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An Earful
I’ve had this annoying little head cold for the past five or six days, but on Friday morning I began having sharp intermittent left ear pain which became more or less constant and severe by Sunday...
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Perf
Judging from the outer ear canal crust this morning, I gather the infection and the pressure perforated my eardrum overnight. Frankly, I don’t know when I’ve felt so lousy. No post today, obviously,...
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No Snark Here
Up again at 0430, ear throbbing, after a restless night of fever and confused dreams. A comfortable cup of strong coffee, some pain meds, a dose of antibiotics, and one can begin to size up the world....
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Those Crockpot Blues
Today I am not going to delve into any heavy-heavy nursing issues, or talk about cholera (though you may see an update later). There is only so much this nurse can give, and my brain is tired. Instead,...
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Seeing the Back End of 2010
You might have noticed I was a little scarce after the holidays. Because I fell. Thrice. As in three times, all slipping on ice. After the third time, the husband started holding me — annoyingly — by...
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Good News from Kansas after a Spectacularly Awful Day
Your humble charge nurse had an awesomely bad day, in a week of similarly nasty days, so crappy in fact that I’m too tired and fed up even for my usual upper-management-idiocy snarkiness. The only...
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Pee-new-moe-knee-a
That’s right. Bilateral even. I was having this funky back pain radiating around to my chest for a couple of weeks and a really strange shortness of breath that left me inexplicably gasping, so I went...
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In Which I Swear, Repeatedly, or, TorontoEmerg Gets Bullied
I write this blog for a number of reasons: my own amusement, to educate, to share various random thoughts, to tell stories, to stimulate discussion on topics important to nursing, to provoke thought...
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Asking for Drugs
In the Emergency Department, part of a nurse’s job in discharging patients is to figure out if they are good to go home, because in part it’s good nursing practice, but mostly you don’t want to have...
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Nursing Week Ain’t What It Used to Be
My Nurses Week joy was shattered last night when the son of a patient reamed me out for discussing the patient’s condition and treatment plan — wait for it — with the patient. He thought his father,...
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