And day three was pretty fun too. But it was busy busy busy! I spent all day again at the console mostly. I'm getting comfortable there, I think, and maybe getting a little faster at it too. We did lose a patient today, though. Lost as in, "He's probably just wandering around somewhere in the hospital". It was an 80-year-old gentleman whose son had brought him in and stayed with him. He was getting several tests... a bone scan first, which is a two-part deal, and a CT scan of his abdomen, which is a kinda two-part deal. In-between times, his son sat in the lobby and the old fellow wandered around. When we went to get him for the CT drink, he was nowhere to be found. People were searching for almost two hours, and the operators were paging him on the overhead system. People were wondering what to tell his son, who was apparently pretty unconcerned. The son couldn't describe the clothes that he was wearing, or give anything other than a very general description of him. He was finally found, waiting to see a radiation oncologist that had treated him several years ago, he just wanted to say "hi" to him. Forgot about the other obligations that he had and just sat and waited until the doc showed up... which he never did, being off for the afternoon... apparently he couldn't hear the overhead speakers. Anyways, it was a fun day, but I was ready to come home when it was over. And I was on call last night, but I didn't get called at all, which was nice. It thunderstormed most of the night, and I didn't sleep very good, I was sleepy all day today. The thunderstorms were "training" which means that they were forming in the same place and tracking in the same direction... all night long. In fact, it started yesterday early afternoon, and only quit late this morning. Some places to the north of here got up to ten inches of rain in the last 24 hours... we were on the southern fringe of the train, I guess, and we got maybe a couple-three inches. Typically, we will get rain up to and including the forth of July, then it will quit. As in, No More Rain for a month or more. 1980, it was... no rain for almost two months, and temps over 100 for 50 out of 60 days. An extreme example, and one that I would not like to see again. Last year came pretty close, though. Anyway, I got home and made some beanie weenies. Karen is doing the weight-watcher thing again, so I'm left to fend for myself. About the time I get done, I get a call from the hospital. They can't get ahold of my coworker Nancy, who's on call. It seems that the 231- exchange, which is Verizon, is not working, and Nancy has a Verizon pager too. Not knowing what to do with the two patients in ER that needed CT scans, they called me. So I went in and did the first one, and as I was finishing up, Nancy walks in. She'd forgotten to document a patient reaction, and thought that she'd better do that before she went home... she lives out of town. She was surprised to see me, and even more surprised to see that I had a patient. She immediately pulled her pager out and checked it before I got a chance to tell her the story... she'd been out doing errands. utterly dependant on her pager. I've never heard of a pager company doing this before, in all of the years that I've carried pagers. Anyway, she sent me on home. I got paid time-and-a-half for one and a half hours to do one patient. On the way home, I put half of that in the gas tank of Karen's car... O'yeah, gas is down to $1.45 now! Speaking of vehicles... the brakes are getting really bad on the toyota truck, I think that'll be my project this weekend, if they last that long. Tomorrow.. the first day of summer? Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life... or was that tomorrow? Ahhhh... it'll all work out. So... I'm worn out, and I'm going to bed earlier tonight.