y, that spells Kentucky and it
Means Paradise
WHAT DO YOU HATE?
I'm being followed by a moonshadow
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMEONE YOU LOVE?
I'm sorry, I'm just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be
But if you wait around awhile, I'll make you fall for me
I promise you, I promise you I will
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMEONE YOU HATE?
Don't be afraid by the tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, my weapon of choice
WHAT EXACTLY IS LIFE?
On this rollin' home
Time goes by so slow
I'd get off, but it's my rollin' home
WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY?
Well, I thought about the army
Dad said, "Son you're fucking high"
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
I'm gonna get my shit together
Cause I can't live like this forever
And though I've come so far
And I don't wanna fail, I got a new computer
And a bright future in sales
WHAT ARE YOU?
Ain't nobody dope as me
I'm just so fresh, so clean
WHAT ARE YOUR FRIENDS TO YOU?
I'm a creep, I'm a wierdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
WHAT IS VALUABLE TO YOU?
Give me my money back
Give me my money back, you bitch
And don't forget to give me back
My black t-shirt
EXPLAIN YOURSELF (PERSONALITY):
Boring and old are the things you're told
About the outside world
Just wearing black won't take care of that
Don't be stupid girl
WHAT CAN'T YOU DO?
Look Good In Leather
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| Work, work, work! |
| 05.08.04 (11:30 am) [edit] |
I am on a four day stretch of work this weekend. It always seems like I work every holiday, too! I am on a rotating holiday schedule for the more "important" holidays, but I always get stuck working the piss ant holidays like Easter and Mother's Day.
My sister is slowly getting better. Her platelet count is up and she is feeling better. She will be going to plasmaphoresis every other day instead of every day now.
I was talking to a few people over chat last night through my favorite website, ex-pentecostals.org I am still trying to figure out what the whole conversation was about. It was mostly me trying to back my agnosticism. One of the people told me to read the beattitudes from the Sermon on the Mount and it would change my life. :roll: Whatever. I think I have read that a few times in my religious life and I never felt moved by that passage of Scripture. I just ignored it for the most part. Religion.....yuck. :twisted:
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| Mmmm, Cheetos! |
| 05.03.04 (9:51 pm) [edit] |
For some reason people treat the ER like a cafeteria or lunchroom. I was asked by a woman who was visiting a patient for some water and when I went in the room to give her the cup of water, she had a whole spread of food and was digging her big ol' arm in a super size bag of Cheetos. The patient was sitting on the exam table licking her fingers. She was so large whe looked like a beached whale. They both asked me for some napkins then. I just pointed to the paper towel container on the wall and walked out.
We had one patient in tonight who obviously had a altered mental status. All he kept saying is "Alabama". The doctors and nurses couldn't get anything out of him, except for the fact that he was from Alabama! Crazy.
Changing the subject....my sister seems to be doing better. She is still in the hospital but should be out in the next few days. She will still be going back every day for her plasmaphoresis, but at least she will be able to go home and see her cats, Sunny and Murray. Today an ultrasound was done of the baby and they found a heartbeat. Now that the baby has survived this far they will be doing ultrasounds every few weeks to see if there are any developmental problems. I hope she and the baby will be fine.
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| Once, twice, three times a lady |
| 04.27.04 (10:02 pm) [edit] |
My sister is my best friend and she is very sick. She has been diagnosed with TTP, a rare life threatening blood disease that only affects one in a million people per year. It has a 20% mortality rate. She is in the hospital for at least 2 weeks and maybe more. She gets 15 units of plasma a day in a procedure that lasts three hours. She gets very sick during the procedure because of a drop in calcium that is caused by the added anticoagulants in the plasma. During the procedure she is constantly eating Tums and drinking milk. The big thing is that she is 6 weeks pregnant and she is scared that she will lose the baby because of all she is going through.
They did an ultrasound of the baby today and everything looks good so far, for a six week old pregnancy. No heart beat yet, but that might not be for another week or two.
I am very worried about her. But I am staying strong because she needs positive energy. I was with her yesterday and I will be there tomorrow. Since she has a VCR in her room we are having movie night tomorrow night. I will bring some popcorn and we can veg-out in her room. We are going to watch "Big Fish" - I believe it came out today.
As far as my weight loss surgery. I have a consultation on May 13th. I have studied the surgery for years, but wasn't always interested in it. There are positive things and negative things about the surgery. I just want to know more about it from a doctors point of view. Who knows?
