yeah, so, that deadly 36-car pileup on 390 yesterday? yeah. most of them are my patients. thanks, trauma unit. there's two broken spines, one massive thoracic trauma, one moderate internal injuries, and one with a wicked head injury who's being kept in a medically induced coma ( Read more... )

so, a couple weeks ago or whatever, after running my fat self on the treadmill at the hospital gym, my back started to hurt. i feel as if i have a decent amount of tolerance for pain, so i just took some tylenol and bitched about it a little and figured it would get better. well, last week after work aaron and i were running some errands and i ( Read more... )

janis i must say that my mother thoroughly enjoyed the message you left on the answering machine.

(for real)

my mom gets here tomorrow at 2pm. of course i pretty much waited until now to get the house straightened up, but it's not so bad.. i'm sure i'll be done soon. and i think she's planning on buying/installing a new kitchen sink and faucet for me (!!!!) which is totally rad. i've picked out a single-well white enamel deal. oh, the mundane things that ( Read more... )

the past few days at work have been pretty bad. or, supremely annoying at best. so tomorrow i'm going to get up at 430am, go to the hospital gym and run for an hour, take a shower in the scary circa-1925 locker room, change into the wrinkly scrubs i've shoved into my gym bag, and go face the day at work. and as long as it doesn't involve my ( Read more... )

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i absolutely love the packaging design of this product. and they taste pretty good, too.


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so today i had a sinus biopsy. ugh! i was completely not prepared for or expecting it. the doctor sprayed this super-bitter topical anesthetic/phenylephrine stuff up my left nostril with something that looked like a wagner spray-painter (it was seriously powered by an air compressor) and then left for a few minutes so the topical anesthetic could ( Read more... )

i'm excited about christmas. although i won't be going to florida (sorry tami.. i really wanted to see you :( ) since i only have christmas day off - i work the weekend before christmas and every day that week except the 25th. but it'll be sweet to have christmas with aaron, just me and him. then my mom is coming up sometime in january, and i'm way ( Read more... )

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