zonereyrie and I got engaged this weekend. Whee!

I randomly read the Boston Globe obituaries, and I just learned that one of my patients passed away. In the emergency department I only have contact with patients for a few hours at a time, and so it is a big deal with patients get under my skin like this one did.

( the tale )

( work frustration )

( another work braindump )

There are times when I wish I were a religious person so that I could take perverse pleasure in knowing someone was going to rot in hell.

I know that's an awful thing to say. I wish I had a better way to cope with the injustice in the world.

( this is what I'm talking about - TMI for the faint of heart )

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/09/22/reiki_banned_from_roman_catholic_hospitals_as_neither_science_nor_medicine/Read more... )

My hands smell like blood.

Hightlight of my night: I had an 8 month old patient who fell off a bed at home and bonked his head. A head CT scan was done just in case because he may have sustained a concussion...and incidentally he had a huge brain tumor nearly filling one of his ventricles ( Read more... )

There's nothing better than oreos at three in the morning.

My good friend Colin is staying with me for a few days so he can interview for jobs in the vicinity, and today happens to be his birthday. I was overjoyed to have a houseguest I could cook for, since Colin will eat literally anything that's placed in front of him (and cooking for just one tends to be depressing).

( yummy goodness. )