I just want to focus on my sister for now. :lol:
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| Deep thoughts by Badoobie2 |
| 04.19.04 (10:39 pm) [edit] |
Throughout the years I have seriously thought about weight loss surgery. I didn't want to do anything about it because I thought that I might want to have more kids. Arcade and I haven't actually said absolutely no to more kids, but we are leaning more towards no.
The past few days I have thought more seriously about weight loss surgery. I really want to be thin and I have struggled with weight since puberty. My whole family is heavy and I know I am genetically built to be a bigger than the average bear. I don't want to be Britney Spears thin, but I would like to drop a good 100 pounds or so. Most people don't believe that I have 100 pounds to lose, but I probably have 120 or more to lose. I want to be able to go to the juniors rack in my local clothing store and pick out a size 10 or 12.
Tomorrow I am going to start researching weight loss surgery more. I know my insurance would cover it. I just have to find the right hospital and the right doctor. Of course, I want to discuss it with Arcade some more. I would need to take a few weeks off work and such, but all that stuff is minor details.
I think that warmer weather does this to everybody. I want to look nice in shorts. I want to look decent in a swimsuit. I hate being fat. :(
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| Put another log on the fire.... |
| 04.16.04 (7:31 pm) [edit] |
or something like that. What I am trying to say is there is going to be a new addition to my family!!!!! My sister, who has been trying to get pregnant for two years, is finally with child!!! Yay! I am going to be an aunt for the sixth time!! :D
I am so excited!!! I can hardly stand it. I hope all goes well with her.
I met my old friend, Scott today for lunch. I had a nice time as we reminisced about old times for almost two hours. I hope to see him again sometime...next time it is my turn to buy lunch.
In the ER tonight there is an abundance of overdoses and psycho people being seen. The best story tonight is the woman who brought her 3 year old child in because he wouldn't stand or walk. She thought that he had hurt his foot or leg. Turns out the kid had been walking with sand in his shoes all day and he didn't have any socks on. Ouch. People are so dumb......
I just registered a patient who requested some water. Meanwhile his wife was taking out his dreads with a comb, picking through his hair. Yuck!!!!!! I swear people use the ER to sit back, relax and get waited on.
Peace.
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| Wasting Time |
| 04.15.04 (10:46 pm) [edit] |
At work. Bored. Have 50 minutes left to fill in a few blanks in this lovely survey.......I have my employer to thank for allowing me to get paid for doing this. :)
15 Years Ago, I:
1. was in 8th grade
2. was talking to a local DJ on the phone almost every night flirting with him enough to get him to play my favorite Madonna songs
3. was in love with Michael J. Fox
4. was in love with New Kids on the Block
5. was in love with every boy I met.... :)
10 Years Ago, I:
1. was 18 years old
2. just got back from Mazatlan, Mexico
3. was sick all the time from my appendix (but didn't know it)
4. was flunking out of college
5. obtained a fake ID and drank too much
5 Years Ago, I:
1. was 23 years old
2. was meeting guys online....including my husband
3. was spending time shooting my bbgun at a metal bowl in my apartment with my pot head neighbor
4. was hating my job at a local hospital
5. was helping my sister plan her wedding
3 Years Ago, I:
1. was 25 years old
2. was recovering from having a c-section
3. was getting used to having a child
4. was enjoying my time off work to spend with my baby
5. was struggling financially
1 Year Ago, I:
1. was 27 years old
2. was unemployed
3. was pregnant but didn't know it
4. was on edge constantly from being with my toddler so much
5. my marriage was starting to crumble
Yesterday, I:
1. Slept in late....thanks to my hubby.
2. Painted my dresser from when I was a little girl.
3. Emailed and browsed some blogs
4. Made cupcakes with my little girl
5. Went to bed early after cleaning the house.
Today, I:
1. slept late again.....thanks to my hubby again
2. took a shower.....really, I did!!
3. played outside with my little girl
4. got ready for work
5. talked to a really old friend.....it has been about 10 years - feels good to talk to him again.
Top 5 Songs Lately:
1. Rollin Home - Tyler Hilton
2. I Wish - Jem
3. Falling - Mindy Smith
4. Go Ahead - Rilo Kiley
5. Shakin' - Rooney
Places I've Lived:
1. Evanston, IL
2. Wisconsin Dells, WI
3. Janesville, WI
4. Milwaukee, WI
Okay, I am surveyed out. I can't do it anymore. My 50 minutes is almost up anyway.
