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    Who organizes a yearly Oct/Nov NICU knit-a-thon on her blog to motivate us all.
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    Who makes suggestions, appreciates my efforts, and who said when seeing the turkey butt hat for the first time "You are so perverse. Those poor babies don't know what they've gotten in to." But he laughed while he said it so I think it was a compliment.
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July 08, 2009

Ugh. Out of Control Families

One of my least favorite things about working in the hospital is seeing some of the greedy/grabby/backwoods/ignorant families.  You know the ones, the ones where security has to come up and at least have a "presence" to keep them under control, the ones who are already planning the funeral and squabbling over who gets what even before the patient is given a terminal diagnosis, the ones who piss off and appall everyone in the waiting room with them.

You know what I hate even more? When it's MY family. Ugh.  Thankfully, my brothers and sister, and all the people on my mom's side of the family have at least a little class.  The family on my dad's side?  Not so much.  Do I care if they read this?  Not so much.

The only two good things about it all is that our Aunt is going to survive the stroke and is getting better with the excellent care she's receiving from the nurses AND that she's at the other hospital in town so that it's not my friends and co-workers who have to deal with these cretins.

Hmmmm...And they wonder why I haven't gone out of my way to see them for the last 20 years.  Yeah, such a puzzle.

July 05, 2009

LOVE LOVE LOVE these directions:

To our wonderful friends' Becky and David's house on the Arkansas/Missouri state line..."and then turn onto the unnamed/unmarked road and drive several miles through the woods...turn right at the zebras...."

Their property backs up to the housing pens for a drive-thru zoo....

July 04, 2009

Happy 4th of July!

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July 03, 2009

I Have the "RIGHT" to Not Pay Back My Debts? Are ya effin' kiddin' me?

Money344

On the way home from the grocery I heard a commercial from one of those places that will supposedly contact your credit card companies and arrange for a lump smaller monthly payment plan.  In the commercial they actually had the gall to say "You have the right to negotiate your debts down to pennies on the dollar and we can help you." 

I have the RIGHT to cheat my creditors?  

NO!

I have the RIGHT to assemble peacefully. I have the RIGHT to choose my religion. I have the RIGHT to due process.  I don't have the right to lie about my financial solvency and enjoy goods and services without payment that have been provided to me on good faith.

We live in such a f***ed up world.

July 02, 2009

Students: There's a New Class in Town

Had my first student in tow from this new class last night. We ran our butts off but it was a good night.  I hope. She did well.  We had treatments on the floor plus assess/treat and we were NICU's backup.  Holy cow!  The first four hours went by like lightening because we were so busy.

We had just started a few of the tx's when a code was called.  You know, you know you're not new anymore when a code makes you cringe instead of get excited.  But it was a great opportunity for the couple of students.  They got to see their first code, they got to bag, they got to see a vent being set up and the pt transferred into a unit...so it's all good.

Then we went back to tx's.  Had a really nasty (hateful) man.  Again, a good opportunity.  Her eyes got pretty big. When we left the room I said "Look, here's my philosophy on that.  Don't let anyone make you be someone you're not just because they're a jerk."  I don't. Most of the time. I blow off steam here and I do make fun of jerks but overall I'm still nice to them and other hateful people because I won't let them make me have a bad day or be an unhappy person. That's giving too much of yourself away.

The end of the story is that I continued to be nice to him throughout the night, extra nice even, and by the end of the night, on the last treatment, he held my hand and thanked me for everything I'd done for him last night.  Not all of them do that but it's worth it to get through to the one guy who let the pain and fear and hassle of being in the hospital make him be someone he obviously wasn't normally. 

It's okay to take a little shit once in a while. You just don't let it change who you are or how much you love the job.

After we got the tx's cleaned up, we went down and did some tx's in the NICU to help Renae and Mike get caught up. They were in the weeds but we weren't complaining to go help. It's always exciting for students to get to go down there so early. Normally they don't get even a peek until the third semester. She got to wander amongst the little littles and help me do tx's on her 6th(?) clinical day. Woohoo!

