Keep Your Chest In The Game

I worked another long Saturday in my old emergency room since I don't intern during the weekend. I worked to the usual four o'clock. Today we had Sarah, a 14-year-old girl who was drop kicked by her 15-year-old brother. She had cyanosis (blue color of the skin due to deoxygenized hemoglobin), a very low pulse, and Dyspnea (shortness of breath). What does Cyanosis, A low pulse, and Dyspnea have in common? She has a Haemothorax. It's when your thoracic cavity fills up with blood. The thorax can generally hold a good percentage of your blood, if left untreated you will essentially bleed to death. To aid her injury we performed a tube thorascotomy; this drained the blood from the thoracic cavity. After the draining of the cavity, the blood had already begun to clot from the rupture point. The on call surgeon had stitched it and admitted her into the hospital for surveillance. Guess who is going to be grounded?
Caleigh thought I needed to get out, so we double dated for the first time today. We went to a nice local restaurant/bar for a good night of fun. We went with her friends Jennifer and Dillon, they are pretty cool, we all had a good time. The place we went to was an outdoor authentic Mexican restaurant. Our rustic cast iron table was located under an enormous willow tree which semi-secluded the four of us from the rest of the diners (except for about two other tables). They had a live band that played all night with a small little dirt dance floor for those who wanted to enthuse themselves. Let’s just say after about six shots of Juarez Silver Tequila, I was out there! Oh, and to add to the drama, GUESS who showed up? Yes, you got it, Mandy (with some guy). She scoffed at me as I drew Caleigh closer with a light kiss on the neck... I know, I'm a horrible person. She did have the balls to approach us and tell Caleigh how much of an asshole I am. Caleigh literally laughed in her face, like... literally... in her face. As she walked away, I thought I should give Mandy some advice from Cute is what we Aim For. So, I yelled after her... Keep that chest in the game! She replied with a death stare. Caleigh, Dillon, and Jennifer are not Cute fans (they don't even know who they are) but they still found the comment funny. She'll have no problem dropping her jaw to coax or do you-know-what to someone. I can speak on experience there. After our little escapade, we decided to take the bus back to my apartment, where we all are in the process of crashing. Well, they crashed, and I'm here writing in my blog. We had a good time for the first time in a while! Anyway, that bed is calling me!