clinicals

another early day of clinicals. funny, I woke up early and wanted breakfast. Told Pat that i was gonna meet up with him at the cafe. So I actually made it to the hospital early this morning and had a hearty breakfast of bacon, omelet, and home seasoned potatoes. I usually drink coffee in the morning but we only had barium wax cups. David put the coffee in there and it melted the wax right out from the outer layer as well as the inner. Wax started mixing with the coffee which wasn't very appealinng. Dave tossed it, Pat drank it, I ignored it. We did a lot of chest x-rays as usual. BIG NEWS today was that there was a shooting at our sister hospital, St. Rose Sienna Campus. Don't know how many people were hurt, last I heard was 2. They closed the ER there for investigation and brought their patients to our hospital. Pretty crazy how stuff like that happens. I hope no one else got hurt though. Today, I got to "TIP" a patient. Yeah, if you guessed Barium ENEMA study. then you are correctamundo. It wasn't as bad as people say it would be. I'm just glad the patient didnt expell the barium on my first tipping experience. Some foul odor because a little bit of her waste went into the tubing. other than that, it was an incomplete exam but I helped Dan finish it, as well as the other students.
Current Mood: tired
state of mind : thinking about life
ardieboy is...gonna take a nap.