ER Madness

Well the suburban idiots are out in force. Our ER was full of patients needing prescription refills, narcotic party drugs, sleeping off their alcohol binges, and yes wanting their mosquito bites looked at for west nile virus. All this while whining about the wait while we care for the truly sick and injured. Obviously they haven't learned if you piss off the health care worker you wait even longer since any motivation to help move them along dissapates proportionately to the amount of whining they do! The day before I retire I will say to every patient what I have been wanting to for the last 35 years. I really wanted to tell the mosquito woman that if it was west nile the bites would have left the initals W and N. If it wasn't for the people this would be a dream job.

Feels like a rain forest

Today I may have to build an ark! It has been raining since 6am and some of the downpours have been pretty intense, some roads are flooded and we are supposed to get worse storms tonight The sky gets black and then it just cuts loose, Very little thunder and lightening though. I love to watch it!

And the band played on

Our new three times larger ER should open in about 8 weeks and our volume of patients is up 35 percent over the last 2 years and no increase in staff. Every one put on pedometers last weekend and in 12 hours we each averaged 10 miles. Administrators "don't see the need" for more staff so they were invited by the staff to work a 12 hour shift with a nurse but of course declined. Three nurses have had 8 week leaves to repair their torn knee joints. The staff is getting agitated and that's good

My favorite Florida places

these are some of my favorite places. The top 2 are Anna Maria island The pier has a restarant that used to be called Fast Eddies. I took the kids there all the time the bottom picture is manatee beach a wonderful place!

I love summer

windows are open and birds are singing. I love summer. The days have been eighty degrees and sunny and the nights are in the fifties, this is perfect weather for me. A pool would be nice but where I live there is public acess to a beach something I have never taken advantage of before now. I always had access to a pool and used that. As I was driving by the lake I saw the new public area they had fixed up and it looks great I will definetly try it this summer as soon as the lake warms up!