It wasn't busy at all when I got to work, for maybe a half-hour. Then two code red traumas came in, a drunk-driver MVA. No major injuries, but the female of the two was a real whiner, and she also hated the guy that was driving the car. The cops took him away in handcuffs, of course. Mucho alcohol.
Things hadn't settled down at all when we heard that we were getting two more code reds... one of them a lifestar (helicopter) MVA from out of town, another drunk person, of course. The other one was a deputy who had been run down while doing traffic control at the scene of the first accident... by yet another drunk driver. The drunk who hit the cop was doing 55 and he didn't stop... but they had him about a half-mile away, there were four cop cars at the scene. This deputy was pretty damned lucky. He had a fractured femur and pelvis, but no major head, chest or trunk injuries; he was just getting out of surgery when I was leaving. I didn't leave until about 08:00; there was a staff meeting that I decided to stay for. It's the first one that I've attended for about two years, and the last one that I will attend as a rad tech. CT people have their own staff meetings... On the way home I stopped by the auto parts store and got brake pads for the Subaru... I'll either put them on tomorrow or Saturday. Not a job I'm looking forward to, but a necessary one nonetheless. Dammit. There was a recent case in the journalling world where a young girl (19, I think) was writing a journal about dying of cancer, and she reportedly died last week. This is really sad... but it was a scam. About four years ago, the journalling world was much smaller, and we were shook up by a similar scam, but one that was much more innocent... perpetrated my my pal in Lawrence, Groovegarden Shelly. Retrospectively, I think that it was good for the "community" at that time... it made us think a lot about what we were doing and why, and raised a lot of interesting questions about honesty and literary license. Didn't answer any of those questions, of course. I remember that many of us were verifying our identities... which I've never had a problem with, personally, but many people do. And, since we're on the subject, I have written a fiction (marked as such) called "Dying Diary" which I haven't updated since Yahoo! took over Geocities... and y'know, although it is marked a fiction, I still get emails from people thinking that it's real. Well, I take that back, I haven't for the last six months or so, the site is probably gone now. I'll have to check... maybe I'll put it back up on the nilknarf.net host and revive it... Well, I've been up 25 hours now, I think that it's time to hit the sack.