Hey all. Today, I believe is Thursday. I am not confident of this because I have been sick out of my mind the last three days. I have been in and out of the ER twice and its finally been concluded that I have some sort of intestinal infection, with all the glorious symptoms which come with intestinal infections. I noticed two things while in the ER, I am not sure they are transferrable to any of your experiences, but here goes:
1. I think doctors and nurses are trained to call patients by generic nicknames. In the last three days I was consistently referred to as, "Brother, Sweetheart, Dude, Babe, etc..." I sort of lost track.
2. On my second visit to the ER, I realized that to work in the ER you have to have to things:
a. a warped sense of humor. This makes total sense to me, because of all the trauma they see all the time, but it still makes life akward when anyone else interacts with that. Sort of like Michael Richards' character in So I Married an Axe Murderer
b. I think it is a requirement that you must look like an 80's sitcom/made for TV movie character. Never a main character, but never someone completely unfamiliar. For example one my nurses looked sort of like the mom from Family Ties, but not exactly, she would have been cast as Alex's Aunt and Merdith Baxter's sister. Also my ct scan guy looked like every "bad adult" who did things with little kids in the after school specials. I suspect he was not this way in real life. The problem with this one is that you spend your whole time in the ER trying to "place" your nurses, and when you finally do, its just not terribly satisfying.
One other note, my wife is amazing.
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God bless the blog- for it keepeth family connected and aware that those they loveth have been in ER's and such! The upside of your downside was the most blogging you've done in like a year and 2 brand new categories! Love ya, get better.
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