Oh, and a funny for Sooner Fan.  I cursed at one point about...who knows.  Yeah, I know. I'm workin' on it. Anyway, I immediately apologized and said I hoped I didn't offend her. She said "Oh God, no. I don't care at all."  I said "Good, because if you go tattle to SoonerFan all he's going to do is roll his eyes and shake his head as soon as he hears my name and say "That's just Glenna.""  :-)

Love me as I am or get the hell out of my face. That's my other philosophy.

July 01, 2009

Kathy Griffin Does Paris Hilton

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On Kathy Griffin's Life on the D-List show the other night she went shopping with Paris Hilton. It all came about because Kathy decided she needed to get in with young Hollywood and broaden her demographic so she arranged for a little publicity jaunt with Paris Hilton, shopping.

The dress Kathys wearing in the pic is one of Paris's sent over from Paris's office at Kathy's request. Odd, but okay.

The funny part of the show was how dumb Paris is. Seriously, I have a serious grudge against this girl and I know it.  It's becuase she's three of the things I hate the most: 1) She's stupid.   2) She's so stupid she doesn't know she's stupid.  3) She thinks she can bullshit her way through life and that we buy her bullshit.  (Hmmmm...suddenly reminds me of someone I know in real life who fits those three categories.  Hmmmm...my venom is suddenly making sense to me.)

For example, back in Paris's just post-jail days she went on Larry King and talked about how she NEVER drinks more than one drink, has NEVER done drugs of any kind, is all about making a difference in the world, etc. She also talked about how smart she is, what a business woman she is, and how hard she works every day.

Cough. Cough.  Whatever, Paris. On this blog alone you can see pics of Paris smoking pot, drinking straight from the bottle, stumbling around drunk, etc.  Sure, Paris. Whatever you say we'll believe because everyone on the planet is as dumb as you are.

So anyway, she and Kathy hook up on the street in front of a store in the middle of a ton of paparazzi.  Paris says "I have an outfit just like that."  Kathy replies "It IS yours."  Paris looks confused.  Kathy raises the skirt up to her waist, flashing the paps her panties that she bought just for this episode.  Paris is so friggin' stupid she doesn't even realize Kathy's totally mocking her and all the crotch shots in the celeb mags.  Doesn't get it. The most she can manage is to look slightly confused, which, to be honest is her most frequent expression during her time with Kathy.

They shop. They shop to the tune of over $12,000 EACH and while Kathy reacts to that figure, Paris, again, looks slightly confused and surprised by Kathy reacting to the bill.  I mean, hey, what's twelve grand for an hour's worth of casual shopping, right?

Paris "teaches" Kathy how to stand and pose for the cameras. Apparently you have to stick your hip and arm out at humanly unnatural positions, throw your shoulders back, and pout like a $2.00 whore.  Okay. Got it.

 And then, my FAVORITE part of the episode.  Paris tells Kathy they need to do a makeup check before going back outside in front of the paps.  They both primp in the mirror and Paris tells Kathy to purse her mouth more.  Kathy says "Oh yeah. I get it. Like we're going to give blow jobs."  Paris replies (I swear to God) with a straight face "My mother raised me that only ugly girls go down on their knees to do something nasty like that."

I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. Had I been at work they would have had to teabag me, I mean, bag me.  I now know what the phrase "I about died laughing" means.  I had to back up the satellite on that one and play it three or four times before going on with the episode.  Holy shit, that was hilarious! 

AND STILL, Paris carried on with a straight face.  Personally, I don't know how Kathy could continue to even stand there. I would have been on the floor pounding my fists in laughter and calling her a silly liar to her face.

Excuse me but even though I've only seen a few seconds of that Paris Hilton sex tape with Rick Solomen, those few seconds that were WIDELY available on the internet were of Paris.......wait a minute.  Maybe Rick had a popsicle in his pocket. Yeah. Yeah. That must have been it.  Silly me. I should have given her the benefit of the doubt. 

I should also be nicer to retarded people.