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| Happy Anniversary!! |
| 04.13.04 (10:34 pm) [edit] |
Today is my 4th wedding anniversary. It has been a tough year, but I think we are on the right track. Ten years ago, I would have never guessed that I would be married with a cute little girl. Dreams do come true!!
At work the only good story is the man who came in with an overdose of rubbing alcohol and baby oil. He is in ICU still, and I doubt he will ever be normal again. Wierd.
I have been working with this girl for a few months now and we have talked occasionally, she is a unit secretary and I am in registration. Come to find out...after a little bit of conversation she is from my hometown!!! We had a crush on the same guy at around the same time. Obviously he ignored us both and decided to get married to someone else. Oh well.....the story continues with me knowing her aunt and uncle very well, too! I love it. Next time we work we are both bringing in pictures and yearbooks to reminisce about times gone by. We both went to different high schools, but ended up knowing alot of the same people. :)
I rearranged my daughters room last weekend and tonight I decided to rearrange the furniture in my bedroom. It is a welcome change.
Happy tax day tomorrow! :?
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| Shadow Lyndon |
| 04.05.04 (8:58 pm) [edit] |
That is my porn name......my first pets name and then the street I grew up on. What is yours? The best ones I heard around work tonight were Roxanne Rodgers and Izzy Underwood.
Tonight has been very busy tonight in the ER. It is a full moon and there have been some crazy people in to see doctors. I think the one that is most memorable is the woman who is on her 7th pregnancy and is 21 years old. She has three living children and then she has had two miscarriages and two abortions. Ummmm, can anyone say "birth control"? She is in for treatment of her gonorrhea. What is wrong with these people?
All I can say about the rest of them is that they are incompetant as can be and I wish I had a shot gun at my desk most of the time. :wink:
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| Flesh Eating Maggots |
| 03.30.04 (9:51 pm) [edit] |
Tonight has been fairly eventful in the ER. We had a man who complained of having a flesh eating maggot in his nose for three years. He kept having conversations with himself......or with his maggot friend. He didn't stay long, he left AMA (against medical advice) about five minutes after checking in. I have a few questions regarding this. Don't maggots turn into flies? And doesn't the average house fly have a life span of about 37 days? :lol:
In my personal life, there are family problems abundant. For once, it isn't my family with the problems. My husbands brother has expressed his dislike for me to my husband and his mother. Okay, so I am not always liked by everyone, but isn't everyone allowed to make mistakes? It isn't like he has a past that is squeaky clean either. I cannot please him and I am not about to try.
My husband is moving back in permanently as of tomorrow. I am glad to have him back. I have missed him in the past 4 months....and I have especially missed his snoring.
Things are quiet right now in the ER. It is 11:45pm and the only sound I hear is doctors laughing and some base from the music they are listening to here in the "arena" -which is the center of the ER where all the action happens. Ahhhhh. Peace. :)
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| Bored, bored, bored |
| 03.26.04 (7:00 pm) [edit] |
Work is very slow tonight. Believe it or not, Fridays are the slowest day in our ER. Mondays are our busiest. Nothing wierd has happened lately in the ER.
I have been afflicted with a skin abcess. My primary family doctor was just going to put me on antibiotics and send me to a surgeon. I called him a wuss. He laughed at me and told me that he would drain it, but that he wan't too fond of blood. (We have a good relationship, we laugh at each other quite a bit, I make fun of him alot) He is a fun loving guy and a great doctor, but he just doesn't like to do anything complicated. I told him that if he did more procedures, he would get paid more. I guess he doesn't care. Oh well. It feels better since he drained it. He put me on antibiotics and hopefully it will heal up nicely.
I hope this is the last of my illnesses. I have been at the doctors office quite a bit lately.
My personal life is going well. My husband and I are definitely working well together so far. Although, as always he never tells me anything, so if he is thinking anything bad, he hasn't told me lately. He is a bit on the crabby side tonight. There is a bit of jealousy between him and his brother about a few things and it makes him upset. Actually, it makes me upset, too!!
