I just worked the last four days, and I am (always) exhausted. Gawd, how many posts has is been that started just like this? How boring! Get a life already! Sheeesh man!

Mmm... Lets see, last Sunday morning, border patrol sent 6 "desert walkers"(Mexican immigrants) by ambulance to our hospital. When I came to work on Sunday, the staff was prepping the surviving five for transfer to the ICU for further treatment. They were severely hypothermic (82 degrees!) and so young... The one they couldn't revive was only 18 years old. You see, last weekend it rained here, and in other parts it snowed for like the first time all winter. They were just caught in a terrible storm and apparently had no survival equipment. It freaking blows my mind that people would walk thru the wretched terrain of the desert and have NOTHING TO BUILD A FIRE WITH OR ENOUGH WATER TO DRINK! They had nothing but their sodden clothes on their back. Its very sad.

Then on Monday, one of the ambulances brought us one of the biggest persons I have ever seen. He was lying on the floor of the ambulance and it was wall to wall belly. He was very ill and his mental status was altered, so he wasn't even able to sit up, or assist in any way. We used a hoyer lift to get him out of the ambulance, which kinda looks like a cherry picker. When I asked the medic how he got the patient into the ambulance in the first place, he replied, "Well, it took eight firefighters..."

Tuesday and Wednesday, well, they were more mundane, thank God.

Oooh, Go rent Jarhead, its a great commentary on war... I watched it last night with Ryan and Aurora. Well, she watched it until it started showing burned-up bodies, and then it was all of a sudden, bedtime. I never had any censorship as a child, and I don't want to impose any on her, but I would like to protect her from scary images that can cause nightmares. But then I have to brace myself when she asks "Who is a fuckingasshole?"
"Um, honey? That is a grown-up word, and its not appropriate for little kids to say it. Please don't say things like that, it doesn't sound nice."
"Ohhh, okay...(with big giant crocodile tears in her eyes)"

*Note to self: stop cussing so damn much! Shit!