27 July 2023

hot days












Out in the field yesterday. 
The pump malfunctioned. 
Made a sticky, hot mess. 


So many rules were violated this week. 
Two appointments. 
(In the heat dome)
Two times getting stranded by the driver. 


Eggs. Imagine a nice egg here. 
Eggs and Protein Shakes 


Hey! I had that exact lab coat! 
From  FRIENDS circa 1990 

Another day. 
Waiting for the van. 
6 hours. Just sitting and waiting. 
Some outside. Some inside. 


26 July 2023

pink gorilla


AugustHenge is almost upon us 


Off to work. Another day. 


God I am so tired!
I thought my energy level 
Would improve after vacation. 
It did not. 
In fact, its worse. 











Funny. When I first read this,
I thought it said “cat food”
And i was like “Who is going 
To eat cat food?”

JERF
Just Eat Real Food 

Why would anyone mess with this? 
It would hurt people to take away Kratom. 
It would not help. 





Familiar pose 


If God has called you to do a task,
Surely God would tell you what to do
And what to say- and to whom- 
When you do the task. 

Nurses often do not know what to say. 
My housemate got a hold of one of those nurses. 
He didn't know what to say. FNP. 
He had a horrible bedside manner. 
He ended up making her feel bad. 
In fact, crying, anxious and depressed. 
Such damage from a stupid, crass idiot.  

Once Upon A True Story…
It was a dark and stormy nigh
Way back in the early 1990s. 
I just graduated from Nursing School,
and was home from the Gulf War. 

A little old lady and man came in. 
He was actively dying. 
The woman asked of he was going to be ok. 
And I said “Yes- of course he is!”
Because I didn't want to be rude. 
Two wrongs don’t make a right. 
Another Nurse heard what was happening 
And jumped in. “No ma’am. 
He is NOT going to be alright.”

Maybe cosmically. But not physically. 
He died, and I learned what a huge 
Responsibility Nursing is. 
War. Death. Injury. Disease. 
Now deadly Plagues and Quarantine. 

Even here in BlogLand. 
Being a Former Fatty- while huge-
Is not just nice butts and pretty faces. 
Its so real sometimes- 
It stops me in my tracks. 






25 July 2023

oh my gosh

End of Summer days 


The Transport Van broke down 
And my Little Patient and I
Were stranded on the side of the road. 
In extreme heat. 


In fact, we Texans have 
A heat dome of our very own. 
I poured water on the kid’s face and head,
Called the dad, and waited for help. 
Only an hour. But still. 




Today was the patient’s birthday! 
And also Baby BamBam’s Birthday!


The first time I saw my future baby. 
He looked up at me 
With crusty little eye boogars
And said  “Are you my Mommy?”

To which I responded with a 
Resounding Yes! 
Yass-Yass- a thousand times Yass! 
Get over here, honey Bunny Love Bug!





Sitting on a cornflake 
Waiting for the van to come …
My life this week is like a waiting game. 
Jumping over hills and dales. 
I’m not even sure what a “dale” is. 
Fo we still have dales to go over? 
LOL