WORK WORK WORK!

Things move along in our lives. I am working full time for 2-5 months at Passavant Hospital in the ER. Passavant is a mid-size medical facility in the Cranberry area of Pittsburgh, very nice neighborhood with a lot of retired and working professionals. The ER I am working in takes all trauma but the main flow is residential type of accidents and emergency work(Fx hips, pneumonias, arms and legs type injuries) I like the department because I just stay in the ER doing patients and all their imaging is digital(computerized filming). This is really fast imaging, shooting the images and then transferring them all to the computer for reading across the system. The crew here is very young so they take good care of the "old man" and I get a lot of respect(says Rodney Dangerfield). I will be here probably for some time and then as always I will get another assignment to another facility belonging to the UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) group. We had a lot of fractures today and I am always so sympathetic to the geriatric group and the young kids. I had a patient the other day, a three year old that was asleep on the mothers chest, as she laid on the guerney and we did the whole study while the youngster slept on the mothers chest. The mom really appreciated my doing it that way(of course I covered her up with a lead apron). I drop Rita off at her office and then drive on to work(about 20 minutes further) and then reversed the procedure that evening. It works out good for us and we both are enjoying the work we have. I thought I would be done doing this kind of work but like many retired professionals you miss it after a while. I decided as long as they want me to work I will continue to work and as long as Rita is working. It is fun not having to make the management decisions anymore and just do patients. "That, that, that"s all folks" for now.