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There's a room on one of the teams where, when the facilities guys pulled the baseboard off to see why the paint was bubbling off the wall, they discovered that the whole structure behind the baseboard was an ant hill. Makes me a little uncomfortable....I'm thinkin....if that's the case in this room......it might be the case elsewhere....ant tunnels and chambers turning the studs into lacework....and millions of ants....swarming, crawling, eating.... I'm picturing in my mind's eye a building, turning into particles, falling into dust...kind of like when they blew up that hotel in Las Vegas on New Years Eve...only it's the hospital...and it's not explosives, it's ants.....KA WUMPF!!! and it's just a pile of plaster-dust and ants; and the patients still in their beds from upstairs now mingled with the patients downstairs, the staff with dust on their eyebrows and lashes...
Don't you wonder if the pipes are going to burst in the cottages again in this cold?
No one's ever bothered to replace the cupboard door in the kitchen that finally just fell off about two years ago.
There was a code red alarm and our pagers didn't go off. No idea what happened there, but we all agreed that "the alarm system is down again" was the most likely explanation...that's been going on so long now that we pretty much assume that there isn't one...an alarm system, I mean. We knew there was a code red because we had nurses from other places running through our unit.
All the glucometers were recalled. Somebody's trying to come up with a weekend plan for how to deal with our many, many diabetics sans glucometers...(and, hold on, why is it again that we have so many diabetics?)........
And the eternal weekend crunch to find enough staff somehow, somewhere to cover the hospital goes on....
Tired, uninspired, and surrounded by manics, the staff soldiers on...not even imagining victory anymore.
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You asked why do we have so many diabetics ????? Well that is part of the life cyce with the new medications that the patients are on......You take the meds the majors side effect is..... eat eat eat..... The food that is available is carbs.....carbs.....carbs...So you eat all these carbs, you are stuck on a locked unit you get very little exercise and you too become a diabetic.....
Ants ?........ "Good Grief....Charlie Brown..." What is the state runnig here...Mold Ants no hot water what will it be next ??????
What else you ask?? What about the mice?? I hear reports about mice running through the kitchen.
Call Facilities.....Star
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