Night of Frights!!!!

This is by far my favorite of all Friday's. You see I was born on Friday the 13th, in May of course, but I like all of them! HAMJAR is going to see Stranger's and The Happening. I will blog later on the events that take place on the most frightening of nights.
I worked a couple of days this week, both of which involved the patients coding in the same room on different days. The first episode was a 50 something male who was pretty sure he was having a heart attack. I did his EKG and showed the DR. who confirmed he was indeed having an MI. We both went back into the room and started preparing the patient to go for a cardiac cath at which time he goes into V-Fib and stops talking and eventually breathing. Luckily the appropriate staff was in the room, the patient was shocked back into a normal rhythm and woke to continue talking to us as if nothing had happened. If this man would have been at home, he would have died. Thank God he came in. The next scenario is that of an elderly woman coughing up blood. A fellow tech had put her on a bedpan and the clerk heard her choking. I went into assess and took her off the bedpan., She was very anxious and said she needed help. Her O2 sats dropped from 95-68-12-9-0 at 68 I called the nurse into the room, we started bagging her and then she was intubated. Another life saved. It is weird to watch someone just stop existing right in front of you, however it was not their day to die. It is such a great experience for my future career to watch and help in these crisis.
I had the advantage of meeting with a group from church last night who is introducing a new young lady named Alli to the area. Limestone HS has just allowed Campus Life a program aimed at getting teens and communities involved in sharing the love of Jesus this will hopefully get more teens hooked up with churches and Jesus. It was a gorgeous night poolside, wonderful conversation and fruit kabobs. We look forward to many more encounters with Alli.
Maia is doing great and growing. She is so beautiful. I am helping work on her benefit which will be August 17th and will help establish funds so that Deena and Walt can make it so she can move about the house even with her disability. If you want more info just contact me and I can hook you up. I will be posting a flyer soon about all the details.
Well hope everyone has a great evening and I will be back soon!
K~