January 2012
12 posts
“One of my patients was a young boy who had heart problems. He was not long for...”
– MSF nurse Mary Jo Frawley writes about working in Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010. (via doctorswithoutborders)
My elderly female patient came back from OR today around 6pm. She’s this small, little thing and they had given her 100 mcg of fentanyl AND versed AND she’s on a dilaudid PCA. Basically, she was knocked the entire fuck out. Well, she was arousable and could respond when you woke her up, but she was heavily sedated. Her husband, looked like her age too (mid 70’s), had gone down...
“You do your thing and I’ll do mine. You are you, and I am I. And, if, in the end, we end up together, then it’s beautiful.”
When a teacher tells you to stop talking, but it...
rattlingbones:
laughingstation:
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Lolll that’s exactly the face I had when that shit happened to me
December 2011
12 posts
I’m impatient and when things are wrong, I need to right them immediately. So when that’s not possible- meltdown. I have to learn that some things, most things, are out of my control. Usually, I can roll with the punches, but I felt pressed for time. It’s the end of the year - who wants to end it with a big ol’ mess? Not my obsessive compulsive ass. I need to remember that...
“It’s not about what happened in the past, or what you think might happen...”
I have this fixation on time. I’m quick to acquaint myself with the clocks in a room; feel naked without a watch strapped onto my left wrist. As a young girl, when I had the luxury of doing nothing, I remember following the changing angles and colors of the light entering through my window and splattering onto the wall. As expected, you get older and time becomes crucial to getting through...
November 2011
9 posts
I don’t know if I’ve changed or if I just finally know what I want
“We want revenge, not justice. That’s the problem with Democrats.”
– Chris Rock, on the disappointment in President Obama and the problem with Democrats in power, on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast.
This is exactly what I’ve been trying to figure out how to say for 27 months. (via deadpresidents)
I’d love to have a life so I could write about it here
October 2011
10 posts
“Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror....”
– Edgar Allen Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart” (via keiracrowther)
I’ve been so disconnected from the world outside 9 tower (my unit). I didn’t even know about occupy wall street until 2 weeks in. everytime I try to tweet I delete before sending fearing that I’m saying something obsolete (when are my tweets significant anyway?). All I know is how terrible Jersey drivers can be on on these little patches of route 1 south and 18 north, that...
September 2011
22 posts
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God, please grant me the patience to understand people who won’t help themselves.
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