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I will be going on vacation this weekend to WV for the Mothman Festival, to visit family and to get the hell out of PA for a while. I was hoping to have a nice, quiet time. However, the phone was ringing off the hook yesterday as I tried to sleep... and when I got up to go to work, Dad told me that his sister (and one of my favorite people) was in an accident and was in the hospital. Come to find out that Dorothy's car somehow went of out of park and ran over her as she walked behind it. Keep in mind that her drive-way is on a fifty degree slant. To quote my cousin, Brittany, "Turns out, my Nin [her grandmother/ my aunt Dorothy] can have a thousand pound 99 Ford explorer rollover her stomach and legs [Her pants have the TIRE TRACKS on it to prove it.] and only end up with bruises, a bit of road rash and a bruised kidney". My uncle Odell witnesses his wife being run over and has a "mild" heart attack. (How the hell does one just have a mild heart attack.) Great. I'm hoping that the hospital will put them in the same room. I will visit them, of course, while I'm in the neighborhood. Geez.
Work was weird. We've been having a lot of crisis and overdose patients lately. I don't see a common thread in any of them. I have noticed that amphetamines are now showing up. I hope it isn't crystal meth. Oh, and a LOT of cardiac patients. That's scary. Speaking of scary, there are now four confirmed cases of the Enterovirus D68 here in PA. Looks like testing for those has to be done via a reference lab. Quite frankly, this bug concerns me more than Ebola. Also had a sputum specimen that was as big as the blob from the old horror movie. I was impressed. I sure hope it wasn't coughed up.
I believe it is time for some hot tea and yarn.
Work was weird. We've been having a lot of crisis and overdose patients lately. I don't see a common thread in any of them. I have noticed that amphetamines are now showing up. I hope it isn't crystal meth. Oh, and a LOT of cardiac patients. That's scary. Speaking of scary, there are now four confirmed cases of the Enterovirus D68 here in PA. Looks like testing for those has to be done via a reference lab. Quite frankly, this bug concerns me more than Ebola. Also had a sputum specimen that was as big as the blob from the old horror movie. I was impressed. I sure hope it wasn't coughed up.
I believe it is time for some hot tea and yarn.