Theta sisters, what's new?

[undtheta2000]

Welcome blackngoldengrl! It's wonderful to see all of you newbies to the site!!
Well, work is interesting. Background: I am Methodist, and in our conference (Dakotas- ND and SD) we have a program called Sidewalk Sonday School. The conference has several trailers that are taken around to various cities/ towns across the 2 states and provide basically a program like Sunday School or Vacation Bible school, but it is an outreach program to kids/ families who may by unchurched. Anyway, we had the trailer in my city for 2 or 3 years, then the 2 Methodist churches here took it over (so the trailer could go other places.) We have 1 family who has come for a couple of years, and when a congregation member took Christmas presents to them in December, the mother requested a visit by the pastor (my dad). Well, they don't have a car and she wanted her girls to start going to church so a couple families have been giving them rides to church and Sun School this spring.
Anyway, I wanted to try and get the girls to church camp this summer, so finally met with them last Monday and got registration forms filled out. 1 is at camp this week, the other 2 are registered, but not sure if they will be able to go because they need transportation. With the cost of gas these days, I'm not so sure anyone will want to take a whole day to drive the 2 girls to the site in SD where the camp is, then someone has to take another day to pick them up. I can't do it- I'll be out of town both days. Actually, I'll be at the ND campsite helping witha camp, so...
But I got a phone call at work yesterday from a lady who informed me that the girl who is at camp this week is supposed to appear in court today, for whatever reason. OOPS! Well, I didn't know. She wanted to know if something over the phone could be arranged, so I gave her the number for the camp and the name of the Asst. Director- a friend of mine. I hung up and literally 1 minute later (maybe 2) the mother calls, and starts saying she completely forgot about the court thing because she was so excited her girl got to go to camp...she told me she was thinking she was a bad mother and would go to jail. No, not likely. Anyway, hopefully things will get worked out! Interesting time at work when you are in the ministry (even though I'm not a pastor or anywhere close to it!)
Those are my thoughts for the day. Wow!

[ThetaPrincess24]

Well this has been a bad week on my floor at the hospital. First off on Sunday night I swear we had a couple of looney toon patients. One liked her morphine a bit too much so we got that order cancelled and put her on another kind of pain mgt. drug. The other one was a highly confused 93 year old lady......who later became mildly combative. I decided to put oxygen on her because a lot of time when people's oxygen saturation drops below a certain point they start to become very restless and confused (before they turn blue if you will). That helped and fixed the problem then she became the sweet lil old lady she was last week. However now her oxygen has to stay on all the time or her oxygen drops and the mean-ness comes back. Obviously there is more to this story as well but I'll stop for now. Well then Yesterday morning one of my patients died at shift change......in front of me.....It was my first patient that I've lost and combined that I was there when he died. I saw him die...and eventhough he was on his way out of this world, we werent expecting him to pass so quickly.....the cancer had just eaten him up inside and there jsut wasnt much left. But I'm still upset about that. It's not something you get used to seeing and you shouldnt get used to seeing people die. Then early this morning the computer system we use to chart on our patients went down from 1am to 5am so that made things extremely stressful........combined with two more ladies that I swear were nuttier than a fruitcake...........I'm so glad this week is over and I'm off to applebee's for happy hour!

[DominoTheta]

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

Well this has been a bad week on my floor at the hospital. First off on Sunday night I swear we had a couple of looney toon patients. One liked her morphine a bit too much so we got that order cancelled and put her on another kind of pain mgt. drug. The other one was a highly confused 93 year old lady......who later became mildly combative. I decided to put oxygen on her because a lot of time when people's oxygen saturation drops below a certain point they start to become very restless and confused (before they turn blue if you will). That helped and fixed the problem then she became the sweet lil old lady she was last week. However now her oxygen has to stay on all the time or her oxygen drops and the mean-ness comes back. Obviously there is more to this story as well but I'll stop for now. Well then Yesterday morning one of my patients died at shift change......in front of me.....It was my first patient that I've lost and combined that I was there when he died. I saw him die...and eventhough he was on his way out of this world, we werent expecting him to pass so quickly.....the cancer had just eaten him up inside and there jsut wasnt much left. But I'm still upset about that. It's not something you get used to seeing and you shouldnt get used to seeing people die. Then early this morning the computer system we use to chart on our patients went down from 1am to 5am so that made things extremely stressful........combined with two more ladies that I swear were nuttier than a fruitcake...........I'm so glad this week is over and I'm off to applebee's for happy hour!

Girl, sounds like your little old lady has thrown a clot. Had two cases like that in the last couple of months. Both had thrown clots. Had one situation where I thought the lady had thrown a clot, but by the time we got to the hospital with her, I changed my mind. The oxygen didn't bring her around like the others. She presented the same way as the others, but it turned out being a bleed stroke.