Reliving Emergency New Years

I quite simply cannot say it any better than I did last year, so I shall post this yet again. Have a wonderful and SAFE New Year's my blogland friends.

EMERGENCY NEW YEARS
-By Running Wildly


Twas the night before New Years, and all through emerg, all the patients were stirring with drunks on the verge.

The IV's were all hung on the poles with such care, in hopes their dehydration would soon become rare. 

The elderly were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sleeping pills danced in their heads.

The docs in their scrub tops and I in mine too, were ready to take on the drunks two by two.

When out in the hallway there arose such a clatter, and I sprang from the nurse's station to see what was the matter.

Away to the stretcher I flew like a flash, Screamed out a "CODE WHITE" and restrained them so fast.

To what did my wondering eyes should appear, but a drunkard who'd OD'd on *something* with no fear!

With a little ol' Haldol and eight muscular aids, I knew in a moment we were preventing a raid.

More rapid than eagles the crazies they came, I heard triage whistle & shout and call them by name,"On crazy, on druggie, on chest pain and vag bleed, on vomit, on sepsis, on x-ray and I-just-peed. To the beds of emerg to the patients of all, now go away, go away, go away all!"

The patients didn't listen to triage's words and they came not in singles, no, they came but in HERDS.

So to the department those patients they went, with backpacks of booze, cigarettes and 'odd scents.'

And then in a twinkling I heard in the hall, the prancing of crazies demanding it all.

As I drew in my head and was turning around down the hallway more chest pains came in with a bound.

Their skin oh so paley and short of breath, too. I knew it'd be a long night through and through.

Nurses spoke not a word and went straight to their work, inserting IV's although patient's arms would jerk.

We laid a finger aside of our nose, and wished our patients would smell like a rose.

Instead, we held our breath hard and treated them well. And gave them a meal with a fancy call bell.

At the end of the night away they all flew and new ones came in, because that's what they do.

I walked out the door and I drove out of sight saying,

"Happy New Years to all......and to all a good FRIGGEN night."