My first job after college was working in a dermatology practice in DC. I mostly did the insurance paperwork but the docs wanted each of us to know how to do each other's jobs in case someone was sick, so I helped sometimes with minor surgeries too also. No big, right...until my mom came in to have a cyst removed from her shoulder. The doc asked if I would help him, so I prepped the tray and helped her into the gown. It was like I was the mom for a while.

I fainted dead away the minute he made his cut and I saw her blood.

* stolen from a post by JT8 on another forum, and here's one from 7rob7:


The Squildo... NSFW.

Link for anyone who wants to order one.

Realist!!

One of our surgeons was performing a gastro-intestinal procedure when she came across a foreign looking lump inside the patient's abdominal cavity (turned out to be a lipoma). She poked at it with a scalpel and some of the fatty fluid from inside the lipoma shot under the rim of her glasses, right into her eye.

It was pretty gnarly.

Thank you for sharing.

Excitment down the street:

SWAT Called to SMU for Man on a Crane
Unknown if man has a gun or not

Anybody in favor of a "Gross Stuff Goes Here" thread?

Really, there is a lot of good (and funny) stuff in this thread that I don't want to miss, but my tender sensibilities just can't handle some things these days. I've been-there-done-that with all of the gross things nurses see and I just don't wanna anymore.

If anyone agrees with me I will start a thread (or anyone else is free to). Or am I just too sensitive?

If you still live on Earth, you should see this movie. Netflix has it for the big screen, but the entire movie is on YouTube.

My all time favorite is a dental abscess on an upper. Big pouch of "stuff"....Just thinking of it makes me gag.

I spent my day Wedding Dress shopping with my future daughter-in-law, her mom, sister, and the best man Kym. It was really a LOT of fun... Dress after dress after dress.

And this is the one she chose....



My son bought his suit yesterday, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm told it's a Calvin Klein slim fit light grey with a white shirt and he'll have a dark green tie. (She wants her girls in silver and green)

I know I'm gonna cry, I almost cry just thinking about it.

Congrats, MsDaisy (& family)!

Nothing new to report. The street is still blocked and DPD hasn't released any more info.

And to think, Santorum was worried about Man on Dog.

I cut my finger on tinfoil tonight. When I showed Listeme, she said, "You are a true warrior against the crazy!"

Why would she say that? The tinfoil won.

You know I cant think of another place to put this, but I have to say if I didn't have this mouse thing going this would soooo be my avatar. It fits me so well when I get angry at stupidity. Probably others here too

Our AC decided to quit yesterday. I didn't notice at first, oddly enough. I noticed that I was uncomfortable, but I figured, gosh, maybe I'm getting older and less tolerant of the heat. Then our two (young) dogs were panting, in the evening, and still it didn't occur to me that it was the AC. Finally about 9:30 I thought to see if it had been turned up or something.

It's 10 am now and they will come out "sometime after 2 pm" and I'm a whiny person. Poor Verbie. At least the fans are loud enough to drown me out.

Jeez, girlfriend, go play in the sprinklers!

It's a well-known fact: All HVAC equipment is programmed to conk out on holidays.

Sigh.

Bob Dylan's getting his Medal of Freedom award inside the white house, wearing steelrimmed shades.

I voted early for our primary today. I even got a little sticker that says "I Voted Early". They're in little slots on the validation machine. I would have preferred a sucker or bubble gum or sumpin', but I'll take it.

The fact I voted early is nothing to write about, but the experience is IMO.

In my county (and I don't know if any other county in the state is doing so) this year there are 69 added poll locations, and one can vote at the one most convenient. You don't have to vote at your designated voting place for your precinct. Pretty cool.

Enneyway, I walked in (was the only voter in the place with about 50 little voting "booths" and 10-12 workers). I walked up to the "The Line Begins Here" lady and she asked if I needed a sample ballot. I said no, I'm ready to vote. She then sent me to the nice elderly lady with a computer in front of her.

She asked my last name, which I gave and spelled, then for my birth date, which I provided. She then asked me to verbally give her my full name, birth date, and address, which I did. She then told me the address I gave her was not the one in their records. She then asked my prior address, and I actually remembered it, but then told her I'd re-registered 8 years ago when I moved to my present address. She asked if I wanted to go ahead and vote based on the old address, which was in the same precinct, so I said yes. She gave me the ballot and I voted, then stuck it in the validation machine, it went through, I got my little sticker.

I then walked back to the line begins here lady and 'splained to her I had a problem with my address not being current, when I'd re-registered eight years ago when I moved. She said, "We've had a lot of that." She asked if I was receiving mail from the clerk about voting dates, etc., and the new vote wherever you want stuff, etc. I replied yep, got one just Friday. That's how I knew this location was here and very convenient.

I then asked what I needed to do to correct the problem, and the answer is... re-register. Which worked so great last time. NOT. But I took the form and I will.

When I got home I went on the clerk's website and checked my voter info, and shur enuf it lists my prior address, yet (after checking the envelope in which I received the voter info on Friday) it was mailed to my current and correct address.

It's a pickle. But I'll re-register and see what happens come general election time. But I will check the info on the web between re-registering and the general.

And just so ya know, Obama was the only candidate on the ballot for prezidink as a Democrat, so I suspect he'll win. Apparently none of the 5 objections which were filed here were successful in keeping him off or having him removed from the primary ballot. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Daniels' FOAD letter musta been sufficient.

I don't know. That sounds awfully Liberal and ripe for Voter Fraud.

The last time I got the "I Voted" sticker they stuck it on my arm (I was in a spaghetti strap top and the old guy was being very circumspect) and I got a perfect red circle that itched for a week. At least I was only allergic to the adhesive and not the process.

I think this is one reason central air conditioning (aircon, in localspeak) is very usual in private housing here (district cooling is becoming very common, but for commercial buildings). In a country where it's founding father called air conditioning the most important invention of the 20th century, almost every home today has at least two aircon units (my little 1200 sq ft place has five). When one breaks inevitably breaks down, there's always a back-up.