I am reading a good book, a very funny book called, "Bleachy Haired Honky Bitch" by Hollis Gillespie. It is quite humorous while she talks about her alcoholic father and her missle building mother. She references her two gay friends in every chapter of the book, mostly just to make fun of them.
I am just randomly talking. I think I will sign off.....
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| Among the wierdest..... |
| 03.18.04 (6:07 pm) [edit] |
So there is a man in our minor ER department who was acting a little strange. The fact that this was his sixth visit in six months for an STD check is strange to begin with. He was very suspicious and very paranoid about the fact that there were cops just roaming the ER. Cops roaming about the ER is not an out of the ordinary thing. In any case, one of the cops is a very well known person in the ER and since the guy was acting so wierd he decided to run the guys name through for any legal record he might have. Turns out the guy was driving a stolen car AND had over $3,000 in Victoria's Secret lingerie in his car!! Needless to say that he was arrested on the spot.
I just went in a room to register a man who is here for back pain. He bluntly said to me, "Put on some gloves and rub my back for me, baby girl." I told him that he could get some medicine in a short while. He replied by saying, "I think you could do a better job!" Oh my! All this coming from a man who smells like he hasn't taken a bath in weeks!!
Just wait a few minutes and there will be more excitement. A man was dropped off by some people who asked for a wheelchair and then left him and asked for a number where they could check on him. This man needed to be intubated and is on deaths door!! He is very, very drunk. What friends!! Geez O Pete!
All of this and the night is very young!!
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| Shiny Happy Thursday! |
| 03.17.04 (9:48 pm) [edit] |
Well, therapy wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. It was mostly a session to get history from us, where the marital problems started, what our family history is. It took my husband about 5 minutes to tell his family history. Me, well........it was much longer and you should have seen the diagram the woman was drawing on her sheet of paper! :o Holy Monkey!! My mother has been married five times and my dad three. I have one brother and six sisters who are all half to me (either we share the same dad or the same mom). It is so confusing, I can hardly keep it straight sometimes.
Needless to say, I am looking forward to next weeks session!! :D
I have had two days off work and it has been fun. The girl and I have had a good time playing Candy Land (I am always the blue guy). We have done about twenty puzzles in the last two days. She is an amazing little girl. I took her to the mall tonight and she was an angel. Her funny saying tonight was while she was laying on me and I was tickling her she said, "Mommy, I am laughing on you!!" :lol:
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| Therapy and more..... |
| 03.16.04 (9:42 pm) [edit] |
I can't sleep. I am dead tired. I keep thinking what tomorrow morning might bring when my husband and I have our first marriage counseling session. I think I will end up just crying most of the time, just because I am so frustrated. :cry:
I don't even know where to start when the therapist asks us questions. I am sure she is very skilled at what she does, but it is hard to know what is actually going to go down.
I am expecting some spousal bashing. I don't know though. We know what needs to be corrected, but I don't know if it can be fixed or not. We just need help in how to correct it.
He is the most awesome, kind, and gentle person I might ever meet, but since he can't express emotions and won't ever tell me what he is thinking it is hard to communicate with him. I have thought for a long time that he just hasn't cared about anything because he doesn't verbalize an opinion and is so passive about everything. That is where I take over, because I see that nothing is getting done, so I take control. :twisted:
Anyway, I am going to try to go back to bed. Thank goodness for Tylenol PM!!! :)
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| Survey, survey |
| 03.15.04 (10:14 pm) [edit] |
1. What was the last song you heard?
"Gin" - Amy Correia
2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Lost in Translation and Office Space
3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Little Debbie snack cakes from the hospital crapeteria, McDonalds Happy Meal, and a cd off of half.com.
4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Taking my daughter to her tumbling teddy class. Spending time with my incredible husband, possibly spending some time alone with him. Maybe a date? Movie and dinner? Other than that? Nothing.
5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
My husband through an email, co-workers, my sister.
This was something to do while I wait for my time to be done at work. :?
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| NKOTB! |
| 03.15.04 (8:05 pm) [edit] |
Yes tonight is New Kids on the Block listening night in patient registration!! My co-workers and I brought in our old NKOTB tapes and are jamming!! For all of you who are in their middle to late twenties know all about the NKOTB! I find it funny that I still know many of the words and harmonies!
My music tastes have sure changed (and for the better) I am very much the alternative girl now. My current favorite is [b]Howie Day[/b] and my husband has introduced me to [b]Rosie Thomas[/b], I have downloaded a few of her songs off the web and have recently ordered her cd off of half.com and I am very excited to get it!! New music is so exciting for me!! I really look forward to listening to any new music.
