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September 30th, 2007

28 on 28 and life at the ER

2 IVs while at the Stanford Hospital ER
Originally uploaded by sindy

Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday on Friday, including my co-workers who called me during my usual work-at-home-Friday to sing “Happy Birthday.” I turned 28 on the 28th!

Unfortunately, I spent Friday evening, into the wee hours, at the ER and then most of the afternoon and into the late evening on Saturday again at the ER. No, it wasn’t a “drinking related emergency” or any such fun– I had been suffering through five days of an excruciating headache and eventually ended up in the ER. The photo here shows the TWO IVs I ended up having put in on Saturday after they failed THREE times to get an IV in, finally got one in (the one in my hand) and then realized they needed to put a larger needle in higher for the contrast scan.

In any case, a total of fourteen hours later, I’m sick of the ER, but finally pain free and everything looks okay. (If you’re going to the ER and you have the chance, bring a book– you’re going to be waiting.) Thanks to the ER staff who, although they couldn’t get my scans to happen faster (who am I to trump a trauma?), were very nice and took care of me well.

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September 25th, 2007

links for 2007-09-26

Google To â€œOut Openâ€ Facebook On November 5

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September 23rd, 2007

links for 2007-09-24

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September 22nd, 2007

Oh, the places you’ll go (on the Internet): phreequeshow

In this past week, not one, but TWO movies on cable with conjoined twins: Twin Falls Idaho and Brothers of the Head. In reading about conjoined twins on Wikipedia, I was led through the World Wide Web to eventually land on this website:

phreequeshow

Fascinating and, in many ways, inspiring. (You try to dress yourself, eat or any number of things without any arms or legs.)

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September 22nd, 2007