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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Allium Blooms

Taking over from the tulips, the allium in my front yard are starting to bloom.
Some of the plants are 3 feet tall!





Some begonias.




I used coco hull mulch on this area. It smells so good! Like hot chocolate.


My little water garden. I planted 2 water plants on Sat.
They are already sending up little shoots.

Dust Bath

It was wet and rainy today, so the girls decided to have a nice, long, relaxing dust bath.









Lavender started to lay again! She layed her first egg, in months, on Memorial Day. Her eggs are the little green ones. It's so nice to have green eggs again!

Potato Experiment

The great potato experiment had a little setback. The garbage can container fell over during a storm, so I moved the potatoes and dirt to a different container. Nothing's sprouted from that box though.....






This last box needs to have more dirt piled up on the shoots ASAP! Adding that to my to do list. Don't they look nice, though?




Raspberries - looking good!



Gooseberry bush and onions.

Garden Update

My square foot garden is growing!





Sad little tomato plants :(
Melons
Squash

More melons
More melons


More melons :)

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Scrub Strut

I love
Strutting in scrubs
Ceil blue
Head bouffant
Mask round my neck
Models kill the cat walk
I rock the OR.

Rockin' Boobies

I totally rocked the Mamms on Monday.
Perfect pictures, even with difficult patients. (oooo, I can't lift my arm, ow ow ow)
The processor ate two of my MLO's, but other than that everything was great!

I've realized that I just have to suck it up and use more compression than I was previously comfortable with. Every job has it's little tricks. Every machine is different. Every patient is different.
But I think I've finally beaten the sucky machine!

Too Slow

I ran a 5k on Saturday.
I thought I was going to die.
My mom came in at 28:14min.
I did 34:07min.
My mom is 58 years old.
She got 2nd place in her age group.
I'm 25.
I didn't win anything.



But I finished!

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Ass Wipe

Mentally handicapped patient to Diabetty:
MH: Are you gonna do a ass wipe of my 'ed?
Diabetty: No, we're going to do an x-ray of your chest.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Watching You

The Manager wants everyone to take a 20 min. walk outside.
So we go outside.
After skipping around the cement urban sprawl on Friday, I had a lovely pink sunburn.

Drunk guy with his head swaddled in gauze, like a mummy, talking to Diabetty tech.

DG: You better do a good job.
Diabetty: Oh, we always take good x-rays!
DG: Well, I know where you work, so you better do a good job.
Diabetty: You know where we work? Yeah, I guess you do.
DG: Yeah, I know where you work, because I live a block away. Sometimes I watch you guys.
Diabetty: ................um......?

I will NOT be taking a stroll outside/around the hospital anymore!
He might be watching.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

First PM

It's Midnight.
I just got back from working my first PM.

Except for the 600 lb. man, all the pts were walkie/talkies.

Very easy.

The hardest part was making small talk for 8 hours with the tech I'm shadowing.

The night:
One 600lb. vomiting man 2v. abd.
One girl banged her finger hand.
One low back pain man Lumbar spine.
One post seizure 2v. chest woman.
One explosive diarrhea 89 y/o woman 2v. abd.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Tu Lippy

Tulip varieties from my garden.






Boxed Up

Pictures of my
Square Foot Garden!

Peas-Golden Sweet, Tall Telephone, Sugar Snap, Lincoln
Radishes: Zlata,Helios, Easter Egg II, Red Meat
Carrots: White Satin, Nantaise
Beets:Touchstone Gold, Chioggia
Cabbage, Broccoli, Kale, Swiss Chard, Cauliflower, Onions, Basil, Sage





Blueberry and Lingon Berry bed.





Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Bossy Man

A surgeon yelled at me in front of two students.
Thanks man.
Of course, he was yelling at everyone.....so I didn't feel too bad.

Funny how he can tell me how to do my job, but I can't tell him how to do his.