Vince (from below) is coming around! He’s following commands, opening his eyes, and we’ll be working on getting that breathing tube out and getting him off of the vent – which shouldn’t be a problem at all. yay.
After that, it will just be a matter of whether he makes a lot of sense when he’s able to talk (without the breathing tube in his throat). But it’s all great news!
In my 24 yrs of saving lives, I have never experienced the horror of coming into work and knowing the new “trauma that just came in last nite.” Until today.
Looking over the ICU sheets to see if the unit I was working in had changed at all… same vents? same number of patients… my eye caught a very familiar name to me. A not very common name. A name that I knew very well. Oh dear. My stomach lurched in my throat.
I asked John, the therapist that had the ER/Trauma room last nite about that patient. “What happened?”
“Motorcylce crash, no helmet”
“How old?”
“I think about 58… he has some sort of cardiac history too…”
“oh shit. Vince is 58. He had a heart attack a couple of years ago.”
I felt kind of shakey as I went down to the unit… went to the room where this new trauma was, and sure as shit, it was Vince. On a vent, a bolt in his head (to measure the pressure in his brain)… fahck! I talked to his nurse for a little bit to get his basic status. damn.
Walked back over to our area to wait for report from the nite shift, and called hubby. Didn’t care if I woke him up. He needed to know that one of his best friends since they were in grade school had just crashed his bike and was now unconcious, with a head injury, in the ICU where I was working.
Bottom line, he may or may not need surgery to relieve the pressure in his brain. Head stuff is always a waiting game. Very discouraging to family members because you can’t give them a time frame. You can’t predict when the bleeding may stop, or if it will rebleed. Can’t predict whether the swelling will go down, or how long it will take.
I switched with Jim to work on the other side of the unit. Didn’t think that I could be totally objective…
Here we all are a month ago. Damn.
Not much else to say.
While hubby is out and about at the HD Rally (no, I had to save lives), I just upgraded to CS3. I guess I always feel like I’m missing something if I don’t, ya know?
One thing that I’m never quite sure about, is whether to delete the previous version after I install the upgrade. Do you? I suppose I could always ask directly from the source…
Anybody doing anything exciting for the weekend? Sure doesn’t feel like Labor Day for goodness sake! blah. I’ll be hangin’ out, working here, while hubby gallivants about the town. s’ok, I don’t mind. He’s been looking forward to the Rally thing, and for the nice weather we’re finally having.
Updates on the remodel? Check out our “Lodge Cabin Hallway” – our little piece of “upnorth” Wisconsin. I didn’t particularly like it when contractor was putting it all up, but it’s not bad. Hubby is ecstatic, so that’s ok then.
Speaking of – he’s home (already?). So I’m outta here. Have a great weekend everyone!
I’ve been going back and forth with a client about getting the correct butt drawing on her web site. She, and her business, were just on The Big Idea with Danny Deutsch and the damn butt drawing was the wrong one. Good grief. But it’s ok now – just fixed it – again.
Ohh yaaaaah. So what’s up? I know that I haven’t posted any recent photos of the kitchen etc., but I think I’m at the stage where I probably won’t until I fix it up, ya know?
ack, don’t feel like talking anymore. I’m pretty hyped up now, so need to take advantage of the adrenaline surge and do some more work, k?
toodleooooooo
Here we are, another week. I’m warming up to begin my day o’ work. I need to find a better pace to work at. The problem now is getting caught up on client work and get my own household in order.
Yup, the kitchen is very near completion, at least from the construction part of it all. Now comes the fun part… no, seriously. It is ready to be put back together. Fun, yes, but when the heck am I supposed to fit it in? Hubby is bugging me to get going – I want to get going on it, but I really really need to separate myself from it long enough to work, dagnabbit.
Did I tell you that the kitchen is finally painted? And that I’m not totally thrilled with the outcome? Oh well, it could have been worse, but I can live with it.
ANYway, just wanted to wish y’all a happy new week, and I’ll talk to you later.
Ok, so this post has nothing to do with poop, it’s just how I feel.
I’ve made 2 commitments to myself for today. I must work on worky stuff, and I MUST decide on my paint colors. ya ya, I know, choose one already! Wanna see the kitchen backsplash? Turned out better than I thought since we took the leftover 5″ kitchen tiles and added a little strip of new tiles. But see the color variation? I’m sort of trying to go with a wall color that picks up the gray-ish parts – contrasty to the warmer, “yellow-ness” of the room… still like the sage-y green colors. Ah well, guess I should get back out there and wave my color chips around.
Like I said… Poopie.
xoxo
