have you ever thought sticking pins into yourself was a good idea?

This guy certainly thought so, 2008 times in fact for the Bejing Olympics!

Ouch!

sometimes its just one of those days

You know when you have "one of those days" where all that can happen does, well that was my yesterday. After a fairly average start, where the alarm goes off and you cant believe you actually got any sleep, to chasing stuff up that someone else puts in the too hard basket, which is not on in an icu.
Waddya mean you couldnt get bloods done, there is a whopping vein right here, i point to spot, oh you had to peel back some plastic, oh i forgot, you work as a blood collector.

That was about 7.30am,  it didnt get much better, pt slipping into a worsening medical condition, trying to pump in as much drugs as her ailing heart would allow to keep her lungs from filling up, with moderate amount of success over next few hours.
15.30 now breathing and not drowning, good.

Just getting on top of things, when first code went off, so off we run at a rate that had me more hypoxic than the pt we were called to, and was successfully transferred to the unit and now breathing assisted by ventilator- pt not me. Poor guy had a gut looking like he was having a baby cow, no gastric tube and on the ward for 2 weeks filling up, prob had no lung space left to breath with, so now has tube, both ends, yay.

 17 30 finally getting him settled and under control, when second code went off, in front of the hospital.
Running again, except we realised whilst running we had no crash cart. crap. yelling at student, poor love, to get the crash cart, but it ended up the pt was unconscious but still had a pulse, just not breathing to well.
Alcohol and drugs, what a surprise. The driver who brought her in didnt see the rather large emergency sign brightly lit in red at the front and instead drove around to the desk for admissions, of course.

Back to icu, pt needing more iv access but shut down, struggling to find any veins, junior dr too shattered to help, so found a large bore cannula and just went for a major one, success, yay. now 19.30pm.
That when we are supposed to finish. The doc and i looked at eachother and laughed, as code 3 was announced, thank god night staff were here!
pt = patient.

FNSI

 I've been busy, yep not new, but did get to sew a little bit in between, so no fancy pics, just bits all over the room waiting to be put together! I did have a very nice birthday with my family on the riverside, got some very pretty flowers and a fancy purse, and yummy chocs!

The last one is still waiting to have a border put on and then can be quilted, then it can go to a good home!
Hope ya'll had a great night!

Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack"

Holy Crack! This is really living off the edge! 

 wish i had the lack of fear to do this!

Enjoy!

Rome part two and a half!

Rome is an amazing city, so many ancient remains to see, and fabulous buildings and monuments, it takes a long time to get to see it all. We were there a week and still did not see it all, but here are a few of the things we did get to visit.

 More of Ancient Rome

The Casa Delle Vestale

 Inside St Peters - The Vatican

 Artwork by Michaelangelo

 The Beautiful Villa Borghese and massive gardens

 A lovely fountain to sit and relax by

not far from the produce markets

A truly amazing city, but not sure if i could live there, outside the city centre its dirty and rundown, but further out in the country or seaside its beautiful, which is probably why a lot of italians like to live out of rome.
Until next time, hope you are having fun ! 

travels and other stuff

Currently my hubs and son are in the good ole usa, having a fabulous time, they have been to Seattle, a music festival just north in Fort Worden where they were minor celebrities as the fartherst? distance travelled to attend! Now they are at Sturgis in South Dakota. They have just seen Mt Rushmore and CrazyHorse monuments, and will head towards Montana in the next few days.Then off to Las Vegas, a must see, and then back to San Fran and drive down to LA. Lucky buggers. Its been a big year for us, we decided to bond with our kids before they head off on their own into the world, its been a great decision. Ive been very busy with work and renovating, i am finding this stressful at times. Anyway i am very lucky to have a lovely home (even if it needs work) and wonderful family to share it with, i hope you all have a great weekend !

 

The dog waits patiently for me to continue with the latest quilt in the making, its all very patriotic in red white and blue! 

FNSI

I've been swamped at the moment, so my post is late, but I did do some sewing, in fact i have done a couple of little blocks to practice my FMQ, not sure what to do with them now!

Will try to do more later! You can check out more lovely stuff over at Heidi's, see ya there!

Rome part one

I hope you like these photos of Rome, some of the most amazing historical sites smack in the middle of a sprawling city,  beginning with this huge monument constructed for the first king of Italy

 

St Peters

 getting ready for an audience with the pope for easter

Piazza Navona and the fountains of the four major rivers of the world

 the tower commemorating Marcus Aurelius

 The famous Spanish Steps

 Ancient Rome Looking back towards the Coloseum

to be continued, there is so much to see here, it took us a week to just see all this!

Bastille Day

Joyeuse Fete De Bastille!

 

Wordless wednesday

 Ahhh Italy...

more later...see other lovely ww at Faith Hope and a whole lotta love