I’ve been waiting and waiting for Emma to smile. She’s an inquisitive little thing, and loves to study anything and everything that crosses her path (the waitress at the Mexican joint we went to for lunch was veeery interesting to her) but she hasn’t been smiling.
Chloe, of course, has been grinning at anyone/everyone for weeks, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Girl Smiley
Posted in Chloe, Emma on January 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Crybaby
Posted in Emma on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Does it make me a horrible parent that I let Emma cry tonight for about 10 minutes at being put to bed?
I know that her cry was the “I want to be re-binked endlessly or better yet held for hours while I sleep” cry, rather than the “something’s really wrong like a crocodile gnawing on my leg” [...]
Dark Cloud
Posted in Work on January 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I worked the last two nights, and I swear I had a dark cloud over my head. I use the age & sex of the patient, plus the chief complaint (all visible on our tracking board) to decide whether the patient’s an appropriate acuity patient for me as a PA (with three docs available.) Our [...]
Schadenfreude Pie
Posted in Domesticity on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Doesn’t that just sound like something I should be baking?
Here’s the link. If someone bakes this before I get around to it, post your review.
Bye Bye Bottle
Posted in Chloe, Emma, Lactation on January 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
That’s right, we’re throwing out the bottles! Metaphorically speaking, that is. They’ll keep using them for feedings when I’m at work, but as of today it’s 100% breastfeeding, all the time. When they were discharged from the NICU, I was instructed to feed two feedings per day of supplemented milk (they wanted me to use [...]
An Early Feminist Speaks
Posted in Politics on January 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, [...]
Four Years
Posted in Random on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy 4th Blogiversary to me.
Here’s to 4 more!
Medical Clearance
Posted in Work on January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We frequently do something in the ER called medical clearance. Some other agency (the jail, the psych unit down the road, the police) sends us a person that they believe is pretty much OK for their services, but something about him/her makes them tetchy.
For instance, I had a patient the other night who’d taken (drumroll [...]
Inauguration
Posted in Politics on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The cast of characters was pretty much as expected. The speech fit the usual inaugural mode. The poetry was hideous as usual, and the prayers were characteristic of those delivering them.
The only interesting things to me were:
Is it Cheney, or Mr. Potter?
And Aretha’s awesome hat. The hat was my personal favorite part of the entire [...]
Recipe
Posted in Random on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Two sleeping infants + diet pepsi + Simon Baker + queso fresco = one very pleasant evening.
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