My friends (if you still exist), I'm back... so to speak. I apologize for my absence; however, I have a good explanation for it. Three days after my last post (March 13th) I was involved in a pretty bad medical accident where I was injured and hospitalized. Some people may have heard about a horrible car pile up that occurred back in march, there were about 15 causalities; I was almost one of them. Well, depending on how bad an incident is, we may either deploy doctors and interns to the scene, or we await for patient arrival. In this scenario there was a team of about five doctors, a few nurses and a ton of paramedics. The new intern and I were deployed on scene to tag and treat as many patients as we could, and to send the critically wounded to the hospital. Nevertheless... I'm performing CPR on a patient with a ventilation mask... and the moron is using an defibrillator right next to me. Usually, and OF COURSE in this case, the ventilation mask has supplemental oxygen being fed into it. What will a defibrillator do? Create a spark strong enough to ignite the oxygen tank. I can barely remember any of the situation, what I do know was bits and pieces of what other people told me. I underwent rehab for six weeks after being comatose for two weeks. I underwent some heavy duty plastic surgery (got me those D cups I've always wanted) to fix the burns on my face and abdomen, which is looking better by the day. On top of my misfortune, I've still had miss Caliegh on my side, I love her to death. Nothing was better than having her at my side while I was undergoing treatment and surgery.
So I recently went back to work a few weeks ago and I've being dying to start posting again but I needed to let myself get a bit back on track before I began to post again. I missed reading blogs and talking to everyone, I hope you guys come back! So now I'm starting a new slate, and some new posts. Oh, and for those of you who were wondering - the patient receiving the oxygen inevitably did not get resuscitated, and the intern suffered burns, his patient also passed away.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
It's The Same Old Blood Rush With a New Touch
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burn,
caleigh,
cpr,
death,
defibrillator,
mascal,
plastics,
same old blood rush
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1 comment:
holy shit! lucky you're alive, and glad to have you back.
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