ICU Baby

I've been working pretty much non-stop on Intensive Care this week (eg 6pm to 10am yesterday) and lots has been going on.

Most importantly, going back to my post about organ donation, I got a wonderful letter today from the transplant team telling me who has benefitted from receiving my patient's donated organs. It was all anonymous, but along the lines of "Her liver went to a 35 year-old father of two who had such-and-such disease". It's heartening to know that at least some good can come from a tragic death.

Other things:
- Yesterday I got to ride in an ambulance transferring a patient to another hospital (they even put the siren on! Woo!)

- I learnt that one of my colleagues is pregnant (Phew - I was worried that she was putting on weight really quickly; not good if you're job is the nutrition specialist)

- I had to miss the staff Hallowe'en party last night cos I was at work, so to make up for it I went round the Intensive Care Unit putting hats & costumes on all the people in a coma *

- One patient got so confused after his operation that he was convinced he was on a film set being experimented on and refused to let anyone near him to look after him... so they called muggins here to help out. How do you negotiate with someone like that? I suggested blowdarts but they wouldn't let me...spoilsports...

- There was a very uncomfortable moment when one of the nurses told me she was "yawning" and I thought she'd said "horny"...


Anyway I'm in the middle of moving house, surrounded by boxes & I can hear ringing from somewhere...

Laters
- S -


* Of course I didn't bloody do that, but I nearly choked when someone else suggested it! I mean, the patients wouldn't know, right...?