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Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 11/8/1984
Gender: Male
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Expertise: stalking people, getting nervous, general embarassment, eating, playing with the snow formed in my freezer, ochem (i wish), cleaning my feet, lotions, licking lips suggetively
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6/3/2003
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| Hardest 4 months of my life OVER! Waking up to the "4" on my alarm click OVER! Final exam tomorrow still to come but omg I can't believe I just survived. Goodbye malignant environments! Goodbye sleep deprivation! Goodbye stagnant passionless days. Goodbye jadedness?
Hello fervor for living again? Give me that feel good feeling?
I can has a life now? Please? Who wants to play? Who wants to go snowboarding? Who wants to go to the beach? Who wants to go hiking? Who wants to go eat? Who wants to chill the fuck out? Who wants to do amazing things? Spend some time? Spend some money? Do a little dance? Make a little love? Get down tonight? I could almost cry right now.
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| but...there's things like consent and law.
Today I witnessed one of the most beautiful doctoring moments I have ever witnessed in my life.
A 25 year old female is sitting upright on a bed in the emergency room. Vacationing in Los Angeles, she was involved in a traffic accident, where she was sitting in the back of a taxi cab that slammed into the car in front. Her face caught the brunt of the impact, into the divider that separates the driver's compartment with that of the rear seat passengers'. Her face is completely swollen and tender throughout. Blood and tears run down her face. She is barely able to open her eyes. She is missing some teeth. Her breathing was somewhat labored, and her nose was so filled with clot that she could only breathe through her mouth. Intermittently, she had to clear the blood from her mouth with vacuum suction by herself.
You can tell that she was probably very pretty. Her hair was done quite nicely. But she was quite disfigured. She cried not only from the physical pain but from thinking what she looked like on the outside as well. She murmured "will I look normal again?" We told her that the swelling will go down and we are having the facial reconstruction team evaluate her. It'll take some time and effort but it can happen.
Throughout the time we are speaking, she continues to suction blood out of her mouth.
We wheel her into the CT scan room. She took some time to transfer to the scanner bed. We told her to lie down. She went about 30 degrres. Then sat back up. She points to her face and motions what was deciphered as "pressure." She tries again. To no avail. The doctor calls for fentanyl, a strong pain medication. We tell her that it is really important for us to get this scan to evaluate her injuries. She understands. She points to her face again. The doctor offers a hand in comfort. Suction. She tries lying down again, finally success on 2 pillows. But she motions for the suction. It is hard to breathe.
"Can I have a lead coat please?" my chief resident asks the radiology tech.
He dons the lead coat. It covers his chest and abdomen.
Meanwhile the rest of the team, myself included, runs behind the bunker that is the radiation proof radiology technician room. It has some sort of reflective window that we can see out of but radiation is unable to penetrate in.
The chief resident stands directly next to the scanner. He suctions the patient's mouth every now and then to clear the blood, while she is going through the CT scanner. He offers her words of comfort as well. The ominous yellow and black circular radiation symbol flashes prominently on multiple screens. The chief's head and thyroid is not protected. The rays are bouncing around the entire CT suite. All this witnessed from the safety of the radiation tech's control room.
I call over the premed student. I tell him that this is the greatest moment of doctoring I have ever witnessed.
Minutes pass by and the scan is finally finished. Pneumocephaly (air in places in the skull where it shouldn't be), multiple facial fractures, blown orbit, numerous entrapped foreign bodies, some dangerously close to her eyes. And of course extreme swelling and bleeding in her sinuses.
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The chief did not have to be by the scanner. Normal protocol NEVER has any medical personnel remotely near all that radiation. He could have handed the suction off to the patient and have her self suction, like she was doing all along in the ER. He didn't have to subject himself to that. To put the scan in perspective, 1 CT scan exposes the human body to as much radiation as 1000 Chest X-rays. To put the man in perspective, he is the one that makes comments like "What did you learn in your doctoring session yesterday? Yeah? Ok now when you work here, you should just forget all about that."
After the incident, I told him what I felt. That I thought it was a very powerful moment. He responds "You going to cry now?"
I left telling him, "you want people to believe that you are an asshole, but I know you really care. It shows." I am inspired.
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| 2000 Honda Odyssey EX Price when New: $26500.
9 Years and 120,000 miles later: Current Kelly Blue Book Value: $4000.
1 Original Equipment Mfg side view mirror >$500. For one. Mirror.
Does this make any sense?
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| How things have changed!
December 08
Punta Cana(da), Dominican Republic - Went!
Mammoth Mountain, CA - Went!
Las Vegas, NV - Went!
February 09
Mammoth Mountain, CA - booked!
June 09
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii - TURTLE BAY RESORT! - BOOKED AND BOOKED
If anyone wants to go to Mammoth or Hawaii, please let me know
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| is incredulously boring and mundane right now. Who wants to go on an exciting trip?
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