How to Text and Drive

I added these pictures as an afterthought. Dealing with some bitchy daughter who had some problem yesterday, put me in a good mood so to speak. She told me there was no organization on my floor, that she was going to lodge a complaint, that nobody could set up a wound vacuum for her father, the Home Health company couldn't tell her when the nurse was going to come, so she wanted me to call them and then call her back so she didn't spend all day waiting.

Guess what, she spent all day waiting. You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, Madam, didn't you learn anything in school? And while that sinks in, consider this: Nurses are damn tired of being bitched at all the time.

I remember visiting dear old Dad in the hospital when he had his bypass, and I stepped out of the way when the nurse came in. When they announced visiting hours were over, we gathered ourselves and got the hell out. We respected the medical staff.

I didn't know we didn't have to, that I could have unloaded all my anxieties and fears upon them.

Wait, not then. Now. And after we take all this crap, we hand them a survey and a pass for a free Coke. Just don't say anything bad about us, in case Medicare is listening okay?

And go ahead and fill that survey out while you're driving home. Text it to me.

And that's how you say, "Watch out World, I'm tech savvy."



How's that change workin out for ya?

It’s been a fast three years since Obama was elected president, and the Hope has all but drained away. The economy is still in the toilet, people are still out of work, and China continues to buy up US debt, foreclosed homes, and is now flying pregnant women here to give birth for US citizenship.

Why not, everyone else does. Fucking 14^th Amendment. It’s a free ticket to lifelong benefits on the back of the American worker.

Not that Obama hasn’t tried to jump start the economy. He’s got that Cash For Clunkers crap under his belt to help the Auto Industry, and he paid off as many banks as he could with government money, so they wouldn’t feel bad about kicking people out of their homes…

The American, beaten and downtrodden, yet stupid enough to listen to every celebrity, every politician who opens a can of lies. Because, these are our royalty.

Bullshit. If I wanted royalty I’d move to Saudi Arabia and beat women, smoke a hookah and strap a bomb to my chest. This is the United States, and we’re supposed to be better than that. 

What happened? Is it that we’ve mixed our population so thickly with Third-World shithole dwellers, that our gross intelligence has dropped? Probably. Is it that technology has so removed us from actual interpersonal, face to face communication that we’re more likely to believe anything in print, even if it just tweeted from some twelve year old playing in his room? Again, probably. 

Which brings me back to Obama. When Oprah said this guy should be president, the race was over. You can fight it, you can gimmick your own run with the likes of an idiot like Sarah Palin, but as we all know, 

 Oprah said it 

 You believe it 

 And that settles it.



I'm chillin on your money, 'kay?


So the recent revelation that Obama is okay with being a one-term president, is very okay with a lot of Americans. Not the, He can do no wrong because he’s the first black president crowd, nor the, You don’t like him because he’s black crowd. That is being simplistic and shall we say, stupid. People who dwell on that are racists of any color. The problem is, he’s a mundane president. Because he for sure didn’t have any goddam plans for making America better. Just Oprah-spewed bullshit. And any president who doesn’t want the job for another four years, doesn’t believe in what he’s doing anyway. 

The five-star Villa Padierna, 'Millionaires' Playground', where Michelle-O and her huge entourage stayed in Spain - 60 to 70 rooms had been rented for the First Lady. President of the People?

So go, Barack, have happy vacations with your happy children and Michelle who loves traveling on the US tax dollar while us regular Americans, your countrymen, are losing our homes and jobs. 

Maybe sooner or later we’ll get someone in there who cares.

Click the Purple Button

Can you swim? Summer is coming and you'll be at the beach. Maybe there's a lifeguard, maybe not. You may be asked to be the hero. You know your CPR, but what about when their lungs are full of water?Do you remember what to do then? Or, will you look like this. If you do, look for a quick exit when it's over. Like that guy did.

I'm kind of sick of ER. Seriously. They tend to think there's only one place and that's the emergency room. Well open your minds and hearts, kids. It's not all about you.


SuperNurse: About a year ago Reader's Digest published an article "50 Secrets ER Doctors Won't Tell You." Okay so in the middle of the magazine they changed that to ER Staff, not Doctors. So get to the point. One RN's quotes kept appearing and reappearing, making her at least in my mind, a Super Excellent Nurse. Let's look at some of her genius:

  "The busiest time starts around 6 p.m.; Mondays are the worst. We're slowest from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. If you have a choice, come early in the morning."
 
Okay, sounds reasonable. Mondays are the worst, nobody wants to work Mondays, I can tell you that. Or Fridays. Another: 

       "We like the rapid turnover, so we don't want you stuck in the ER while you're waiting to be admitted. If we wanted to care for the same patient for hours at a time, we would work on an in-patient ward."
 
Whoa, cutting a little close to home there, SuperNurse. Sounding a little smug. One more for you to get that foot out of your mouth:

       "Some of us are pretty good at spotting people who come in to score pain medication- especially if you're specific about the drug you want or you don't look like you're in that much pain but you drove an hour from your home to get there."
 
Brilliant. Thank you for stating the obvious; then again, it's the Reader's Digest. SuperNurse has been played today by Denise King, RN, of Riverside, California. If you pass her in Wal-Mart, say hey.

  And as always, don't forget Japan. Or their little furry friends. With their radiation leaks we all have something to worry about.                           

   
   American Red Cross for Japan

                        or maybe International Fund For Animals  

Your choice, but make one.