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[Lise]

Long live TE/TD, chocolate, wine and living through Lise's date life (well actually hope you meet someone and no longer date....'cept for date-nite).

Thanks, Trek! Me too! I would really like to be dating someone, not just going on a series of dates with a series of guys.

I realized that I was so attracted to photo guy because he reminded me of some good qualities of my ex... alas, perhaps I reminded him of some bad qualities of someone else! As it turns out, his "Stay in touch" really does mean "I'll never be in touch with you again"! See? Who needs a universal translator?!

[maillotpois]

Yikes! My last patient was a 23-weeker born June 22! What a puny little thing! Cystoconray enema caused expulsion of a meconium plug a good 8-10 inches long! I bet he feels better now!

My co-worker is taking home a couple of his left-behind diapers for her daughter's baby doll, but is afraid they are way too small.

I can't believe how easily the nurses handle those tiny babies- I'd be so nervous.

Nanci

How do you fit 8 - 10 inches of meconium plug into such a little creature??

[Lise]

How do you fit 8 - 10 inches of meconium plug into such a little creature??

I thought the same, but, then again, how do you fit miles of intestines into us?

How're you feeling today, MP?

[DrBee]

yeah MP - how are you feeling today? I keep thinking about you. I would imagine you're going to be itching to get on that bike soon.

Lise - is there a next date with the blind date guy?

We're having a weird day at work today. A technician was fired (during his 1 yr probationary period). He's a slow worker, but his supervisor didn't exactly do the best job of supervising him either. The supervisor is totally paranoid and hid his boat so that the guy wouldn't sabotage it. He has kept his office door locked all day and is being really twitchy. I've never met a person that is truely paranoid - until now. Luckily, he's left for the day. Aargh! I'm going home soon.

[maillotpois]

Hey thanks for askin'! I feel okay - had to go for some blood work this morning.

What is going to be weird is my now heightened sense of paranoia and sensitivity about what's going on in my body. I hope that subsides. But I started getting these bad abdominal cramps and I'm thinking - crud, I'm bleeding out or there's another clot or....!!! But then I remembered I had to take out my Nuva ring at the hospital and guess what - I'm starting my period. So they were just cramp-cramps.

I think getting the Petite Pois back from camp tomorrow (she's been gone 2 weeks) will return a sense of normalcy to things.

[DrBee]

It's probably best that she wasn't around while all of this was going on. That would've been tough on her.

[SadieKate]

What is going to be weird is my now heightened sense of paranoia and sensitivity about what's going on in my body. I hope that subsides.

Very normal. Eventually you learn to find a middle ground . . . or go cuckoo.

[Lise]

Lise - is there a next date with the blind date guy?

Yeah, fish, I don't know. He said he'd call Friday, which is today. At this moment, I do not care. I was stupid yesterday to ride, donate blood, ride, play volleyball. Started a 24 call shift last night. Thank the universe that the first page I got was 5:12 AM, so I slept for 6.5 hr. Came in, delivered the baby, saw some other ladies. I have a migraine on the right side of my head. The pain is not too bad, as they go, but the pressure and photophobia are bugging me. When the nurse turned on the spotlight for the birth, I could not stand it. I had her turn it off until I was stitching the lady up, and then just enough light to see what I was doing.

I just ate a bag of peanut M&Ms and took 3 motrin. I have Maxalt at home, but it makes me dizzy. If I don't get any more pages in the next hour or so, I'm going to go home. Take my chances. I don't live too far away. On call until 10P. Funny how unimportant a date becomes when my head hurts!

[snapdragen]

Yikes! My last patient was a 23-weeker born June 22! What a puny little thing! Cystoconray enema caused expulsion of a meconium plug a good 8-10 inches long! I bet he feels better now!
Nanci

Isn't meconium like fetal/newborn poop? OWWWWIE - poor guy.

[DrBee]

Lise - yeesh that sounds like a doosy of a headache. I hope you feel better before you have another delivery.

Why is it that men never seem to get migraines? I've never heard a man complain about a migraine. Odd.

[DrBee]

Oh yeah - Mr. Fish said that he read today that wholesale gas prices went up $0.30 today. Get gas now before prices at the pump go up even more.

[DirtDiva]

My bro gets bad migraines - vomiting, dizziness, absolute intolerance of light, the lot. He doesn't get them very often these days, but he had them quite a lot when he was a teenager.

[SadieKate]

I know plenty of men who have migraines and cause migraines.

Men also get cluster headaches.

[maillotpois]

I know plenty of men who have migraines and cause migraines.

Men also get cluster headaches.

And they have been known to cause/be part of cluster-****s.

[Lise]

And they have been known to cause/be part of cluster-****s.

(chuckling) Took me a minute to parse out what the *s might be for!

I came home and took the Maxalt, put an ice pack on my head, am feeling so much better. I got paged 6 times in the past hour...makes night call look a lot better. Just a lot of end of the day at the end of the week kind of calls.

Maxalt is such a good drug for me. Tylenol, Motrin, caffeine were not touching it. Within a half-hour of taking Maxalt, it's like someone opened a tap and drained out the pain and pressure. That side of my head/neck feels kind of numb, but not bad. No more pain. No more wanting to puke. No more light intolerance. ahhhh....good stuff.

The birth this morning had its comical aspects, in retrospect. The nurse sort of lost control of the lady's leg. She (the pt, not the RN) had an epidural. So at one point the lady's foot was resting on my back...the spotlight is piercing my brain through my right eyeball...I'm trying to pull out this slippery 9# girl while giving orders like, "Get the foot off my back! Turn off the light!" Not your typical birth talk. All was well, the baby's great, I did not get kicked in the head or ribs, and Maxalt is my friend.

Going back in to see another lady about a baby...5 more hours of call, but who cares, cuz my headache's gone! Fish, thanks for the heads up. I'll fill 'er up on my way back in. L.