BUSH DIARY MARCH 1997:
3-2: Got up early because the next door neighbor was in her bathroom tuning up her smoker's cough. I like doing wash early Sunday morning, usually have the place to myself unless someone is sleeping it off in a warm spot. Only mishap has been the instance in which a neighbor quickly started a load of wash before I had entirely emptied the washer of my tattier unmentionables. I explained the problem and the gentleman allowed me to extract my delicates from his far studier wash load. Phew!!
Official renaming ceremony. ASNA has decided to rename the hospital The Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital. Quite a blow out. Many testimonials regarding Mr. Simmonds. NSB announced that an entire collection of Mr. Simmonds ivory carvings had been collected and will be on display when the Cultural Center is built. Mr. Simmonds has a distinct style, one always knows his pieces. All of the heads are slightly rounded off squares. In my opinion the best one depicts a hunter lying on the snow behind a pile of ice blocks waiting to throw a spear at a group of seals.
One of the elders told a story about Samuel and his cousin, Arnold when they were both young men. One summer their job was to herd reindeer. The herd was split and went east and west. The boys packed their sleds and took off with their dogs. Samuel missed his cousin and named one his dogs after Arnold. He would talk to the dog, Arnold, every day and when things didn't go well, the dog got a boot in the tail. The two cousins met at round up and greeted each other and began catching up with each other's summer. A couple of the dogs started growling and snarling at each other. Both men turned at the same time and shouted.
"Arnold, get over here!"
"Samuel, get over here!"
Everyone laughed.
House dream with a nice collection of water bowls, the kind that nest together and make a sort of fountain.
3-3: Computer system not working this Monday morning. The disk is full. It took IT until 11 am to fix things.
While working on a birth certificate I noted the baby boy's middle name was McCord. This was in honor of the physician who was presumed lost in the blizzard. The Inupiat do not name their children after living people, so there will not be any little Royce's running around in Barrow. One of the medical record ladies gave her baby girl a middle name of Daphne, after Dr. Perez' wife who was killed in a whaling accident.
3-5: A young man, 20, shot himself in the abdomen and died. He was brought into ER but he could not be saved. The ME refused the case as it was clear this was a suicide.
The Future System people have been here setting up the accounting package on the computer. This is a halting step forward in better billing. Will keep fingers crossed. While I do not officially have anything to do with billing I have gotten interested in the providing the CPT codes and ICD9 codes part of the billing package. Idle fingers syndrome.
3-6: One employee out with sick kid, ASNA provided emergency short term phone answering person. That worked out well.
Kept getting interrupted by Husky looking for his person. I was looking at his collar and he actually knocked me over....I felt so uncharacteristically delicate. Called the Vets and they came over and secured the overly friendly canine. I had to write a damn incident report about the dog, etc. He was very polite, did not bark.
3-8-97: Sat news from Pendleton. Tim's sister Better called to say that his Dad had died at home. The church became concerned when he did not show up as usual. They think it was a heart attack. Tim will fly down to help with things. His name full name was Vesterlide Alden, his nickname was Buster. He was named after a battleship. The funeral will be Wednesday, I will send flowers.
Today at work I learned how to make a macro. Hold the F12 key and now most of Dr. M's perfectly dreadful physical exam spits out on the screen before he is through talking. Yay me!
Hospital drama: One of the nurse's husband came home from his first day on the job at the post office. He sort of went postal, he started waving a hand gun around. She took the kids and left calling PSO. It took PSO about 7 hours to talk him into giving up the gun and not shooting anyone. PSO had evacuated the entire quarters and everyone huddled in commons. He was admitted for evaluation and observation. The psych people said he was okay to discharge. PSO did keep the gun.
Had a newbie come in to be seen in ER as a walk-in. He was upset that the process took so long. I explained that he needed to make an actual appointment for the morning and it was show up as walk-in for everyone in the afternoon. The guy came over on his break thinking that it would go swiftly. Um, nope. Have a seat.
3-11: Martin Buser won the Idatarod. Got to watch a lot of it on ABC. He has loved the Iditarod so much that he named two of his kids after villages that he has driven through; Nicolai and Kaltag. Hopefully if he has a little girl she won't be named Safety or Unalakleet.
Heard from husband, the funeral went well and all of the siblings participated in a grief counseling session. There may be a tussle over the "will" I have seen the last will and testament and it is a mess. There are a dozen or more changes all notarized. I think they need a legal opinion on whether or not the thing is even valid. I think the Seventh Day Adventist will get the house and there are some small cash disbursements basically. So we shall see.
Potential purchases; Husband and I are thinking of purchasing a new computer with all the bells and whistles.
Shopping dream: Dress shopping. I wanted some of the special shoes, they turned color to match the dress!!
3-27: Traveling dream. Toured some nifty bathrooms that had marble walls. I wandered around and found five years worth of mail waiting for me. Argh, gotta get to the PO more often I am guessing.
Lots of conversations yesterday at work, no one got fired but there was alot of loud discussion regarding reports and stuff. Works out that the organization chart has changed slightly medical records now reports to Finance rather than administration. Okey dokey.
Got to pick up Monica, Tasha and two cats. We got her into her apartment, no gas , no phone. I took hammer, screw driver and plyers just in case and needed them, some things needed assembly. I will call her a cab for Monday morning and she will be on the look out. Thank God, she is here. I can stop worrying about stuff, kind of. We will run around Monday getting Tasha enrolled and utilities started.
Monica reported that the longest ten hours and 150 miles was the part they drove from Haines to Haines Junction. The road was drifted most of the way and the only marker was pole markers by the side of the road. She did this in her cute little KIA. Just shoot me'.
