about my weekend

4 patients died. 2 kids in the ER. 1 friend passed away.

That's the basic gist.

I met a nice older gentleman on Friday during clinicals. He had dementia and was a little more confused than normal. I took the time to sit with him and keep him distracted. I found out that he had 7 kids and used to build houses in the Tulsa area. That was 40 some odd years ago. He got admitted to the hospital and going to be okay. No idea where his family was that day.

PT #1, was a gentleman who was in his 70's, still living at home on his own but home health nurses checked on him everyday. He fell sometime Friday morning in between the time he woke up and the time the home health nurses got there. He was unresponsive. He was on a backboard and had a c-collar on. He never made it off the backboard. He was never stable enough to go to CT or X-ray to check his spine in order to be cleared to be taken off the backboard. He was surrounded by family.

PT#2, was a 14 y/o who was an unrestrained passenger in a car driven by a 15 y/o who had no scratches or bruises. 15 y/o went to juvey or some version of jail. Couldn't speak English. No names were known so no family could be informed.

PT#3, was an unwanted baby. A miscarriage at about 16 weeks. The woman did not want to be pregnant. The baby is in a much better place now.

PT#4, I refuse to discuss.

Both kids have strep. Ethan was diagnosed on Thursday and Zech was diagnosed on Saturday. Zech also has a kidney/bladder infection thing going on and is REALLY dehydrated....

And I posted a blog about my friend who passed away....