Sometimes...

"You wanna be where everybody knows your name." Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart Angelo, Cheers theme song



Around the Hotel, it's a little like Cheers. We have lots of people who come to see us...over and over. We're not just a Hotel, really, but also an office building, as our clinics and offices are in the same hospital complex. So we really do see people, coming and going.

Today's admission is a regular. If he could sit on a bar stool, he'd be like Norm with one reserved for him and if he drank, a cold one waiting. Alas, NotNorm doesn't drink and he's just staying for a short time with us for a procedure, then going home. NN managed to arrive bright and early for his admission and he regaled everyone with his recent adventures, which also included a near-miss with heavy traffic in his neighborhood, due to a wheelchair gone awry.

When he wasn't keeping the natives in stitches, NN also gave our new resident fits, because he/she was worried about his skin due to a number of moles. So Dr. G. came down to check out NN, and point out to the resident, that those moles were actually seborrheic keratoses. On top of it, Dr. G. complimented my notes while he/she was in the room.  It's nice to hear compliments, when everyone else is giving you a load, literally and figuratively.


Our Manglement has decided that nursing may not be paid expenses to attend conferences, even when invited or selected on the conference curriculum as faculty. We can get approved absence from work, but no travel expense payment. This won't stop our leader and a few cronies from attending (their expenses are from a different pool), but as nurses, we've been told we can only go if we pay our own way. Traveling partner and I have some ideas, but we've basically resorted to checking with a few resources with our hats off and hands out. We'll see how it goes, since apparently the old maxim is true: no good deed goes unpunished.

So off I go to prepare the "Can you help us?" letters, since standing out on a curb with a cardboard sign is really just too hard since it's hot here right now. Thank goodness I have years of experience selling stuff!

Want to send two really interesting nurses to a conference and see your name on their suits as they present? E-mail us!

(Not really, but it's a start...not sure if any NASCAR people are showing up to this conference.)

Stay tuned...I may have to think up a blog-a-thon, if the letter writing campaign is unsuccessful.