Daily Dose of BS March 6 patients death

I thought if you worked in health care, as a doctor or a nurse that your job was to work directly with patients and their families. I also thought that a nurse was the primary point of contact between the patient and the world of health care.  I also thought that the job of a nurse was to perform frequent patient evaluations, including monitoring and tracking vital signs, performing procedures such as IV placement, phlebotomy (draw blood), and administering medications.  I really thought that the job of a nurse was to work to keep a patient alive.  I guess I thought that would be the job of any caring person.  When I saw and heard the stories from earlier this week about the 87 year old nursing home patient that died back in February while she was a patient in the care of a nursing home, she died because a nurse there refused to give cpr that bugs me and bugs me more than usually things bug me.  

Daily Dose of BS March 5 thank you

I am lucky I have great friends who help me out all the time; especially since I broke my leg I have needed more help than I usually do.  I am sure I have forgotten to say please and thank you.  I think this starts when we are little, asking Mom or Dad for this that and the other thing, as a Dad I try to remind my kids to say thanks, I even try to each and every time that something is delivered to the table when out to eat.  I believe that when you are polite to people it disarms them, if they are crabby and you say please or thank you, you have them in your hand.  The power of polite I believe is huge and for that I thank you for spending the time to read this, and for all those who have helped me in the past and I forget to say thank you for that I am sorry.  Have a great day. 

Daily Dose of BS March 4 weekend

How was the weekend?  I enjoyed the days off and rested for the most part with my leg up.  I got some bad news on Friday that the fibula that I broke on February 2 shifted and now I can't put any weight on my leg.  I am a big man and to not put any weight on my leg is pretty much impossible.  I’ve been trying though.  The bright spot is the knee scooter I got, zipping around without having to use crutches makes it a bit easier.  On Saturday I emceed the Rocking Out Hunger, we have lots of great local bands and two of the best took the stage Saturday, The Executives and The Remainders, I got to rock the Cow Bell for The Executives, my Mom would be proud.  While BS’ing with some friends who were there they explained how some idiot passed the stopped school bus in front of their house and thank goodness the kids were kids and taking their time to get off the bus, if it would have been a few seconds later things could have tragically different.  I am guessing it was someone texting they looked up saw the stopped cars and thought what to do, slid around the cars and could have killed a couple of kids.  You got to ask yourself is your text worth a life?

Daily Dose of BS March 1 Sleep

I won.  I won the game of sleep.  I went to bed last night when I was tired, fell right asleep and made it through the night, the game winner was I woke up one minute before my alarm.  I felt rested, and ready to take on the day.  To be honest, I do not remember the last time that I had the trifecta of sleep, bed when I wanted a full night without waking up and up right before my alarm.  I really should buy a lottery ticket today cause a good night sleep is the foundation of a great day right?  Which makes me think about sleep, we all need it but rarely do we get all that we need, I went to bed last night right before 9 and woke at 4, 7 full hours of uninterrupted sleep, most of the time I shoot for 5-6 hours.  Do you have a sleep ritual?  I start on my back then lay on my right side then to my left this is before I even drift off to slumber, I have no idea how much tossing I do when I am actually asleep.  I just have to remember what I did last night to cause such a great nights sleep.  

Daily Dose of BS Feb 28 pot smoking

There seems to be more drugs on sitcoms, when they had that “70’s show” and the camera that rotated in the circle of smoke, there were some funny things said, they never really talked about the smoking of pot but it was assumed especially once they brought in Tommy Chongs character.  Plus the 70’s to me seemed like the time when they did more pot.  Fast forward to some of the biggest sitcoms of today and there is the pot once again, in the tv show that I find the funniest “How I met your Mother” they always reference it as eating a sandwich but on the highly inappropriate for kids “Two and a half men” it is blatant and is smoked by more than one of the characters.  Not that I am a prude cause I don’t think I am but, I also believe that these tv shows shouldn’t make light of smoking pot because it is illegal.  Here is the twist, I think that marijuana should be legalized our country is in serious debt, and I believe that we will never get out of this debt and I think that the taxes from marijuana alone could make a huge dent in that debt.  

Daily Dose of BS Feb 27 Kiss

I doesn’t matter how much money you make, it’s how much you save and how smart you are with your money.  I heard that the guitarist for my favorite band of all time Ace Frehley from KISS is definitely not back (BACK!), back in the New York groove, word is that his home is getting foreclosed on. It seems like the people who make the most money the fastest have the hardest time holding on to it.  I was thinking about this and it seems to make since to me, how can you be responsible for millions of dollars if you cannot even keep track of your minimum wage jobs cash.  If you were to come into lots of money quick either from investments that went well, to winning a lottery or got a job that pays you way too much you got to start with what you know about money and budget, remember there is a limited supply.  Ace Frehley isn’t the only famous singer to go from rags to riches to rags again, Meatloaf, Ted Nugent, MC Hammer, Billy Joel, as well as Willie Nelson and Marvin Gaye.  Just because you have the cash doesn’t mean you can hang on to it.  If you come in to a windfall, find people who can help you out. 

Daily Dose of BS Feb 26 bathroom wastes

About every ten days I have the same problem the bar of soap is too small to use, I have tried morphing the smaller sliver of soap into the bigger new bar of Irish Spring but nope it doesn’t work.  What are we supposed to do with those little slivers of perfectly good soap?  Think about the wastes that go on in the bathroom alone.  You’re on the thorn you look at the paper and damn there are about 3 squares left for you to finish your job, three squares have you seen what I sit on three little squares are not going to make a dent.  What do you do with those 3 extra squares?  I don’t know, I leave them for the next guy, not really, ok sometimes I do.  Think of tooth paste, if you squeeze from the middle you miss lots at bottom and sides,  I squeeze from the bottom then about half way done I start the roll of the tube, then try to get the last drop out, but there is still the bit at the top that you can't get.  Which leaves me with the deodorant pack, if you make it down toward the end of the deodorant you will either break the piece off at the bottom or you will hit the sides of the container with your armpit.  You just can't win in the bathroom.