OOTS never made my cry before.

Sleep possible on the plane, Maria?

Hivemind question from someone who is totally unthinky right now: I have to fill out an OSHA Exposure Incident Form due to getting some scratches which broke the skin while restraining someone at the group home last week. One of the questions is "If personal protective equipment was not used explain why." How in blue bloody blazes am I supposed to answer that? Is "because we do not put personal protective equipment on for restraints" too snotty an answer, or will it open up the can of worms of why not? I mean, aside from the fact that you can't tell the person who is being restrained to stop trying to hit, kick, bite, scratch and bring the house down on top of you while you go get some gloves and a face shield on. The proper personal safety equipment would be a Puffy!Xander suit, and there is not one available.

Incidentally, I skipped madly past about 200 posts. I'm fortunate in that I get warnings before I get a migraine, and I can head it of with Excedrin. I didn't have real Excedrin at work when the dizziness started, but apparently a cup of coffee, a Tylenol and an Ibuprofen do the trick as well. I was pretty loopy during the work day, but not in pain. So, so thankful. Except I got pulled over on the way home from work, to get a warning about having a headlight out. Police officer was very nice about it, but he did have very bright flashing lights on his car and it made me pretty nauseated.

WS, I usually answer that type of question "N/A," since there is no available safety equipment.

In a Freecycle e-mail: "Preference goes to the earliest pickup who does not use chat speak in his or her message."

I second n/a

If there's no safety equipment used when restraining someone, then the answer is N/A. If you normally wear gloves and face shield during restraints, then the explanation is that the situation was such that you couldn't put the equipment on without putting other patients in danger.

Sleep possible on the plane, Maria?

It may be. Due to the requirement of purchasing the lowest-cost ticket, I'm going from BWI to Detroit and Detroit to Chicago. Each flight is about an hour and a half.

In the case of an incident where a member of home X is upset, in is important to restrain them quickly in order to keep them from doing serious harm to them selves are in order. The extreme amount of protective gear needed in order to protect personnel from a few bumps and scrapes would cause a delay that could cause major harm to the patient and or personnel

or something like that

so I've tried 5 Hour Energy. The verdict: not good for work (although the first two hours were excellent, now I'm full of fidget and thirst) but possibly fun in combination with recreational drugs and activity (mini golf comes to mind).

A note for those who have read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Tonight I was at a store and the paged "Adam Selene" to go somewhere in the store.

I was amused.

Thanks for the help!

Happy... er... ok flying, Maria.