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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on January 14, 2013 at 11:54am

And a super warm and yummy breakfast to fill all of your tummies... even if some of you are already on lunch for today - the sentiment still applies....

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on January 14, 2013 at 11:53am

Hot Cocoa for everyone 

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on January 14, 2013 at 11:50am

Hey everyone - sorry I have been MIA for so long... So much to do... so little time to do it...

Hope you all are well.... So glad to see some new members have joined.... and glad to see some seasoned members are still wandering through on occasion :)

Time to think of a new seasonal handle - since it is 20 F degrees here in Southern California - which compels a WTH ??? I have to think of something temperature appropriate :)

Comment by Dan Rothermel on January 2, 2013 at 1:33pm

Hello All,

I received an email asking for additional photos of my Bar, highlighted in "The backroom Crew" web page. Here is a link to a photo album of the work it took to get the project done. Thanks to all that helped and share the love of "The Scope"  

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1659352199634.90118.11120...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 24, 2012 at 4:53pm

:'-(

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 24, 2012 at 4:53pm

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 24, 2012 at 2:55am

oh yeah and I forgot to mention - her spouse was at a nursing training on the opposite side of our campus and came running across campus to the ER to meet the ambulance - and the spouse fell down a concrete flight of stairs... so the spouse was beat to hell as well........

OMG....

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 24, 2012 at 2:54am

So this is getting long-winded perhaps I need to pick up the pace.

Ambulance arrived, and since they were literally 1 block from the ER, the mom pressed to have the baby immediately transported, which put her care aside (which of course pissed me off when I found this out - but probably the same decision I would make for my baby).

I was at work when it happened. I found out 7 hours later and arrived at the hospital 7 hours later - to which I found out that ONLY the baby ever had received care in those 7 hours - NO ONE still had triaged or provided patient care to the mom.... SOOOOO I WENT APE ON THE HOSPITAL STAFF !!!

Yes, you read that correctly the MOM - who was hit by a car - was inside the hospital for 7 HOURS - untreated!

Ironically, I happened to have my EMS jacket on, since it was chilly outside, which apparently gave me a lot of credibility in the ER, plus, they finally started to figure out that all of us where "one of their own - from their school - and the spouse is a OB nurse at this very hospital".

So I spent the next 24 hours schooling the staff to get proper patient care for the mom..... 

yes - someone dared to say to us "why don't you go wait in the waiting room" .......... UH NO !!!!   This mom was hit by a car - 7 hours ago - i assure you NO ONE IS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR 1 MORE MINUTE !!!!!!

LONG STORY - anyway... finally.... we starting getting layers of the trauma teams to evaluate her... and 12 HOURS AFTER THE ACCIDENTS - the SENIOR trauma team came to see her... and said "why is she not backboarded and collared.... do it NOW!!!"  (which of course was a big duh !!! for me - yes, why was this trauma patient not treated like a trauma patient!!!!)

anyway, I could rant for a while...

end result - they collared her - and kept her in it on spinal precaution for another 24 hours... they scanned her entire body twice... and did an ultrasound on every organ.. WHY, TWICE... since the senior trauma felt the ER staff and 1st trauma did not do their jobs sufficiently - again DUH !!!  

Final outcome - mom was found to have no broken bones and no destroyed organs. Shocking...  Covered in bruises from head to toe... road rash shredded bloody raw on the side of her body that slammed the pavement... and bashed joints from head to toe - every joint ... even the top of her feet were bruised. The doctor said if she would have been wearing sandals instead of full shoes that covered her feet and ankles - that the bumper of the vehicle would have ripped her feet right off her :/

So mom and baby are recovering - long and painful....

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 24, 2012 at 1:51am

So the mom got hit twice - by the car, then slammed onto the ground - so her entire body is beat to hell. She hit her head on the car and on the pavement.

The baby seems to have dumped out of the backpack and landed first on his little but then hit his head - so yes - your worse fears are realized - SKULL FRACTURE - BRAIN BLEEDING AND BRAIN SWELLING....   So scary, the baby's head swelled huge - and God Be Praised  - he is on his way to a recovery!...  God only knows how much it messed up the rest of his life, since it is now considered a "traumatic brain injury" so the doctors already referred him to disability services to monitor development, mental retardation, learning disabilities, etc. etc. etc. that severe brain trauma can cause... in a previously perfectly healthy newborn :'-(

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 24, 2012 at 1:20am

So Veteran's Day - the week before Thanksgiving - my best friend and her newborn (11 wk old) were hit by a car while walking across the street around the corner from my house on my university campus... Thank God they both lived... but it was touch and go for a while... This has taken up the last 6 weeks of my time pretty steadily (plus work & school, etc.).

So a 17 yr old girl driving a Tracker, hit them, in a cross-walk, in the middle of a clear day. She was not texting or on her phone or drinking/drugging, just didn't see them (young driver an all). So the police did not press charges just considered it an accident. Thank God that the girl stopped at a stop sign before turning into the intersection, which meant she was going between 10-20 mph, which is probably the only reason they lived.

So literally this accident happened 1 block from our hospital/university - a top trauma hospital in the world (especially top pediatric hospital) and the person literally in the car behind the accident was an ER doctor - so he was able to assess both mother and baby while they were still on the concrete, before the ambulance arrived.

So the car hit the mom in her left hip area - driver front corner. The mom was wearing the baby in one of the baby backpacks on her chest. The car hitting her flipped her up over the hood and down over the driver's door onto the pavement. When she flipped upside down over the driver's door the baby fell out of the backpack on the mom's chest and smashed onto the pavement roadway.

Idiot driver got out of the car - saw them both on the pavement - and asked, "can I go know?" (totally oblivious to how serious the situation was - and her responsibility for the injuries).. to which my friend was screaming at her "call 911"

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