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December 24th, 2009

I'm Wishing You A Merry Christmas Here

I imagine I�ll be reading most of your Christmas well-wishes in July while the tire sales are going on.

I�m doing well in school. That is my only present to you. It is also the explanation as to why I haven�t read any of your journals or updated since the Diabetes Bike Ride I begged all of you money for (I actually did really well in that. I want to do the 64-mile trek next year)

Also, if I called any of you this semester asking for help in class because of your knowledge in a particular medicinal field, I probably will again because I have to retake that class. If I didn�t call you, and you do have particular knowledge in a certain medical field, it was because I don�t have your number. That is your fault! My phone number is (225)WET-BARF. Call it sometime! (after Christmas, though. I'm hanging with my family tonight and tomorrow) I'll even answer if you promise not to sell me shit.
Oh! And Schizophrenia is not multiple personality disorder, no matter what Me Myself & Irene says. Now you�ll stop looking like a jackass at parties. Or you can make other people look like jackasses. Either way, you're welcome. Merry Christmas.

I want to give one of those generic �Happy Holidays� as well, but last I checked I have two Jewish readers, one athiest, and every one else celebrates Christmas. So instead:
Happy Hannuka
Joyful Godless Day, you Sodomite
and Merry Christmas.

And here is your present.

Yes, I�m regifting. I�ll see you all this summer to report I only have a semester to go�I hope. And to read your hundreds of journals.

Posted 2 months ago by Frankfurter Comments (7)	+ 5 Funny

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NAME

Brad K.

OCCUPATION

Professional Male Nurse in training.

BIRTHDAY

April 27th, 1983

INTERESTS

Anything cool

FAVORITE MUSIC

It used to be that you could say you loved rock n' roll and everyone knew exactly what you were talking about. Now there are so many subdivisions of rock and only some of them are rock and others are sucky music. So I'll say this: I like good rock and no good music came from the 80's

FAVORITE MOVIES

The one where the guy gets the girl in the end

FAVORITE TV SHOWS

The ones with characters in situations

FAVORITE BOOKS

The classic ones

FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES

I like first person shooters. But damn it they have too many first person shooters. Come on video game industry; have some original ideas!

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ohfer

UNIVAC

Posted 4 weeks ago	+ 1 Cool [ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
FRANKFURTER LIVES! BTW, Elnea is completely right in her previous post. I had cellulitis in my leg when I was 15. I went into the hospital with a temp of 105� and nearly had to have my leg amputated to save my life.

Elnea

Axe Cop

The one that�s really messes with me recently is �cellulitis.� I think it has something to do with some commercials that were on at some point about fat women, but when I read or hear �cellulitis� I think of those women with the fat butts with all those caves and pimples on them or the women with fat legs and bumps all over them. I now know cellulitis is an inflammation of the tissues beneath the skin due to an infection, but I still think of it as a fat woman�s side effect for being fat.

LOL! If you were a woman, you would NEVER confuse cellulite (the lumpiness on one's butt and thighs) with cellulitis (a nasty infection of the tissues under the skin). When I think of cellulitis I remember this guy with orbital cellulitis who got it by picking at a zit on his eyebrow with his nasty dirty fingernail. It managed to infect the tissues around his eyebrow and pretty soon his whole eyelid swelled up all red and he looked like Rocky in that last fight in the first movie. I vaguely recall we ended up putting him in the hospital on IV antibiotics because once that shi*t gets in the orbit you run the risk of the infection getting into the eye, and when you get endophthalmitis you are totally screwed because the eye:blood barrier makes it really tough to get antibiotics into the eye.

The moral of this story is don't pick your zits, or you'll go blind.

Also, girls have lumpy butts.

ragingterror

Exhaustion

Posted 2 months ago	+ 1 Zing! [ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
Text messages? I do get them.... which may not be such a good thing for me now. Haha!

georgia

Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
The BR is treating me well. School is doing its best to not treat me well, but I'm a trooper. How about you? Are you still right down the street where I should be ashamed I haven't stopped by yet? school is trying to break you to make sure you dont break anyone else when it counts. and yep still here. thought about you the other day, did a bunch of lab coats for the PA-s people's

georgia

Posted 3 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
brad K!!! 'ello how is the big BR treating you?

BloodySparow

Carrodevida

Posted 6 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
Sorry, I forgot that houston is east, not west, of here, lol. but totally, if you are in the area let me know!

Elnea

Axe Cop

I definitely agree with you that there starts to be this idea that patients have to "suck it up" and I think that is due to two things:
1) some patients have really high pain tolerances or are able to mask their pain really well. For instance, if you do an OB/GYN rotation, you'll see some patients (like myself) who scream their heads off for anesthesia ... or even WITH anesthesia whilst pushing their babies out, and other patients who are completely silent for the entire process. When you see patients who don't ask for meds and don't make a fuss it starts making you wonder if it really hurts that much after all.

2) This syndrome amongst caregivers which is well documented where you start to think of patients as "other" than ... well... sort of human. This is something I first read about with respect to the German doctors in WWII, but subsequently have seen talked about with respect to military, police and medical personnel in modern times. It isn't that anyone has feeling of malice towards patients, but there is a us vs. them mentality that can build up insidiously over time.

As for the gender differences in pain tolerance, I suppose you've had a different experience than me. I used to do these retinal procedures involving scleral buckles and I sent most patients home with Tylenol with codiene but WITHOUT EXCEPTION the men 16-25 ended up calling or returning to the ER with complaints of pain so severe that they ended up staying in the hospital for 24-48 hours on morphine drips. Nobody else. Just the young guys. Had the same experience at Johns Hopkins and in Boston. Very odd. Maybe it's just eyeball pain the boys can't take?

*shrug*

ragingterror

Exhaustion

Posted 6 months ago	+ 1 Funny [ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
Well, the first couple of attacks probably wouldn't do shit... but the last one has a... shot... at working. C wat I did thar?

messenjah

Posted 6 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
your profile has made me hungry

Elnea

Axe Cop

Posted 6 months ago	[ Reply ] [ Quote ] [ Conversation ]
YAY! I caught up on all your comments. I'm so proud. You're so silly. hugs