The "Swine Flu" has been a big thing around here. Lots of people have come in, concerned they have it, and there's a whole process for getting them masks and in respiratory isolation. I don't know if/how many of them actually had it... probably not all that many, fortunately, but it's still exciting. If something serious ever did come around, the ER would be where everything got done. It's a bit scary, but pretty exciting too. I'd like to be a part of it.
People who think they have Swine Flu have stopped coming in as much, but something else came in today - a bird. People were chasing him around the ER to try and get him back outside (or out of the ER, at the very least). Once the bird got into the waiting room, some patients got upset. It had been a crowded day, and we'd been telling them how all the medical staff was busy (which was true). It's hard to explain how all the medical staff is busy when it 1/5 of them seem to be out in the waiting room trying to hunt a bird though. (The bird was safely taken outside eventually, after we trapped it in a towel.)
Speaking of the waiting room, it got a fantastic (and overdue, imo) renovation. The ER is still in the progress of getting renovated. I'm definitely more proud to be around there now; it's amazing what a few small changes can do.
My math studying is still in progress. It's slowed down some - not because I've been working less: I've been working much more, in fact - but because it's starting to be "real" math, instead of the other stuff that was much easier to review. Some of it I still have a few problems with, but some of it is kind of neat. I've been working with logarithms and natural logs lately, and remember that they used to give me trouble back in high school. Those things make perfect sense now, though, which is kind of cool.
I said I'd take the placement test in May, but I might try and push it off even a bit more. Hopefully I'll do well (enough) on it. What happens after that... we'll see.
