Looks like they're giving me the old school protocol at the ER this week. Hope it helps.
Did you know some IV meds taste on injection? Weirdness. I can taste benadryl and toradol, and the first push of saline.
Just have to remember to breathe.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2010 6:43:30 am PST #15855 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - Mar 13, 2010 6:44:21 am PST #15856 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I hope so too, ita!
Please do remember, yes.
Barb - Mar 13, 2010 6:50:25 am PST #15857 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Yes, breathing would be good.
-t - Mar 13, 2010 6:52:37 am PST #15858 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hope it helps, ita. Breathing is very good, I am in favor of breathing.
I've run into that tasting the IV thing before, it's a pretty weird sensation. I think I've gotten it with dyes, maybe?
Jesse - Mar 13, 2010 7:35:55 am PST #15859 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I also vote for breathing...
By the time I was 12 or 13, she would write things like "I love Duran Duran!" on the banana, which just cemented her rep as the cool mom.
That is awesome! And I'm glad mine isn't the only family that does that.
Burrell - Mar 13, 2010 8:33:26 am PST #15860 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So I am trying to find a store that carries Nubar polish so that I can walk in and buy it and not have to pay shipping. No way can I justify buying $75 worth of nail polish. Sigh. No one carries Nubar.
Any LAista want to go in with me on an order? I know Kat just ordered some, so not her presumably, but anyone else?
Strix - Mar 13, 2010 8:34:15 am PST #15861 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Did you know some IV meds taste on injection? Weirdness. I can taste benadryl and toradol, and the first push of saline.
Yes!! Hah, I'm not the only one. I could totally taste benadryl when they shot me up with it (morphine pump is lovely, but it makes me a little itchy.)
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2010 9:09:07 am PST #15862 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Breathing, check.
Today's second nurse was one of the good ones. Most nurses try twice (if that often) to find a line and then bail. First nurse declared me one of the worst cases ever without poking me at all. Him? He's never left until I've gotten a line in me somewhere, and he's adamant athat it won't be a doctor-administered neck IV.
I'm always relieved when he comes in.
DavidS - Mar 13, 2010 9:15:03 am PST #15863 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm always relieved when he comes in.
You should tell him. Being the good, diligent, patient-first nurse doesn't always get rewarded.
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2010 9:16:59 am PST #15864 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So I am trying to find a store that carries Nubar polish so that I can walk in and buy it and not have to pay shipping. No way can I justify buying $75 worth of nail polish. Sigh. No one carries Nubar.
Can you call Nubar and ask about local salons who carry their product? A lot of salons also sell polish. And Nubar, IIRC, is based out of LA.