Anyone that's been in emergency medicine for any length of time knows that sometimes $#!T really does happen...
Not that I'm here to whine or vent. Stepping back from it all and observing, it just seems to be all crazy and there is no good explanation for any of it. I'm calling it strange phenomena...
There are so many times weird things happen and it's different things that are going wrong.
I'm not talking about the holiday's where families finally go to see gramma that 1 time each year. They get all concerned that she seems a bit "different" from last years visit so something HAS to be wrong, right? Then sends her to the ER and you get 8-10 nursing home patients at once.
No, I'm talking about times like today where it seems like everyone on coumadin is falling down. I call it "gravity-bursts". Gravity has been more active today reaching up and grabbing people on coumadin and slamming them to the ground. I have had 4 patients that have fallen down, they're on coumadin and all have cranial bleeds. Amazing. I can go a month or two with no hemorragic strokes and today... .
Anyone else care to share similar clusters of problems or strange phenomena?
Our Friday night was a plethora of GI bleeders, in succession, and they all ended up in the same room (not at the same time, you know, but that was the room that just happened to be open when they arrived).
my dog is a sock monster, i am constantly finding half eaten socks in the yard. How the heck she smuggles them out of the house, I don't know. I mean unless she figured out how to let herself out too.
We get runs of different complaints but I have noticed we get more kidney stones when its been dry and a storm front is coming in. I think the barometric pressure change affects them. But they are a lot like potato chips.......you never get just one of em.
Lunah, MSN, RN
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Our Friday night was a plethora of GI bleeders, in succession, and they all ended up in the same room (not at the same time, you know, but that was the room that just happened to be open when they arrived).