Head Nurse

People, you need to know: I am the Queen, Undisputed, of Mascara. I am asked routinely by perfect strangers in the grocery store if my las...

I had the first of the five-year hurdles last week: I saw my dentist. Me and my surgical deficit, we went in to the same office and sat in t...

Dr. Vizzini was rounding today with his residents and said, apropos of a patient, "It's all about that bass/'Bout that bass/No ...

All drama, all joking, all silliness aside: I need srs advice. Keith did two things in the past week that were so boneheaded, so arrog...

Here is my version, filtered through My Korean Kitchen and Kitty's Filipino father. Music for cooking: MmmBop  (can be altered to ...

Although I am working with him for two days, starting tomorrow, so I'll have tons of new material. Which is the only thing that's ...

We are fine here in Littleton. Bigton has hellish flooding, as do Houston and Dallas, but we in the sticks are far enough uphill of everythi...

Things I need to do this week: 1. Buy floaties 2. Figure out some way of keeping my trash bins from being washed down the street 3. Revi...

We have one rule at Sunnydale that is unbreakable. It has to do with scheduling, and it goes like this: everybody, no matter how long they...

After the Day of the Seizing patient, Kitty and Courtney and I took three days off. We met again, yesterday, when a patient's family mem...

It was a normal day in the CCU at Sunnydale (Hospital for the Hellmouth). Admissions, discharges, multiple procedures requiring conscious s...

Thanks for calling. Thanks for being so cheerful! I don't know how you do it, working, as you do, in the pits of hell. I apologize for...

. . .but I have the sudden urge to smack you over and over and over with a shovel across the back of the head, so could you sit down? Than...

I would really like to be in Seattle right now. From now until mid-October sounds about right; that means I would miss tornado season here. ...

My dog is on the lam. My dog is living under an assumed identity. My dog is being shielded by others at great cost to themselves. My d...

There was an ice storm. And Friend Abilene Rob and his lovely bride-to-be Alice moved closer (hooray!). And The Boyfiend started physical th...

I'm an ADN-prepared nurse. Those of you who've been here for a while know that I often refer to those two years (three, actually, co...

It's the classic nursing moment: after you've spent uncounted minutes putting a gorgeously neat, clean dressing on a wound, a doctor...