Tomorrow is my last day of ER clinicals at OHSU. This makes me a sad, sad panda.

New icon! Replaces behemoth "attack" icon. Made while slightly inebriated.

I HAVE NO REGRETS.

Taurus April 20 - May 20
You'll wonder aloud this week if there's anything duct tape can't do, much to the horror of your fellow EMTs and the crowd that has gathered.

I love that I can come home from a long night shift

(sleepless, filled with stupid people and stupider calls, with pages ten minutes after laying down, with 500lb patients going home into back rooms through narrow doorways and an asshole fire dept that won't come help put someone back in their home, just get them out of it ( Read more... )

Despite all the crazy meth-heads and PCP freaks and cracked-out junkies, despite HIV and Hep A/B/C/D/E and SARS and MRSA and VRE, despite confused diabetics and unpredictably violent psych patients...

... this is what scares me most when I go to work.

Winner of Cutest Story of the Week Award

It seems somehow wrong that a course on how to resuscitate dead and dying children and infants is called "PALS."

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one of a lot of reason[s] why I like/love/adore you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

(Reposted here for shits 'n giggles.)


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I was going to write an actual post. I thought of at least three great topics to write actual posts on. Maybe I'll do that sometime in the future.

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