12 hour shift, hop on a plane, stoners, chest-surgery fundraising auctions, hangovers, beautiful cabins with lil kids who arent lil anymore, catching trout. train rides through lakes. partying it up. sleeping in garages. trying to eat my way across toronto. nother plane early in the morning, straight to a 12 hour shift with more traumas then you ( Read more... )

i made it through my 72 hour work week, and will never do that again. its just stupid. the past two days ive just kind of flitted around uselessly, unsure of what to do with myself. i hear sirens going down notre dame and feel some weird unsettled state, like a pull to go back to work or a sense of perpetual unease or something. i dont know what to ( Read more... )

oh the best way to wake up, two hours after you pass out i a drunkin stupor, is your dog going nuts and somone pounding on your front door screaming 'help me, they stabbed me, please help me!' how hum. half hour later and i got a hangover, a bloody pair of latex gloves, blood stains allover my porch and cops buzzing around. good times man, good ( Read more... )

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( my tobacco is bigger then your tobacco )

i do not live in (arguably) the coldest urban centre in canada so i can experience 41 degree tempertures. negative 41 for days on end is fine. it just makes you tough and you can sit in your heated home. but theres no escaping +41 and complaining is taking up way too much energy. i dont even mind working so much right now, since my hospital is air ( Read more... )

wow its like going to bed early is the new thing in our collective old age and its really annoying. ive been on a stint of nights at work, and ive got two more to go. its 130 and im pleasently tipsy and everyone i know is in bed, except chris, whose at work. how incredibly irritating. a nalgene full of beer and no one to share it with. cam, please ( Read more... )

a kid ive never seen before, who cant be more then three and a half, just showed up at my back door at 930 am. "can puppy come out and play?" i can hear him now in the alley trying to teach puppy to roll over. im on this huge love fest with my neighbourhood right now, but this is outta hand cute.

so theres this lady i went to nursing school with named heather, who in my incredibally full of myself opinion is probably the other smartest u of m student. when i found out she had also got the hsc adult emerg practicum, i started paying more attention to her. i never had classes with her until 4th year. i was always the first done my exams by a ( Read more... )

it's starts innocently enough. a skilled nurse, one who should knows better, lets the 'q' word slip out. its cleaverly disguised, but the guts of dear old winnipeg scope it out nonetheless. ask an obnoxious patient to please, try to be quiet, others are sleeping (430 am as it were). winnipeg springs to life, musters up the stomache cramp of the ( Read more... )

we have trauma suits for the blood baths. they're these head to toe blue blood repellant gowns, hats and knee high shoe/leg gaurds, complete with double gloves and plastic face sheilds. they are funny at first, when youre waiting for the ambulance to arrive with their red romeo sevens - full arrests. but from your perch on the cpr stool, ( Read more... )