A brief post from the PICU

[resonance42]

On overnight call in the PICU. During this day, a number of useful hints and life lessons have come up

Comments

[turnberryknkn]

To build on your points from my own most recent week on service:

re: #1) And especially not into a television set.

re: #3) Nor is a good idea to attempt surfing on a vehicle barreling down a lane. You will fail. And then you will impact the ground at speed.

[resonance42]

Yep. We had a skateboarding injury recently where a teenager tried to hang off a car.

Problems were:
1. Traveling at 35 mph
2. Hitting a pothole at 35 mph
3. No protective equipment.

[meepodeekin]

Jesus. Some people are Really Bad Parents. It makes one feel really really grateful for having survived childhood with only a mild Jewish guilt syndrome. I don't know how you survive dealing with this stuff day after day. My own job sometimes leads to me feeling horribly cynical, and it is so much milder than this.

[orichalcum]

Yeah. I've basically given up grapes for the indefinite future, much as I like them. We're probably a little more careless on the food products than is necessarily wise (Mac has a desperate love for granola bars, which I tear into small pieces), but we also have a son with a nearly full set of teeth who's very into chewing. Still, grapes are out.

And urgl, on the throwing of babies. I was pretty terrified just _holding_ Mac at that age!

grapes

[apintrix]

ah, I never realized before just how close I must have come to death as a child...

[tkstargazer]

Frankly, I'm starting to think that both males and females should have their tubes mandatorially tied until the age of 30, at which point they need to take an 'am I smart enough NOW to be a parent' test.