Window Licking Good
First and foremost, I'm a little pissed right now. I worked nights, am on the way home and the major-ish roadway that turns into the minor-ish road that I live off if is a parking lot. Cars bumper to bumper. Its 97 degrees, the top is off, I'm in scrubs and I can see my damn turn. WTF?!? Then it gets better. I find out that there is no accident, no life-threatening emergency that has shut down traffic in order to land a helicopter.... the fucking mega-church down the road from me is giving away free gas. Every ghetto rat and trash in the area has clogged my egress from work and is on their way to MY turn, MY road, behind MY Kroger for free gas. Fucking ridiculous.
In other brilliant news the ER renovation is in full swing. Triagony has been moved to a completely new building so the "hole" has been replaced by the "back 40." It is quite a hike to the treatment area. It is even longer when you have an out of control psych patient, sick patient or any combination of not-so-good that walks in. On the upside, the triage rooms are BIG, have their own sinks, there is a room for EKGs and the screamer desk now has bullet resistant glass. The whole area is completely locked so you can't just get in. Much MUCH more secure than before. They have even upped our police presence which has been a noticeable and welcome change. (with the exception of puny girl who is only doing the university police thing because of daddy's connections. She has yet to impress me and is currently being investigated for NOT acting when the 21 year old the other day went off and she walked away). The bullet resistant glass even has those microphones like at banks so I don't even have to SMELL the patients when they come in. BONUS!
The windows do get pretty raunchy though. People are always touching and knocking on them. I had a drunk girl use it to blot her lip gloss and many many people sneeze and cough on it. (No vomit yet). I once had a drunk psych patient lick the window. I wonder if he could taste the Berry Craze Lip Smacker?
One of the other upsides to nights is breakfast. Greasy spoon diner that has an early liquor license, great food and will let us in and serve us as soon as we show up. Normal opening times doesn't apply to the ER staff! So had a nice wind-down breakfast with a cute boy and then headed home to get my sleep on before 12 hours in charge.
In other brilliant news the ER renovation is in full swing. Triagony has been moved to a completely new building so the "hole" has been replaced by the "back 40." It is quite a hike to the treatment area. It is even longer when you have an out of control psych patient, sick patient or any combination of not-so-good that walks in. On the upside, the triage rooms are BIG, have their own sinks, there is a room for EKGs and the screamer desk now has bullet resistant glass. The whole area is completely locked so you can't just get in. Much MUCH more secure than before. They have even upped our police presence which has been a noticeable and welcome change. (with the exception of puny girl who is only doing the university police thing because of daddy's connections. She has yet to impress me and is currently being investigated for NOT acting when the 21 year old the other day went off and she walked away). The bullet resistant glass even has those microphones like at banks so I don't even have to SMELL the patients when they come in. BONUS!
The windows do get pretty raunchy though. People are always touching and knocking on them. I had a drunk girl use it to blot her lip gloss and many many people sneeze and cough on it. (No vomit yet). I once had a drunk psych patient lick the window. I wonder if he could taste the Berry Craze Lip Smacker?
One of the other upsides to nights is breakfast. Greasy spoon diner that has an early liquor license, great food and will let us in and serve us as soon as we show up. Normal opening times doesn't apply to the ER staff! So had a nice wind-down breakfast with a cute boy and then headed home to get my sleep on before 12 hours in charge.
posted by jeepgirl at 10:32
3 Comments:
That nice wind down breakfast with a cute boy sounds nice.
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Wow, I really don;t know how you even have time to blog after working such long hours...Respect!
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