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July 15, 2004
Loody's comin' - hide your heart girl.
I am so excited. The light is shining upon me. The rains have dried. And the fog.... well, the fog is still here.
I actually like the fog, it just makes me feel sleepy and cozy.
On another note, a sterile fiasco ensued at clinic today when I had to do a dressing change on a central line on a patient who was neutropenic (low White Blood Cells so really susceptible to infection).
I went through 6 PAIRS OF STERILE GLOVES because I kept touching not sterile things (my watch, by accident -- the glove package on the bed that I was trying to get out of my way -- my watch again -- the table -- the nonsterile part of the glove with the sterile part). Blah Blah Blah Blah.
It was horrifying.
I felt like a total moron because I have never made the same mistake OVER AND OVER again quite like that before. Not to mention that I was wearing a surgical mask and was sweating out my nose and upper lip like a damn monkey. Luckily the nurse was wonderful and just kept saying, "breathe...and get another pair of gloves."
It's weird, because we practice in class, but it's nothing AT ALL like really being there. Believe me, a plastic penis is no match for a real thing attached to a real person.
Most of all it just made me realize how much retraining of my brain I have to do.
Everything i touch is DIRRRRRRTyYYYYYYY.
Gotta wash my hands.
Posted by missfitsandstarts at July 15, 2004 11:03 PM
