BUSH DIARY FEBRUARY 1998:
No room at the Inn: The hospital has a two drawer morgue in the back hallway. We are full up. We had a suicide in Wainwright. Someone coded in ER earlier this week. Wednesday I overheard one of the nurses calling around to various entities in town asking about freezer space because another body was coming at 8 pm. Also we had an inpatient die of terminal CA and still had the space problem. That patient is at NARL somewhere in one of their large capacity freezers.
We have had whiteout conditions for two days and no one is anxious to go out and dig graves. For graves here in Barrow there is a very large machine that is essentially a trencher, it chews through ice and tundra and does a very good job. Same machine is used for laying underground power lines, gas lines and sewer lines.
I was fortunate on the death certificates I had to complete as family was available and very helpful in both cases.
Clinton joke: Bill Clinton and the Pope both died at the same time. There was a terrible mix up. Bill was admitted to Heaven and the Pope went to Hell. The mistake was discovered and both parties were brought to the Pearly Gates for the exchange. St. Peter apologies all over himself telling the Pope how sorry he wa that he was sent to Hell by mistake and to make up for it he would personally introduce the Pope to the Virgin Mary. Bill Clinton muttered, "Oops."
February was a short month. Brrr.
G'night folks.
No room at the Inn: The hospital has a two drawer morgue in the back hallway. We are full up. We had a suicide in Wainwright. Someone coded in ER earlier this week. Wednesday I overheard one of the nurses calling around to various entities in town asking about freezer space because another body was coming at 8 pm. Also we had an inpatient die of terminal CA and still had the space problem. That patient is at NARL somewhere in one of their large capacity freezers.
We have had whiteout conditions for two days and no one is anxious to go out and dig graves. For graves here in Barrow there is a very large machine that is essentially a trencher, it chews through ice and tundra and does a very good job. Same machine is used for laying underground power lines, gas lines and sewer lines.
I was fortunate on the death certificates I had to complete as family was available and very helpful in both cases.
Clinton joke: Bill Clinton and the Pope both died at the same time. There was a terrible mix up. Bill was admitted to Heaven and the Pope went to Hell. The mistake was discovered and both parties were brought to the Pearly Gates for the exchange. St. Peter apologies all over himself telling the Pope how sorry he wa that he was sent to Hell by mistake and to make up for it he would personally introduce the Pope to the Virgin Mary. Bill Clinton muttered, "Oops."
February was a short month. Brrr.
G'night folks.
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