Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 14

[westmex]

Is that what you have now???? My daughhter has a similiar rig....

.....Westy......

[Windshark]

Do you miss it? It seems a shame to let that experience go to waste.

[Conservababe]

I meant to say that I placed those things on her desk.

[Conservababe]

Hi Westy...no, I do not have one now. I used to have one years ago and am shopping for another one. What kind does your daughter have.

[westmex]

I posted a whole string of pics of me growing up...It has all been seen before.....

......Westy......

[Conservababe]

Yes, I miss it sometimes. But, to tell the truth...I don't miss the responsibility. For one year of education solely dedicated to respiratory management...I had a lot on my shoulders, as other allied health care workers.

Ventilator management, intubations, Code Blues, ER traumas...etc.

Just a question out of curiosity...are you a specified organ donor?

[Mo1]

I'm taking it, you needed new underwear .. *L*

Good Grief .. that would have scared the day lights out of me

[Conservababe]

Westy, I don't want to see the pics of you in knickers again...I want you to post one of you in your uniform in WWII. Did I miss it? LOL

[Windshark]

No....my organs have too much adrenaline in them.

*Bad joke*

I've never considered it.

[Windshark]

Thinking back, I probably should have.

I actually think I have a gene from the Indian bridge walkers. I used to have no fear of heights, and even now, just slightly. I also have always been able to deal with intense situations with quickness and calmness.

You want me or someone like me next to you in an emergency.

[Mo1]

I use to be like that .. but then I went and had kids

[Windshark]

;-)

*L*

That'll do it every time......

[westmex]

I'm the joker on the right...

.....Westy.....

[westmex]

What kind does your daughter have.I have no idea the make....It looks about like the pic you posted....

.....Westy.....

[westmex]

Here is another..Taken after the war, when I got married

.....Westy.....

[Conservababe]

Well, this was one of my duties as a Respiratory Therapist.

Organ donar on the vent in ICU. Papers signed by family. Transport team is here for echo testing. I take him off the vent and bag him (breathe him) through the transport and procedure. Back in ICU, put patient back on the vent. Two neuroligists here and sign that patient is brain dead. Primary physician arrives and signs the death certificate. In all legal matters, this is when the patient died.

But, the deceased still needs care. I and nurses must maintain the corpse. He is still on the ventilator and I must manage his blood gases in the normal range. Nursing does the same in their duties. You see, the body is still alive, even if he has been declared dead.

Finally, the retrieval team from Texas arrives. They congratulate us on our work. Then they go to scrub. The transport team arrives. I disconnect the ventilator and bag the corpse to the OR around the corner. The anethesiolist takes over at the door.

I walk back and resume my other duties.

[Mo1]

OMG!!! ... Could ya put a warning next time

That picture is scary

[Windshark]

Too much information...L0L...

My brother has this deep fear that someone might get harvested just a tad early by a zealous meical worker.

Kind of like in the movie when Warren Beatty was removed (mistakenly) from his body by an angel too scared to watch the gore.

Call me fearful when it's not an emergency!

[Conservababe]

Westy...

You look a lot like that spiffy George Bush, the former president, in that picture.

[Windshark]

Gotta go get some sleep.

Go ahead, give Mike some sympathy......he'll need it tonight.

Sleep well.

Gnightall.