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Ever have some aspect of your life that is always linked to a famous movie quote, book or song lyric. Over my past 28 years on this Earth my lovelife can be explained by three quotes:

"...and I trusted my gutt, and because of this I've found out that my gutt, has shit for brains!"
~ Rob Gordon (John Cusak) High Fidelity

"We are what...
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I hate being sick. At least the cold medicine has cured my insomnia, a little too well if I may say.

my nose can't stop dripping.

my throat is dry.

I haven't showered in two days.

I smell like a F.O.B.

BLAH!

Eh, life is going. Work last night was well, work. It was slow and quiet, very uneventful with nothing exciting or memorable. I spent most of the night reading Newsweek, stocking rooms and talking to the nurses I work with.

I honestly can't wait to move on, I feel as if I'm in this "dead zone" for the next four weeks. I can't really go...
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I really have few quims with my job. I love the adreneline rush. The fact that I'm in a field where I'm helping people and not stuck in a cubicle somewhere crunching numbers.

One of the shitty things I don't like about my job is that I work weekends and I'm living a crappy nocturnal life. I'm finding myself unable to sleep before 4am unless...
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So after clocking in at work today I was asked to "help out" in an extension area for the ER. This is an area that we place patients before we bring them to their room on the floor or discharge them. Upon entering this area the nurse points around the corner and suggests that I see if I could help out. Upon turning the corner...
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Wow what a weekend. After all the stress of finding a place in New Haven I get to relax for a couple of days till I go back to Georgia. So Friday night Susan drove to New Haven for the night. It was so good to see her again and catch up on life. Then the next day we met up with my cousin for...
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Well it was good to be back. After being out for five days and going batty over being so bored it was good to be at work. Yeah it was good alright.

I ended up doing CPR compressions on a 27 day old baby for an hour...

I can handle just about anything at work. Puke, Piss, Blood, Projectile vomiting, Needles... I can handle the...
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So I'm home... it's 7:30am and I'm not tired. Maybe it's because I've slept too much the past couple of days or I was so geared up for a good day at work.

Tonights patients:

~ 19yrd girl who took 60 25mg Benadryl tablets and chased them with alcohol. I got to hold her head while the nurses placed an NG tube (a tube down...
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