The new year

Ok, I slacked off on my blog...Facebook has taken over. Sorry. This new year has already brought some laughs...a 90 year old woman with a gi bleed. The doctor says I need to drop an ng..so I'm trying to explain this to the patient who is of course hard of hearing and I say" I need to put a tube in your nose to go down to your stomach and see if there is any blood in there". She says... "oh, up my nose with a rubber hose, I get it". I never laughed so much, all this from a poor little lady who I thought might not make it. She did tolerate the procedure very well, and even thanked me.
Most of my new year at work was spent in the telemetry monitor room where we watch all the telemetry for the 3 tele units in the hospital. It gives you another perspective on that position. It's not easy to watch all the screens and see if something is different from earlier in the day. It's a different kind of stress.
Here's hoping that healthcare gets better in 2010.