A more interesting night...
Too damned interesting, in fact.
I got up early to go over to get Andy's computer working, it wound up being pretty simple... he had a restore disk, which has WIN98 on it, so things went pretty well, and I left before it was done, assuming that it went OK.
Kinda busy at first, as usual, but it settled down for a while. After the other tech left, it was steady... the, a little after midnight, we got a report that there were three MVA victims coming our way, two code reds and a code blue... no ETA, they were still in the extrication process.
We finally wound up only getting one... the very drunk driver of the vehicle which had been going the wrong way on the interstate.
Well, we stabalized him and shipped him up to ICU... and I heard the rest of the story later.
And this is second-hand information... or maybe third.
What was said was that the guy was obviously too drunk to drive, and his wife tried to get the keys from him. He then whacked her around a little and threw her in the vehicle and took off the wrong way onto the highway... up the off ramp. His wife was yelling at him (she said) but he kept accellerating until he hit the other vehicle.
The other driver was killed, and the drunk guy's wife suffered a fractured shoulder... she was admitted to the other hospital... the information came from the surgeon who saw her over there, then came over to treat her husband in our ICU.
Things slowed down after that... nothing interesting for a while. Then, a little after 05:00, the fire alarms went off. I was in the reading room, doing research on the patients that I needed to do in the ICU.
Well, it's not unusual for the alarms to go off around 05:00... they frequently test the emergency generators about then, and that often sets them off.
So I loaded up the portable xray machine with films and headed up to the ICU... but I smelled something funny in the hallway by the ED. When I opened up the fire door, I saw what I thought was smoke... and I suddenly got interested in what was going on.
There was a crowd of police/security/nurses gathered by the ambulance entrance, and one guy, looked to be around 35 or so, standing by himself to one side. And there was a probably ten-year-old red Ford 4WD vehicle that had smashed into the pedestrian entrance by the ambulance bay. The area was flooded, the sprinkler system had been set off.
Normally, there is a security guy at the desk about ten feet from the door, but they leave at 05:00, so the first guy on the scene was a male nurse. The driver of the truck jumped out and told the nurse that he needed an enema, he had something in his asshole, and he needed an enema really soon!
There was a city cop that had seen this guy driving at a high rate of speed, and the cop made a U-turn to follow him... and by the time that he made the turn, the guy was out of sight. As he was passing the hospital looking for the guy, he saw the taillights inside the building....
Well, this totally disrupted the hospital routine, as you may imagine. My schedule was an hour behind, just from standing around gawking.
The guy driving the truck had a fairly long history of anal fixation, but he'd never quite gone this far before... he obviously had a few more problems, too.
More tomorrow...