New Friendtiers

THE GOOD

Last Thursday, I went to a Howie Day concert (the guy who sings "collide"). My cousin's friend Nick just moved to Austin and we are determined to take advantage of the "music scene". We decided on good ol' Howie for our first go around. The concert was really good. Definitely got to see some "wierd" Austin peeps but it was nice b/c there was only about 100 people there.






The opener was a guy named "Mikey Wax" who was actually pretty good and impressed us by playing the piano and guitar at the same time! After the concert, there was Mikey... all by his lonesome... so we decided to take a pic with him :-)

THE BAD

Well... the NICU nurses officially hate me! Saturday, my CI and I covered IP and OP wound care for the hospital. Our first patient was a cute 2 week old born with "epidermolysis bullosa" on her 4 extremities and neck (basically REALLY fragile skin which leads her to blister off her top layer of skin)... oh and MRSA. The baby was sedated because it is so painful. So the treatment is a long one (2.5 hours) with multiple doctors in and out who are at a loss of what to do. Towards the end... Tory and I were finishing up and needed the nurse to come in and hold her head while we treated her neck b/c she is intubated. We are hardly ever in the NICU and were in our "contact precaution attire" so she told me to push the "nursing assistance" button. I did... and evidently that was the CODE button! Several doctors and nurses came running in to revive our pt who was fine :-) I felt like an idiot and wondered if she was going to take the blame... luckily she did and I will know for next time!

THE UGLY

Today's wound care eval: 4yr old with perianal abscess. Enough said.