Bad night.

Hardly no sleep is why. I think that I drank way too much coffee Saturday night, and I paid dearly for it.

And when I got there at 19:00 it was not only busy but very confused, and I just hate that when it happens.

Finally got stuff settled down around midnight, x-ray-wise, anyway, the ED was still pretty busy, and I spent some time answering their phone because everyone else was too busy to get them.

One of my favorite phrases is, "I want for you to learn to be patient, and I want you to learn it NOW!" ; well, I was thinking about that tonight, for some reason or another, and I started wondering why it shouldn't be that we shouldn't be so patient as we get older, because, after all, we have less time left than the youngsters do, and therefore deserve instant gratification.

This should be delineated somewhere in the next national health bill. Watch for it.

Things are just so damned backwards, I wonder why we put up with it. Youth is wasted on the young. By the time we have the money and the leisure time to enjoy life, we're too damned old and feeble to enjoy life. The grass is always greener. One woman is never enough, and more than one is way too many.

Life is not fair, and my legs hurt.

We had a patient come in early this morning, having suffered a stroke. She had had damage to her speech center, and was very sincerely saying stuff that made no sense... word salad, the doctor called it.

I asked later if she actually thought that what she was saying made sense, then I said, "...but how would we ever know?" The doc said, "O yeah, she knew... I asked her!" Something that I would not have thought to do... she could hear all right, and move all right, and nod or shake her head, she just couldn't talk.

Man, the brain is really weird. Sometimes I think that's neat, and other times it just scares the shit out of me.

More tomorrow...