comin up crazy

Today I saw a man in extreme pain as we changed his dressing. He was bitten by a brown recluse spider (yes, just like Jacques Demboise), and that ate away at the skin on the front part of his leg to create a one foot by half-a-foot giant fleshwound. (Google Image a "brown recluse"---stupid Blogger won't let me upload a picture OR a link to a picture.) The poor guy, we drugged him up so that he wouldn't be in such pain; you have to pull the old dressing off, and since it's a vacuum-sponge, it's stuck tight to the wound. Then you need to cut the new sponge to fit the wound, place it on, tape a sterile clear sticky pad on top of it...and then stand back cuz once you turn on the vacuum he will want to jump out of the bed and scream in pain. So this guy gets a dose of narcotics, and it didn't take. So one of my interns gives a half-dose more, and the guy's eyes are just rollin back in his head and he lays back. The intern kept saying "Are you still with us? Big deep breaths Mr. A! Good, you're doing well." At one point though he shot straight up in pain and then laid back down hyperventilating and crying. He won't remember it, but it was just so awful and scary, and I felt so badly for him. Plus we had to monitor him extra closely what with the CNS and respiratory depression the narcotic gave him. This will have to happen like every 3rd day...

Then I went to the bathroom, my glasses fell off my face, and I fractured my left lens!!!! NO!!!!!! These glasses are so frickin new, my script is soooo frickin bad, and they cost too frickin much (although Lenscrafters originally screwed my order up so bad, I'd ended up getting them for like 45% off).

Then I took out a super-nice middle age man's sutures at clinic. I had no idea that it was just cut and pull; the guy didn't even feel it! Is it weird to say that it was really fun?

So Lenscrafters says to me, "We have to replace BOTH lenses due to optical error. We'll give it to you half price, though; it'll be $190."

!!!!!

After work/classes, I went to the store for mozarella whilst Gen cooked up part of the Eggplant Parm. I came to the realization that I come to on a daily basis, which is that I like boys a lot. I like how they're built. I thought this as a checked out a hot boy at the store.

After Gen and I feasted, I dragged myself over to Lenscrafters where I got the damage report: "It looks like they broke from the frame. Since you've only had these for a few months, I'm going to give the lenses to you free of charge."

FREE OF CHARGE! That's the best thing I've heard ALL DAY!

And how was your day