That's all the excitement for March. G'night folks.
3-2: Got up early because the next door neighbor was in her bathroom tuning up her smoker's cough. I like doing wash early Sunday morning, usually have the place to myself unless someone is sleeping it off in a warm spot. Only mishap has been the instance in which a neighbor quickly started a load of wash before I had entirely emptied the washer of my tattier unmentionables. I explained the problem and the gentleman allowed me to extract my delicates from his far studier wash load. Phew!!
Official renaming ceremony. ASNA has decided to rename the hospital The Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital. Quite a blow out. Many testimonials regarding Mr. Simmonds. NSB announced that an entire collection of Mr. Simmonds ivory carvings had been collected and will be on display when the Cultural Center is built. Mr. Simmonds has a distinct style, one always knows his pieces. All of the heads are slightly rounded off squares. In my opinion the best one depicts a hunter lying on the snow behind a pile of ice blocks waiting to throw a spear at a group of seals.
One of the elders told a story about Samuel and his cousin, Arnold when they were both young men. One summer their job was to herd reindeer. The herd was split and went east and west. The boys packed their sleds and took off with their dogs. Samuel missed his cousin and named one his dogs after Arnold. He would talk to the dog, Arnold, every day and when things didn't go well, the dog got a boot in the tail. The two cousins met at round up and greeted each other and began catching up with each other's summer. A couple of the dogs started growling and snarling at each other. Both men turned at the same time and shouted.
"Arnold, get over here!"
"Samuel, get over here!"
Everyone laughed.
House dream with a nice collection of water bowls, the kind that nest together and make a sort of fountain.
3-3: Computer system not working this Monday morning. The disk is full. It took IT until 11 am to fix things.
While working on a birth certificate I noted the baby boy's middle name was McCord. This was in honor of the physician who was presumed lost in the blizzard. The Inupiat do not name their children after living people, so there will not be any little Royce's running around in Barrow. One of the medical record ladies gave her baby girl a middle name of Daphne, after Dr. Perez' wife who was killed in a whaling accident.
3-5: A young man, 20, shot himself in the abdomen and died. He was brought into ER but he could not be saved. The ME refused the case as it was clear this was a suicide.
The Future System people have been here setting up the accounting package on the computer. This is a halting step forward in better billing. Will keep fingers crossed. While I do not officially have anything to do with billing I have gotten interested in the providing the CPT codes and ICD9 codes part of the billing package. Idle fingers syndrome.
3-6: One employee out with sick kid, ASNA provided emergency short term phone answering person. That worked out well.
Kept getting interrupted by Husky looking for his person. I was looking at his collar and he actually knocked me over....I felt so uncharacteristically delicate. Called the Vets and they came over and secured the overly friendly canine. I had to write a damn incident report about the dog, etc. He was very polite, did not bark.
3-8-97: Sat news from Pendleton. Tim's sister Better called to say that his Dad had died at home. The church became concerned when he did not show up as usual. They think it was a heart attack. Tim will fly down to help with things. His name full name was Vesterlide Alden, his nickname was Buster. He was named after a battleship. The funeral will be Wednesday, I will send flowers.
Today at work I learned how to make a macro. Hold the F12 key and now most of Dr. M's perfectly dreadful physical exam spits out on the screen before he is through talking. Yay me!
Hospital drama: One of the nurse's husband came home from his first day on the job at the post office. He sort of went postal, he started waving a hand gun around. She took the kids and left calling PSO. It took PSO about 7 hours to talk him into giving up the gun and not shooting anyone. PSO had evacuated the entire quarters and everyone huddled in commons. He was admitted for evaluation and observation. The psych people said he was okay to discharge. PSO did keep the gun.
Had a newbie come in to be seen in ER as a walk-in. He was upset that the process took so long. I explained that he needed to make an actual appointment for the morning and it was show up as walk-in for everyone in the afternoon. The guy came over on his break thinking that it would go swiftly. Um, nope. Have a seat.
3-11: Martin Buser won the Idatarod. Got to watch a lot of it on ABC. He has loved the Iditarod so much that he named two of his kids after villages that he has driven through; Nicolai and Kaltag. Hopefully if he has a little girl she won't be named Safety or Unalakleet.
Heard from husband, the funeral went well and all of the siblings participated in a grief counseling session. There may be a tussle over the "will" I have seen the last will and testament and it is a mess. There are a dozen or more changes all notarized. I think they need a legal opinion on whether or not the thing is even valid. I think the Seventh Day Adventist will get the house and there are some small cash disbursements basically. So we shall see.
Potential purchases; Husband and I are thinking of purchasing a new computer with all the bells and whistles.
Shopping dream: Dress shopping. I wanted some of the special shoes, they turned color to match the dress!!
3-27: Traveling dream. Toured some nifty bathrooms that had marble walls. I wandered around and found five years worth of mail waiting for me. Argh, gotta get to the PO more often I am guessing.
Lots of conversations yesterday at work, no one got fired but there was alot of loud discussion regarding reports and stuff. Works out that the organization chart has changed slightly medical records now reports to Finance rather than administration. Okey dokey.
Got to pick up Monica, Tasha and two cats. We got her into her apartment, no gas , no phone. I took hammer, screw driver and plyers just in case and needed them, some things needed assembly. I will call her a cab for Monday morning and she will be on the look out. Thank God, she is here. I can stop worrying about stuff, kind of. We will run around Monday getting Tasha enrolled and utilities started.
Monica reported that the longest ten hours and 150 miles was the part they drove from Haines to Haines Junction. The road was drifted most of the way and the only marker was pole markers by the side of the road. She did this in her cute little KIA. Just shoot me'.
That's all the excitement for March. G'night folks.
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