Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Refashioned tights


One of my the blogs I follow  is ReFashionista. The blogs author takes thrift store rejects and re-fashions them into like real wearable items. An inspiration, if only I had her creativity.
This is a simple re-fashion. Yoga tights that un-fashionably flared at the bottom copied to be like my Lulus. Obviously they are not the same as they are not cut the same but for around the house they are getting way more wear then wide legs.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

2013 in Books

As with everything sometimes I read more and sometimes I read less. Lately I have been starting books and realising that life is to short to read something that does not bring joy, or I feel that in my limited English skills I could write better. I continue to use Good reads... most of the time, thus this list does not reflect all I have read over the year.

Ella Enchanted


The Imposter Bride
 
I finally got around to reading this modern day classic, it was a good story. Rather depressing, although I did feel the end was worth it. one particular line will always stay with me. Went something like '.....did you not realise that because of you all of our lives changed forever.' That one line was the point of the book.

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Heard a interview on the CBC with the author and would you not know it, it was at library that same day! Basically the point is how to score a hotel deal. Interesting.

 
Freshman: Tales of 9th Grade Obsessions, Revelations, and Other Nonsense
 
Medical ethical dilemma, family history etc. Worth the read.
 
On the Island
 
 
 
Very interesting read about how I will never live, especially since my lottery numbers never seem to be the right ones.

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Graphic novel that seems to keep on being checked out by Maya again and again. It is about food.

 The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
 

Friday, January 10, 2014

Baby Boy Blizzard


 
Well the worst happened.
 
In the small hospital I work at , there is a time I dread like no other. A snow storm. A snow storm when the roads are closed and we are shut off from the outside world. When help can not reach us nor can we go for help. This means that the staff that are in the building at it, no call ins. This means that we can not send patients out to larger centres who require medical interventions we can not do.
Thus we are, and what we have on hand is it.
 
It is a fine balance. Extensive training for a medical event that you nay never see? The cost of supplies that may never be used?
 
During this past weeks blizzard. All the roads were shut down, plows were pulled and all was quiet. Until the dispatch phone rang. There was a woman in labour outside of town. The ambulance just couldn't get to another hospital, they barely made it to the patient,  the woman have to come here.
I am the ER nurse and thus she would be my responsibly. I had recently been re-certified in Neonatal Resuscitation, and attend an obstetrical  skills day every couple years. However, the last birth I attended was when I delivered Ever. I had never witnessed labour and delivery nursing care as I had the midwives attend my children's births. The physician I was working with had not done any obstetrical care in years and the other nurse was ruster than I...... and that was our medical team.
 
I am the first to say that a normal vaginal birth in a low risk woman is not a medical event. However, the unexpected can occur, and at that point the training of the team of midwives/ nurses/ physicians who have training comes into play. At this low risk delivery the unexpected could not happen.
 
The woman laboured without pain medical as we could not take the risk of any complications related. She laboured as the winds blew and snow kept on falling down. I, along the the physician had been reading topics obstetrical  all night in preparation About five in the morning she was getting tired. She wasn't progressing. I was getting worried. So I got her up 'to use the commode'. Really I just wanted her to start contracting while standing and let gravity to do some work. Within a minute, she yelled the baby was coming. My ungloved hand reached down and felt head and I screamed for help. The babe was born a few pushes later, with an  immeaditite cry, and honestly I do not know who was more overjoyed the parents or I.