The Glade 4.0

A Christmas we will remember forever. Lots of rain here lately but no snow and not really cold enough really for ice. Christmas eve we were leaving my brother in laws house, and my wife was coming out to get in the car and a puddle that was in the driveway earlier had frozen. I was sitting in the car and heard a loud screech and I look in the mirror and see her disappear.

I run back and there she is laying on the ground. (Unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence with her) My brother in law and I help her up and she gets into the car. As I start to back up she notices blood on her hand from where she was holding her elbow (Which is the body part she fell on. I run in and get a towel so she can hold it against her arm. I say we should go to the hospital since we were close to a good one, but she just wanted to go home.

On the way home she is worried about the blood and her cashmere sweater (Priorities right?)

We get home and she starts to change so I can look at her arm. She has a scrape and a pretty nasty cut. I start to clean the area but she has a fit because I am using an alcohol swab (I told her to go to the hospital) Since she is not letting me clean the wound very well, and it won't stop bleeding she finally agrees to go to the hospital. I put a gauze bandage on it and tape it up.

So we drive all the way back up to the part of town were in earlier since that ER is never busy and it is a really nice hospital. They look at here take xrays and drug her up. She gets 3 stitches and a splint for her fracture. (Told her earlier she probably had one).

By this time it is 1:30 in the morning on Christmas day, and the hospital gives her pain meds and an antibiotic prescription. They tell us a pharmacy near by is open so we swing by there. The pharmacist says he cannot fill the prescription because their system is down for maintenance, (So why are you open then?) and they will b back up at 9am.

We drive home and I get online to find one near us that is open so i can swing by after the system is back up. I call to double check that they are open and the pharmacist there says they can fill it now, they will just estimate the co-pay. (I didn't think of it before if the other guy had said he could fill it but couldn't run it through insurance I would have just paid for it) So I run over and get it filled.

Finally at 3:30 in the morning I get home with meds and crawl into bed.

So needless to say it will be a memorable Christmas story to tell for years to come.

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I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil

I'm glad to hear your wife will be ok . Like you said, it will be a Christmas to remember.

I worked on Christmas Eve, I thought it would be slow....but we were slammed. I lost count at ambulance #5. We had a baby born and 2 people died. One of my patients was a dad who almost sliced his thumb off putting his kid's kitchen set together..another was a 3 year old with a laceration above the eye, when his little brother grabbed the baby Jesus from the manger and clocked him in the face with it.

It can be very interesting some days, I have to work New Years Eve...I am curious how that will go.

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Thanks Kirra. We were talking about that when we were on the way to the hospital. We felt bad that people had to work that night but we were very appreciative that they were there.

Here's to you for working on Christmas eve

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I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil

This is one of those things that isn't funny, but at the same time, it's hilarious. I bet you get a lot of that in the ER.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Yeah, I laughed, I hate to admit.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Yeah, I thought the same thing. Peace on Earth, good will to -- POW!

I try to make it a point to thank people for working the holiday on Christmas Eve if I have to do anything commercial.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

We got a call at the dept store at 6:02 PM

Caller: When do you close?

Manager: We are closing right now.

Caller: Noooooo!

Manager: (pause)

Caller: are you open tomorrow maybe?

Manager Sorry, we are not.

Caller: (click)

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I hope this is not a prelude to what New Years Eve will be like. My last patient before going home was a paranoid schizophrenic who came in with Nausea and Vomiting. What a scary guy... Turns out he only wanted pain meds and after the Morphine the dr tells me to discharge him and get him out. So I go in there to tell him that I am taking his IV out and we are discharging him and he freaks out..almost hit me if I hadn't jumped back. Then he decides to come after me. Lol, thank goodness one of the PCA's is 6', 250lbs and thank you for leather restraints. I hope tomorrow is quiet.

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Time for the vitamin H!

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I've always preferred Vitamin V.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Evidently he didn't know Kirra took a level in badass.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."