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Sunday, 09 June, 2002 20:21

Short night... I went to bed about 23:00 but I couldn't get to sleep, laid there for an hour and got up. Just about the time that I decided to go back to bed, the phone rang. 00:20, it was.

There was an MVA patient, a stabbing patient and a shooting patient, all came in at the same time, of course.

I was there in about fifteen minutes and had the 12-year old MVA patient on the table in another fifteen. He had been ejected from a car going about 85 MPH. One of the worst fractured spleens that I've ever seen, got his left kidney too. I don't know if they were able to save his kidney or not, but they did save his life.

The only other patient that I wound up doing was a pulmonary angiogram on a gal... the knifing and the shooting patients didn't need any CTs. So, instead of going home, I looked up some of my old buddies from Respiratory. I found them in the cafeteria, and we spent about a half-hour shooting the breeze.

I came home and went right to sleep, but I woke up at 05:00, unable to breathe through my nose. I took off the C-PAP and stayed in bed for another five hours, uncomfortably dozing off and on before I finally gave it up for a bad job.

I think that I'm getting a cold, I haven't really felt right for a coupla days, nothing specific, just more blah than normal.

Anyway, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it would be to go to sleep right now, it's about 20:30. I'll bet that I could sleep through until my alarm goes off at 06:30....

I do have a doc's appointment at 08:30 in the AM, I have to not forget that.

And... I'm still on call. But I haven't got called at all today, not at all, not at all. Kinda nice, but I was counting on making more money today, dammit.

O'yeah, I lost my temporary crown again today. Damned thing... I'll get the real one put in on Thursday, I might just not get the temporary one put back in....


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