Nilknarf Journal

Sunday, 05 July, 1998 08:05

It was a long night, fraught with terror.

Well, maybe terror isn't the right word. Tension. Waiting for the horror that was to come.

That luckily, never came.

There were two multiple-fatality accidents in the Topeka area last night; the first one was up by one of the casinos, reportedly with two people going to the other hospital, two flown to KC and four DRT (dead right there). The second was in-town, with the other place getting the bulk of the patients (seven, is what I heard) and we got one... the least-injured of the bunch. There were either two or three people killed in that one.

We dodged the bullet. And I'm happy about that, along with a lot of other people. As I mentioned last night, our ICU is still full, we have no place to put critical patients and no nurses to take care of them. Not that we couldn't, but it would be a strain on the facility.

I got up at 17:30 last night, getting about six hours of sleep. Went in at 18:30 and pretty much stayed busy all night long. I'm not used to 12-hour days any more, those two hours *do* make a difference!

So I'm draggin' again. Off for the next two nights, but I think that I'll keep up the sleep-days-be-awake-nights schedule... two days isn't enough to do a turn-around and back.

Karen had all of her kids and her ex-husband over last night for a picnic and fireworks and she said that they had a lot of fun, but that it was too damned hot. They got done about 23:00. Then everyone but Lacee left. Karen just came down and we talked for a while... I don't see nearly enough of her lately...

So I'm gonna go upstairs and drink a cuppa and read the paper with Karen. More tomorrow, with a theme for a change... that being... how can I be happy, being a cynic and an atheist and a realist? The answers to these questions and more...