| You Are Scooter |
 Brainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick. You're always willing to lend a helping hand. In any big event or party, you're the one who keeps things going. "15 seconds to showtime!" |
| In 1975 (the year you were born) |
 Gerald Ford is president of the US Evacuation of US civilians from Saigon as Communist forces complete takeover of South Vietnam FBI agents capture Patty Hearst, who is indicted and convicted of bank robbery Teamster Jimmy Hoffa disappears without a trace Marines rescue the crew of the American ship the Mayaguez near Vietnam First Lady Betty Ford says in an interview that she thinks her children have tried marijuana Natalie Imbruglia, Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Enrique Iglesias, Angelina Jolie, and Tiger Woods are born Cincinnati Reds win the World Series Pittsburgh Steelers win Superbowl IX Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup Production begins on Star Wars Jaws and The Rocky Horror Picture Show are the top grossing films Soul Train premieres on television in the United States "The Way We Were" (performed by Barbara Streisand) wins the Grammy for best song Saturday Night Live and Wheel of Fortune premiere |
| Your Life Path Number is 7 |
 Your purpose in life is to find truth and meaning You are very spiritual, and you are interested in the mysteries of life. You are quite analytical and a great thinker. You have many theories and insights. A life of solitude is perfect for you. You need time to think and do things your way. In love, you are quite charming. You attract many with your confidence and wit. While you enjoy being alone, sometimes you take it to an extreme. You can become too isolated, shutting out loved ones and friends. Express yourself a little bit more, and you'll be surprised where it takes you! |
i sent the paperwork to merck pharm to have my prescription covered by them. it came in the mail today. i've got 12 months for free. thank god! i'm so glad i went out on a limb (and endured the physician's receptionist's bad attitude) and did it. i feel so relieved.
 | You scored as Denatello. You are intelligent and peaceful...maybe you should consider going into a different line of work. Even though you are friendly, you should try to fit in with others more often.
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Jeff wrote this about a patient yesterday:
"Pt very concerned that staff @ UMC were going to force him to have a rectal tube. Pt did get in touch with ex-spouse who also did not want a rectal tube."
(I swear, I can't make this stuff up.)
Would you like a rectal tube? They're handing them out for reduced price today at UMC.
There are currently some 65,000 gay and lesbian Americans serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, many of them deployed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. As they fight and die for their country, they were told this week by the nation's highest-ranking military officer, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace, that their relationships are immoral, the intolerable equivalent of adultery. These remarks, clearly out of step with American public opinion, were cheered from the usual quarters. Cultural right leader Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) issued a statement "applauding" Pace "for maintaining a personal commitment to moral principles." But it also prompted outrage from Americans who understand that this outdated “Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy does not reflect our values or enhance our security. Take action to repeal the ban here.
(see below for Eddie Izzard's take)
today was the first day of SPRING BREAK!!!! i'm going all out this year. rockin parties! sunburns from days spent laying poolside! drinking till all hours of the night! getting nearly naked for pictures on the beach! i'm hoping to get on that crazy show: social workers gone wild. but, it's ok cuz i asked the photographer to hide my identity. what do you think of my picture??
i was just upstairs going to get a bagel for breakfast and i heard the distinct sound of skin hitting something. i round the corner to see a teen age girl had fallen. an adult male and a young boy (maybe 7 or 8) were standing next to her. i assumed they were her father and brother. i start to walk past this obviously tense scene when i hear a slap and the adult yelling. i turn to see the man in the boy's face, grabbing his arms and yelling. i also see 3 or 4 people walking by this scene. heart pounding (the guy was twice my size) i go over and calmly let him know that there are more appropriate way of disciplining a child. he tells me that he's tried everything else with the kid and this was the only way. so, i repeat. he seems to calm down a little and starts to walk off, but neither of the kids follows. he waits and says: are you comming or are you going to wait with the police? (i think the kid had wondered off earlier and had been found by security.) i waited while both kids decided what to do and just watched the father, my message being that you are watched and your behavior is wrong. they left the caffeteria and i got my bagel.
i was (and am) shaken by the incident. did i do the right thing? is something (even so small) better than nothing? did i potentially cause the kids more trouble? i felt empowered by my role as a social worker (even tho i'm not practicing one today), but so disapointed that other people (clearly some doctor students and nurses) did nothing. what's the matter here?
i met a woman today who is 99 years old. she'll be 100 in august. her "kids" are all retired; she's lonley because she's outlived all her friends and most of her family (including 2 husbands); and she believes she's lived a good life. but she's not ready to go yet.
i got home and flipped on USA network cuz they usually have monk or law & order. but, no. they are playing the movie Big Fish, which is one the saddest/happiest movies there is. (and it makes me think of rene cuz her email is bigfishproductions.) at it's heart it's a love story and the story of a boy trying to understand his father. isn't that what every child wants: to understand their parents? how do children reconcile their parents (the flaws, the stories, the imperfections, the human-ness) when the parent is dying or has passed away?
here are some of my favorite quotes:
Most men, they'll tell you a story straight through. It won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.
(son's vision of his father's funeral) Everybody's there, and I mean everybody. And the strange thing is, there's not a sad face to be found, everyone's just so happy to see you.
I know better than to argue about romance with a French woman.
There comes a point when any reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he made a mistake. The truth is... I was never a reasonable man.
Church people drive too slow.
It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties.
I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive.
UMC is the only trauma hospital in tucson now, so we get traumas from all over southern arizona. if someone who is involved in a trauma comes to the hospital and, for whatever reason, they don't have identification they are assigned a "trauma name." these can be the place they came from and two letters that differentiate them from the other trauma from that location. for example: gilbert, hj; baja, hi; or iron, hj. someone just got admitted to the ICU with the name: CABBAGE, HJ. i am of the belief that there are no circumstances under which people should be named after vegetables. can you imagine being the family: yes, mr. so-and-so, your daughter, cabbage, hj, is in room such-and-such.
also, i just delivered methadone to 7E. that's the maternity floor. *sigh*
nelly is trying out this new yoga position we heard about on tv. it's kinda like upward dog, but more feline. and it has to be done in the sun. for 22.7 hours a day.
i just learned that blogger has a thing that i can send pics to my blog from my phone directly. it's the coolest thing ever! itz the mixing of my two obsessions! like red bull and vodka. or like office max and staples! or crack and schizophrenia! or mac and cheese. or anything and prozac.
and this pic is my nephew mabrouk learning how to use the mp3 player. he wanted to download "the pussycat dolls"! isn't he adorable!?
it's ironic that i was talking with lori the other day about thinking of becoming a chaplin in my next career. yesterday on 3NE there were two patients who wanted to talk about their spiritual beliefs with me. the second asked me to call the chaplin for him so he could talk more. i think more and more whatever it is we "put out there" - energy, ideas, hopes, fears - come back somehow. when i called the chaplin, she was the warmest, most welcoming person i talked to all day. her energy just pulled me in and i felt like i'd known her, even tho i've only seen her around. i hope she was able to connect with my patient and provide some comfort for him.
on a side note, i put the term "faith community" in my note regarding the first patient, as in "this patient gets a lot of support from her faith community". like, her church, but also people who are in her community who may not go to church or whatever. seemed clear to me. jeff said: what do you mean by faith? ummm ... faith?
