I DID IT

I am not one to make new years resolutions. But this year I made the resolution to create a blog and now I have done it. I have been saying that I was going to do this for at least two years, but never got around to it. I enjoy catching up on family and friends lives through their blogs. The funny thing about blogs is that you don't know who is looking at it. I am sure there are some who have no idea that I am looking at their blogs. You sure learn a lot about people through them though. Will you learn a lot about me through mine? Maybe a little more of my day to day activities in the ER, which is pretty much my life. I always have amazing things happen and don't write them down. So now maybe this will be a place where I can keep track of the funny things, the scary things, and the miracles that I see all around me. Because of HIPPA, I will not be revealing any names or private information, just good stories, as my brother would call them.

So here goes the first. The other day I had a person who had been cut. I was pretty sure they had hit an artery. I was able to get the bleeding to quit. I irrigated it well and was surprised that it didn't start bleeding again. But as I went to put in the first suture, it was as if a water balloon had exploded all over me. It was the artery that began bleeding again. I was grateful for my reflexes that day as I immediately shut my eyes when the blood came at me. I had a student in there and told her to hold pressure on it until I returned. I walked out of the room with my eyes closed, afraid that the blood was too close to my eyes. In fact it was in my eyelashes and eyelids. It was every where. I looked like I had been shot. One of the docs I was working with asked if I had gotten any blood inside my eyes. I was so grateful that day for my reflexes and that no blood had gotten in my eyes. After I changed, I spent another 30 minutes with the Doc trying to tie off the artery. Needless to say, we had to call the ENT specialist in because the artery was not cooperating. So there is your first story. And the end of my first blog!