Family night at the fireworks

After work was over I met Nick, Dave, Kari, and Mindy at the Lookouts for a baseball game and fireworks. I made it in the 7th inning because one of my patients blew a hole in his femoral artery (he already had a hole there from a procedure that day, it just reopened) and I had to hold pressure forever to get it stopped. Then when I got to downtown there was NOWHERE to park. I drove around for probably 10 minutes looking for a spot and everybody else along with me. I was about to call and tell them I was going home because I couldn't find a spot when I got one.
Kari called some other family members from the game to say hello and tell them we were having fun without them. :-)

So, the Lookouts lost, as usual, but there was some excitement in the 9th when they struck out the other team with bases loaded. The batter even had a temper tantrum and broke his bat on purpose. Afterwards they let everybody out on the field to watch the fireworks across the highway. How often do you see a bunch of people on a ballfield? Walking back to my car they started the fireworks downtown so I saw those, then caught some driving thru Collegedale on my way home. So all in all I saw parts of all 3 displays last night.

A Snapshot of Jaclyn, RN, BSN

I had to take my camera with me today and didn't want to leave it in the car all day so... I decided to take some pictures while I had my camera handy. It will probably never happen again.

For those of you who call my cell phone during the day, this is where it answers: my locker.


2 Central Nurses Station
The balloons are because our floor shocked the hospital by winning the patient satisfaction award for this quarter.


From the other side...


The coveted trophy
What you see behind is the monitors booth. Somebody sits there and watches the patient's heart rhythms at all times.


The medroom/supply room 1


The medroom/supply room 2
The grey machines are called a pixis (would that be pixi for plural?) that hold medications. You have to know a code to get into this room and you have to use your ID and scan a finger to get into a pixis.


Our floor has 34 beds (I think) on 4 halls...
This is the front hall or 41-48


Affectionately called "The HOLE" this is 51-63, the longest hall. My legs ache when I work this hall (which I did yesterday and today) and it tends to attract the hardest patients somehow.


66-73


The back hall, 76-81, going to the Chattanooga Heart Institute


The connecting tunnel to CHI where I come to get the weather report, when I have time.

Carrie's pics from the camp weekend

Weekend at Nosoca

Eating in Lugoff at Restaurante Mexicano

Figuring out the bill...


At the agape feast


Mail run (how did we get old enough to drive new conference vehicles to get the camp mail?)


Line call


And she gets to drive the EZ Go (so does Stephanie, how weird this all is, I feel old)

All the pictures with me in them are on Carrie's camera so maybe she'll put some on her blog. Once again Stephanie and I got the "that must be your sister... or your twin..." treatment. Somebody even talked to me like I was her. Lucky we like each other, even love each other.

YAHOO!

Tonight is the last night of my Tech and the Educator class. How exciting! You can see my biggest project right here...

http://personal.southern.edu/~jford

Now it's off to Nosoca for the weekend then back to the grind of 3 days of work a week. I have one more paper to write and a project for my other class then it's done too. And then a few weeks before the summer is over. Wow...