So it is Saturday morning, the hour is as usual, 5 am, and just for reference sake that means before dawn's light.  The darkness is my cohort every morning and for some reason beyond my control I cannot seem to keep that cohort from poking me on weekends as well.  I wake up to the insistence that a big red dog needs to scout the great outdoors, I ( Read more... )

I knew when I began my “schooling” almost 2 years ago there would be a portion of the time where I would be exposed to the “volunteer” time I now lovingly know as 500 hours of clinical experience. I have been in a whirlwind for most of the 4 months of arriving at the hospital by 6:30am until the signal sounds at 3pm that my day has come to an end ( Read more... )

Wow, general classes at school have now been officially deemed behind me, well just behind me for a week of spring flinging. After said fling I will be returning for the final countdown. I have 9 full months of full on medical technique education left and I will officially stand as the proud recipient of an Associates Degree in Applied Science as ( Read more... )

I ponder, is it the older I have gotten the less I tolerate or perhaps it is the other way around. I can guarantee that it is the later that I adhere to. Most definitely the older I have gotten the more I tolerate. I, quite frankly, am more than a bit confused about the whole thing. I learned that patience is a virtue somewhere between my 30th ( Read more... )

My kids always called it the “amazement” park. It is amazing ( Read more... )

I am a member of the ditl community and I decided that I would participate this past Wednesday by sharing a day in my life. I carried the camera around with me as I trudged through my activities and I took a couple of hundred pictures of this and a bit of that. For the past couple of days I have been editing and positioning them so that I could share ( Read more... )

For the last couple of months I have acquired the habit of listening to a police/fire/rescue scanner. I purchased the rights to listen in on all the excitement for only $1.99 per “There is an App for that” on my phone. I listen to all of the 10-4s, the signal 89s, and the crime that unfolds in the wee hours of the night when I can not seem to ( Read more... )

As the words of my grandmother echo in my ears, let’s just say we are adding a bit of bad to worse ( Read more... )

I knew I should not have done it but of course the pull was way too strong. I opened the webpage and watched as the horror slowly unfolded before me. Like methodical dominos the news stories rolled over on to themselves each one with explanations of horrors that have unfolded or even yet to be discovered ( Read more... )

On December 10th a very good friend of mine went into the hospital for a slightly less than routine surgery to correct a very bad case of diverticulitus a digestive system disorder, which he had been battling for roughly a year ( Read more... )