Nothing and Everything

DISNEY + TRIVIA

Hospitalized patients in my county are up by 84 today.  In 1 day.  We keep getting more and the ones we have can’t leave.  These are all things that happened to me today in case management that caused discharge delays.

* A patient without covid needs a heart cath.  We can’t do that at my hospital.  Our larger sister hospital in the company that does has no beds and even if they did has no nurses to take the transfer.  Docs are now deciding if she will be ok at home until they can schedule her for the procedure or if she needs to stay on the tele monitor at our hospital and we keep trying every day until we get lucky.

*A patient with covid who is doing well but needs low-level oxygen.  We tried to wean fully a few times but his O2 level quickly drops. They do fine on 2L (this happens so much with the covid pts it really extends hospital stay) so we get an order for home O2.  Pt has no insurance.  Luckily we have a company that is providing free home O2 for covid + for 3 months. Unluckily they are so overwhelmed with requests it takes 2-3 days for them to process and deliver.   

*Covid + patient not on oxygen.  But who rents a room and has lingering weakness and no one to help them at home.  Happily, their insurance agrees to a short term SNF placement.  Unhappily every SNF in the area that is taking covid + patients is full.  We will try again tomorrow.

*Covid - patient after hip fx surgery.  Needs to go to SNF for rehab. Unhappily every SNF in the area that is taking covid - patients is full.  We will try again tomorrow.These are all stable patients who are stuck taking up beds because of the gridlock covid is causing in all areas of health care.  

Fluffy face 😍 

No, it was “one person went to work at 8 or 9, came home at 5 or 6; ate food, paid bills, watched tv, celebrated birthdays with parties, and so on.”

And a couple-few times a year, they all went on a modest vacation, like a weekend visit to relatives in a nearby state and visited an amusement park while they were there. Also, in summer they went to the state fair - all 5 of them - maybe a couple of times. The went out to movies a couple times a month, but maybe not all 5 at once, because everyone wanted to see different movies.”

That wasn’t the exotic “livin’ the dream” lifestyle. That was the boring-humdrum what-everyone-does lifestyle.

Source: Chainsaw Man / Chensō Man / チェンソーマン

Project: Arthropoda Iconicus Series: Timorpersonae

by Richard Wilkinson 

The three Fates sharing an eye.

Hades’ flaming hair. 

The various designs of the mythological monsters and titans.

The diverse faces and body types of all the minor characters.

And the opening sequence

Bakugou: Prevented a murder.

Deku, starry-eyed: Kacchan is amazing! How did he do that!?

[Flashback to Mina, Sero and Denki arguing over whether the Earth was a planet]