ICU & JP

ICU:
I had my first overnight call in the ICU last night. Similar to my first call in the CCU last year, there was no break, up for 30 hours. Although, it wasn't really that bad, and the only thing I didn't like was being so freaking tired.. I dare even say it was nice to be able to think for myself a bit, and then be able to page my senior resident when I needed help. I'm working with a resident in my med-peds class, and we're committed to having some fun at work. Yes, it is possible to have fun in the ICU.

JP:
Ready for some fucking depressing news? We have a diagnosis. It took 5 months for this horrible disease process to wreak enough damage in her brain to show some changes on MRI, and now the disease entity has a name, JP has a diagnosis to explain what's been going on. A disease which carries a fatal prognosis-in 2-5 years. And NO QUALITY OF LIFE til then. Dear god help this mom who will lose one child tomorrow and another one in the near future.

-B