I am also looking forward to going to a concert on April 1st. My sister, L. was going to be going with me, but plans have changed and it looks as though I will be going alone. Bummer. I am going to see Jonatha Brooke, she has a fantastic voice. Her new album, [i]Back in the Circus[/i] is not her best work, but it sure would win over Britney Spears any day!!! Okay, so she might not look as hot as BS (her initials are that for a reason!), but artistically she rocks! Wait.....who doesn't rock artistically over BS? :roll:
Work is fine tonight. I am just sitting back waiting for one of my co-workers to come back from lunch, so I can go see my little monkey on my break.
I am back from my break, I love spending time with my girl. She is sooo cute. I can hardly stand it. I was able to read her some bedtime stories before she went to bed. :)
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| Ouch! |
| 03.13.04 (6:31 pm) [edit] |
My infected left ear has turned into a bloody mess since my daughter decided to "help" me put in my ear drops....she stabbed the dropper in my ear and it kept bleeding for a few hours. I had one of the docs look at it and she scraped a piece of skin off in the ear canal. It doesn't hurt as much as it bugs me that I can't hear! I feel as though I am talking under water. I went to my regular doctor yesterday and he flushed my ear and found a outer ear infection, but the doc here says I have an inner ear infection. He is going to give me oral antibiotics. What a buddy!!
I got a good nap in before I got to work tonight. This is night number #2 out of a four day stretch. It is early in the evening yet, all I have to complain about is a man who is in a room right across from my desk who has very stinky feet!! Yuck! He is stinking up the whole ER!!
I was asked to go out with one of my friends, but alas this night has kicked my ass and I am too tired. Such is the life of a working mother with a bad ear!!
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| Medical Muse |
| 03.12.04 (6:53 pm) [edit] |
A few nights ago I was working and things happened that were out of the ordinary. There was a woman that came in saying that her water broke and she was very giggly. Come to find out that she was very intoxicated and is 37 weeks pregnant! She was sitting at the bar and her water broke! A man who was sitting next to her brought her in and told her to fess up about being drunk. Obviously, the smell was just pouring out of her. I asked her quite blatently why she was at a bar, drinking and pregnant? She told me that she was a bad pregnancy for her, that she was raped and that is why she is pregnant in the first place. So, why are you hurting your baby by drinking yourself to insanity? I was very tempted to ask her why she didn't just get an abortion in the first place instead of harming her innocent child?? Unbelieveable!!
A few nights back, I got to watch the ER techs bag up a corpse. Interesting. This was a 75 year old lady who died in the ER. She came in for something fairly common, low blood sugar and then coded...which is also called flatlining or in Layman's terms...her heart stopping. The techs did CPR on her for a half hour, but no use. While I watched them bag her naked body up in this big white bag with a black zipper I noticed all the bodily fluids coming out of her. Gross!! It stunk so bad, I had to leave the room. Her legs had scales of dead skin on them. She was a resident of a nursing home and obviously didn't have much care in the way of bathing. Nursing homes are bad news. I hope I never end up in one.
My blog sucks, because I have no experience in the HTML stuff. My significant other needs to help me in this area, but I doubt he ever will. Just because we need to work on our relationship, not my blogging techniques.
I have made a date for our wedding anniversary. I booked a room in the same bed and breakfast where we stayed for our wedding weekend. I just sent him an invitaion in the mail to meet me there......although we probably won't meet there, we will go together. The night will be filled with wine drinking, good food, and massages!! I can't wait!!
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| Welcome! |
| 03.05.04 (6:21 pm) [edit] |
I started this blog to be like my husband, yes, exactly like him! Check out his blog.
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I work at a hospital in registration/patient accounts. I have been working here for about 9 months. I have some really crazy stories, but also some sad ones. I work mostly in the Emergency Room at the hospital. The hospital I work at is in a lower class part of town. I will have to go back and recap all of the freaky stories since I started here. Some are unbelieveable!
Other than that my personal life is rather boring. I am married, but am in the process of getting a divorce. Although, my husband and I are going to start to go to therapy to see if we can work things out or not. I have a three year old daughter who is my sunshine, my only sunshine, she DEFINITELY makes me happy when skies are gray.
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