Latest photos...

August...my mother came up to visit and I took some photos from the Hot Metal Bridge while out on a bike ride.

September...We installed my new lamp and Flor rug (my birthday present from Eric) so that my office is now usable and quite nice!

October...we visited Parkersburg and went for a hike (which Marty loved!).

Help me figure out what the mystery machines are...the park used to be a working farm 50 yrs ago.

November: I'll be going to San Diego and Minneapolis...hopefully more photos to follow.

Kids...

I just finished my 2nd week of my pediatric rehab rotation. So far it has been interesting. I can really see that I am not pediatric rehab material...I have a hard time figuring out what to do with the kids even though I enjoy playing with them. The latest thing that has made me laugh though was seeing a child with ADHD and Asperger's last week. He was about 10 years old, very small for his age, but intellectually precocious. While I was trying to get him to focus on muscle testing his lower limbs, he suddenly pointed both fingers to either side of his groin and said, "Hey, what are these?" I think my jaw dropped about a yard. Then I said something like, "Do you mean your testicles? On either side of your penis? They'll be really important some day if you ever want to have kids," while keeping a straight face. He then told me that was what his mother told him they were called too...I think he was just testing her, but the rest of the story was that he had been wrestling at school and was hit in the groin (so a very understandable question). She was very flustered about it too, but I didn't want to discourage his question. The situation (and my reaction) made me smile to think about it for days afterward, it was just so darn unexpected and funny.

My niece, Clare's christening...the whole family made it!

Wow! It's been a looong time since I posted. Lots of good intentions, but lots going on too. Here are some photos showing a few things I've been up to over the summer-fall...









Went to the beach (at Chincoteague) in July with Eric . Rode our bikes to the beach every day and enjoyed our very own two-person hammock on the deck outside our room at the B&B.








Oh, and built Mt. Kristi....a smoking volcano preparing to destroy the temple built at it's foot.


Went to the Middle Mtn Cabins in WV with Marty & Eric for a weekend camping trip. . . beautiful out there, but forgot to take the camera with us for most of the adventures. My fella sure can build a fire though! The girl scout in me was proud...




Can't find the photos of my nieces...but I'll put them up soon.



Eric gave me a carbon-fiber road bike for my birthday this year...it's really lovely, and fits me sooo much better than my old one.

My New Baby!

A present from my sweet lovin' man:

my first fixed-gear bike.

Light and free I pedal

Legs pump cool air flows

I grin- love at first ride.

Newest Edition...

to the family: my new niece, Clare! I just got back from visiting my brother, his wife--Diana, and their daughter Clare, who is about one month old. She's a cutie, when she's not screaming! Starting back to work tomorrow on my first rehab rotation: the spinal cord injury unit. Wish me luck!

Another Clare photo:

Narcan to the rescue!

My last long call, I had a little old lady patient who came in with pancreatitis. As usual, they gave her some i.v. pain medication in the emergency dept...0.3mg of dilaudid. That might not seem like much, especially 1.5 hrs later, when it is supposed to be wearing off....at least, that's how it seemed to me. So, when she started breathing "funny," per her daughter and not responding very well, my first response was to call for an arterial blood gas and glucose levels. Both of which were relatively unenlightening, though she did not squirm at all during the abg sticks (1st was unproductive). Thank goodness for my upper-level resident, Super-Barbara, who came to the rescue (as I was about to ask about moving the patient to a higher-grade bed) and ordered the Narcan. What a wonderful drug! About fifteen seconds and she started to wake up! I was very relieved...felt a bit stupid, but at least I learned something.