No Thank You

Is this really necessary?

Life in the ER

I have found myself spending a lot of time in the ER lately. No, I did not pick up a new shift at the hospital, but if things keep going the way they are they might as well give me a position. Today was my second trip to the Emergency Room in about oh maybe 28 hours. Yesterday I took my roommate who believed that she had a blood clot in her leg. Don't worry she is fine but she did have legitimate reason to believe that she had a clot. That was the easy trip. We were in and out of the hospital in about 2 hours. I even got to go with her to get her ultra sound. Today was a different story though.

I was in my ice skating class and we were working on some of our choreography for our performance in April when I looked to my right and see this one girl fall backwards and land right on her wrist. She screamed out and I skated over to her. (I guess the doctor in me has already kicked in.) It was apparent that it was broken so the teacher and I got her off the ice and I promptly began to splint her wrist with whatever I could find. I did a pretty good job splinting with two pairs of socks and my polar fleece and then drove her to the Emergency Room. When we got there they took x-rays of the wrist and it was obviously broken; the whole radius was snapped and shifted over. I thought that we would be there 3 or 4 hours tops but 4 hours rolled around and we still had not seen the orthopedist. Then 5 hours and the movie Clear and Present Danger later we still had not heard from the Orthopedist. Finally after about 7 hours we heard that the doctor was on his way. The thing is we knew that they were still going to have to set the bone back in place and to do that put her under which takes even longer for the sedation to wear off before we could go home.

The doctor got there and was in the process of reducing her break when she her breathing nearly stopped. That was intense. The nurses are yelling 50…45…40 someone call respiratory and get them down here now! They finally got her breathing again and got the bone set but it was sure an adventure to get there. As we were being discharged and wheeled out of the hospital it had been a whopping 9 hours of hospital fun!

I really hope that tomorrow is a dull incident free day.

Weird Weekend

I had the strangest day yesterday. I woke up to a very unique sound outside of my window kind of like a WHOOOSHing noise and I was so confused...so I opened up my blinds and to my surprise there was a hot air balloon outside. I fumbled for my camera and this is the view from my bedroom window. The picture hardly does the closeness of the balloon justice. It was something that you just don't expect every Saturday morning in Provo.
A few hours later Katherine and I were in the grocery store in the greeting card isle looking for a birthday card for our mom and this younger woman comes up to us and asks us if we had ever seen the High School Musical movies and if we had liked them. We told her that we had seen them and that yes we enjoyed them. She then proceeded to tell us that she was a casting agent for some company that worked with Disney and what not and was looking for fresh faces to come in and audition to be in some upcoming movies. Katherine and I just started to laugh and informed her that acting was not a skill that we possessed. She was fairly persistent but relented as Katherine and I just continued to laugh. We left the isle without a birthday card and in stitches. It was but 5 minutes later that this younger man approaches us in the spice isle and asks us if we had ever seen the High School Musical movies and if we liked them. We told him that we had already spoken with the other lady in the card isle and he asked us if we were "in". We sadly told him no that we were not interested. He did tell us that we were very pretty and just the thing that they were looking for though. Its not every day that you get asked twice to be in a movie. I guess we will never know if I could have been the next Vanessa Hudgens or Ashley Tisdale staring opposite Zac Efron. What a dream boat.