Well, not really.This week we had a party for Neuroscience Nurses Day, or Week, or Something Along Those Lines. I was interested to see that the woman who holds herself out as the Director of Neurosc...
When I met Max, he was still a puppy. He mightve been nine or ten months old, with those perfect white adult teeth that hadnt seen any wear, except where one was exposed to the roots, where his gums ...
Thats how I feel right now. My pal Nikki, late of "CatsNotCancer," is doing THIS.Nikki, although you wouldnt know it to look at her, has ovaries of titanium and shoots laser beams out of her ...
But honestly, when somebody calls me when Ive got two phones already ringing off the hook, a patient whos about to code, six people lined up to ask questions about random neuro stuff, a housekeeper w...
Phiddipus audax, the Daring Jumping Spider (how much do you love that name?) is making its summer home in my house. We do this every year: I see a cute black spider with white spots and bluish-green ...
For The Boy.
Im strung out on pseudoephedrine (that beautiful demon) and researching plants from exotic nurseries. These are not, as you might think, nurseries that have dancing poles and topless women all over t...
I got home tonight to discover that The Best Boy had a bloody head. Not specks or splotches of blood, but patches of bright red rubbed-off blood that had come from somewhere else. When I looked close...
No nasties in my chest.There were a couple of swollen lymph nodes, one borderline, but once Dr. Crane looked at the back of my sinuses (conveniently exposed for his perusal) he said, "Oh my gosh!...
Theres a lot going on at work, but Im too distracted to write about it right now.I had my first follow up chest CT today, with and without contrast, wahoo. Stevie was very kind and put a 22g IV into ...
I wish I had something to give as a prize for Follower One Thousand and Follower One Thousand One. Youre Minions; thatll have to do.Welcome, Minions! Await my orders.
The Project is well underway at this point. Thanks a thousand times to all of you who responded; the person who ended up getting the assignment emailed me this morning and said, "Well, its actual...
Once in a while, something happens at work that is so traumatic, so difficult to talk about, that I dont even want to post it on the blog. One of those things happened this week.The minute I turned a...
If so, please shoot me an email at johannebertha at gmail you know the rest.Thankee. I may have a commission for you.
That you send your best wishes to Nurse Ames, who has spent thousands of minutes waiting for me to get done with yet another damn scan and driving me back and forth to said damn scans, tomorrow. Shes...
Your voice is my favorite sound.
Its the fossilized shell of a squidesque beastie that lived in the late Cretaceous (IIRC) period and which died out with the dinosaurs. The shells of those guys were apparently made of something very...
Wake up to a cat licking your knuckles. Roll out of bed, stopping mid-roll to rub the doggy belleh presented to you. Start the coffeemaker, then pee.Check your messages. Notice that your trainer has ...
We had a patient recently who had something Ive never seen before (for that matter, neither had the physician). Hed infarcted his corpus callosum.Now: If youre not a brains person, this wont mean jac...
Im waiting for a call back from the insurance peeps. They called earlier regarding my appeal, I called em back, got voice mail, and left a message.Pray, chant, shake your booty, light incense, whatev...
This past week, I was stroke coordinator, advisor to the publications department, advisor to the computer guys who are installing new monitors, preceptor to two nurses, secretary, patient care aide, ...
First you go to the local butcher and ask for a pound of ground pork, the leanest possible, run through the grinder four times. No more, no less. Four times.Then you get a pound of veal, run through ...
1. Standing around on rounds with the chairman of the department and the United Nations of Neurology (aka the residents), trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with a particular person. "He...
Nobody died over the last four days: good.TPA given to two people who needed it: good.TPA given to one person who has a factitious/psychological disorder: well, no harm done.Intubation of one patient...
Well, were moved. We have a spandy clean new unit with seven (!!!) beds, monitors, a central monitoring station, computers that work, (oh, crap, I just realized I have to call them about the call lig...
1. While cancer might be simultaneously boring and terrifying, it beats waiting for the surveillance scans. Theres an up-and-down rhythm to getting your lymph nodes biopsied (ow!) that just isnt matc...
(Bruce Cockburn, Lou Reed, and Roseanne Cash)"...and guess what? I felt the baby kick today."Merry Christmas, yall.
A Young Nurse asked Auntie Jo for advice this week. Poor, deluded Young Nurse.Our correspondent asked this: "What do I do when a doctor or older nurse snickers at an answer I give to a question, ...
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