My Harry Potter predictions... just in time for Wizarding Wilmington.  WOOOHOOOO.  Anyone else going tonight ( Read more... )

You get to pretend you are on CSI and swab your own cheek! I've already signed up... I will be so excited if I match.

It normally costs $52 dollars to save a life. But if you act soon, live in America and are in good health, it will be free.

Every year thousands of patients world-wide become critically ill and require a bone marrow transplant for ( Read more... )

1--Weeks on the job
2--Nights I actually got to see my hub
2--Number of patients I worked with that became donors
3--Number of patients I worked with
6--Days I worked
72.5 -Hours worked
11-Organs procured from my two patients
10-Number of patients that had organ transplants this week right here at home because of my two patients 
1--Number of patients ( Read more... )

From the journals of bizarre patientry

We had a patient in our ICU who ate rocks. (Pica is the clinical term for it, what orifice I pulled that info out of I do not know).

She was probably 55 or so and looney as a canadian coin. The screwed up party is not that she had Pica, which is WTFworthy enough, but her bizarre family went out into the back ( Read more... )

I went on my first case last night.  The patient had indicated on her driver's license that she wanted to be an organ donor and her family respected her wishes ( Read more... )

I'm here in lovely Chattanooga, Tennessee--ok, not lovely so much as cold, rainy, windy and dreary, in the hospital room.  It's funny how things happen ( Read more... )

Funny how things great and awful happen at the same time ( Read more... )

Frozen Cadbury Cream Egg, how I love thee, let me count the ways.

I love your freezer harded shell of chocolate, that does not melt on my fingers, but crunches and shatters when I cram the top of your into my mouth and bite down really hard.

I love your gooey inner white and yellow creamy cold center, that is much less oozy when chilled and cools on ( Read more... )

One of the people on my f-list introduced me to this, and I couldn't help but get started right away...  Kiva.com

What did I do? I contributed to microloan for a man in Kenya.  Microloan---loans as small as a car payment here in the western world, sometimes as much as 1500 dollars.  This particular loan is for a total of $150.  I've gotten the ball ( Read more... )

There seems to be some interest in making their Harry Potter predictions online for all to see... woohoo ( Read more... )