I got ten hours of sleep again yesterday. Why I have gone from not being able to sleep to not being able to wake up... I dunno. I do think that, right now, I like this extreme better... at least I'm more rested. Unfortunately, either extreme could be an indication of depression.

I'm sleeping so I don't have to think about not being able to quit smoking. At the same time, while I'm sleeping, I'm not smoking. And, in the same vein, I won't be smoking after I die, either.

This is ridiculous. On to something else....

Not too busy tonight. Kinda relaxing... I've got all of my work done, and it's not even 03:00 yet. Nothing really interesting has come in through the ED tonight, unlike last night. But I didn't tell you about last night... because I can't, dammit. Trust me, it was interesting, if you like that kinda thing. But I can't even tell you what kinda thing it was, so you don't know if you like it or not. I generally do like that kinda thing, though. Someday, maybe...

The area on my neck where I had the mole/wart removed has been feeling strange lately. It did at first, of course, but I thought that feeling would go away, but it hasn't. In fact, it has intensified. Kinda like an itch, but not really. Or a dull little throbbing pain... but it doesn't hurt. Just a strangeness,laying there on my neck. It doesn't bother me unless I think about it... and right now I'm thinking about it. It's irritating, like a mosquito flying around, just out of reach. OK, time for a new subject... or at least, a cigarette break.

Later on.... at home now. I went around the hospital looking for inspiration and found none. I was looking pretty hard, too. Damn.

Did have something happen that impressed me, though... we had a code red cardiac come in at exactly 06:00, and the TPA (clotbuster drug) was initiated at 06:17. Pretty damned good... 17 minutes door-to-drug. That might seem like a long time to the uninitiated, but there's an awful lotta stuff goes on during those 17 minutes. The national average is much, much longer.

Once again, I must state that I am happy to be working with such dedicated and competent people. An outsider watching this process would think that it was mass confusion, but it isn't. Everybody knows what to do and how to do it and when to do it and how to stay out of everyone else's way. The latter is pretty important, too. They way people are zipping around, you need to keep on your toes to avoid getting run into... especially when I'm driving my two-ton x-ray machine!

Anyway, I feel a whole lot better about everything now... and it looks like we're going to get some more winter-like weather coming it, so it'll be more like February here in Kansas!

February is almost over with... the year is 1/6th done... but there is one nice thing coming up in March: I will no longer have to cut'n'paste my "year-ago" entries, I'll just have to put in a link. Up until March, I would put each month all in the same file. I'm glad that I quit doing that!

O'yeah, another good thing about March... next Friday I'll be a year older! Actually, every day I'm a year older than I was a year ago on that day... OK, that's it! I've gotta go to bed now, that last statement sounded like I need to....