BUSH DIARY JANUARY 1999:
We survived Christmas in Coquille 1998 and are all back in Barrow for the time being.
1-8: Tim is in day three of a wowser of a cold. He came into the outpatient clinic as a walk-in and was given antibiotics, decongestant and a nebulizer. I have been making pots of chicken soup. I only have minor sniffles, we shall see how that develops.
1-10: Sunday was our fourth wedding anniversary. We celebrated by exchanging romantic greeting cards. Neither one of us felt like dragging out to dinner somewhere to celebrate.
1-15: Bradford has been sleeping more than usual, no eating, no drinking. Tim took in to the vet and liver tests are not good and are not going to get any better. We will keep him home until we have to take for the final shot.
Next week Monica is flying to Bethel for safety officer training with a day or two in Anchorage sandwiched in between. Update: Monica says she will NEVER complaining about anything regarding Barrow. The water was oily and it looked like it would ignite if she had used a match.
Most recent bit of nonsense at work is a situation where an inpatient is getting a morphine drip. The only available morphine had just outdated. The doctor decided to call the pharmacist and use the outdated morphine. Now in the third world medicine, the outdated morphine would be cheerfully used without any hoo hoo. However the morphine had already been reported to the DEA as outdated and when DEA sends back approval to destroy stock the PSO must come over to witness the destruction of the stock. So the pharmacist wants the doctor suspended and the hospital CEO is the doctor's significant other. About the only thing the pharmacist can do is document exactly what happened.
1-16: Attended my second class of Gothic Literature. we are reading The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Dracula, Frankenstein. And we are also learning about the concept of sublime. Which as I understand it, is the exercise of the mind to experience strong emotions such as terror through reading about or going to the Swiss Alps, because they are so overwhelming to experience in person.
Same day we had a power outage and the class teacher lives in the same building at us and it was black inside the building. He propped one of the upstairs doors open so I could stagger upstairs and get inside to the light.
1-17: We made arrangements to meet the Vet and the clinic as Bradford is very bad and needs to be put to sleep. Dr. Caldwell gave an injection that took effect immediately. Tim was very sweet and told him he loved him. Then we made arrangements for him to be cremated. I was pretty much of a blubbering mess for the whole thing.
1-23: The sun came up today at 1:09 pm. I missed it as I was in class and there was a ground blizzard at the time, so very hazy.
1-26: Four or five fire alarms at work. This usually happens when the water pressure drops at BUECI and the alarms go off at the hospital.
1-28: Weather report this morning was funny. "The wind chill advisory has been cancelled. Latest temperature in Barrow is minus 32 degrees with wind chill to minus 50 degrees.".
Weather projects minus 95 wind chill. That is when you stay at home if at all possible.
We got our W-2's and it will be painful this year with cashing out PERS for the house closing. Oh well, will have to cough up about 1300 for Unca Sam.
Because of the wind and the strange wind chill we have weird twisty knobby ice cycles.
Must bundle, baby it's cold outside. G'night folks.
We survived Christmas in Coquille 1998 and are all back in Barrow for the time being.
1-8: Tim is in day three of a wowser of a cold. He came into the outpatient clinic as a walk-in and was given antibiotics, decongestant and a nebulizer. I have been making pots of chicken soup. I only have minor sniffles, we shall see how that develops.
1-10: Sunday was our fourth wedding anniversary. We celebrated by exchanging romantic greeting cards. Neither one of us felt like dragging out to dinner somewhere to celebrate.
1-15: Bradford has been sleeping more than usual, no eating, no drinking. Tim took in to the vet and liver tests are not good and are not going to get any better. We will keep him home until we have to take for the final shot.
Next week Monica is flying to Bethel for safety officer training with a day or two in Anchorage sandwiched in between. Update: Monica says she will NEVER complaining about anything regarding Barrow. The water was oily and it looked like it would ignite if she had used a match.
Most recent bit of nonsense at work is a situation where an inpatient is getting a morphine drip. The only available morphine had just outdated. The doctor decided to call the pharmacist and use the outdated morphine. Now in the third world medicine, the outdated morphine would be cheerfully used without any hoo hoo. However the morphine had already been reported to the DEA as outdated and when DEA sends back approval to destroy stock the PSO must come over to witness the destruction of the stock. So the pharmacist wants the doctor suspended and the hospital CEO is the doctor's significant other. About the only thing the pharmacist can do is document exactly what happened.
1-16: Attended my second class of Gothic Literature. we are reading The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Dracula, Frankenstein. And we are also learning about the concept of sublime. Which as I understand it, is the exercise of the mind to experience strong emotions such as terror through reading about or going to the Swiss Alps, because they are so overwhelming to experience in person.
Same day we had a power outage and the class teacher lives in the same building at us and it was black inside the building. He propped one of the upstairs doors open so I could stagger upstairs and get inside to the light.
1-17: We made arrangements to meet the Vet and the clinic as Bradford is very bad and needs to be put to sleep. Dr. Caldwell gave an injection that took effect immediately. Tim was very sweet and told him he loved him. Then we made arrangements for him to be cremated. I was pretty much of a blubbering mess for the whole thing.
1-23: The sun came up today at 1:09 pm. I missed it as I was in class and there was a ground blizzard at the time, so very hazy.
1-26: Four or five fire alarms at work. This usually happens when the water pressure drops at BUECI and the alarms go off at the hospital.
1-28: Weather report this morning was funny. "The wind chill advisory has been cancelled. Latest temperature in Barrow is minus 32 degrees with wind chill to minus 50 degrees.".
Weather projects minus 95 wind chill. That is when you stay at home if at all possible.
We got our W-2's and it will be painful this year with cashing out PERS for the house closing. Oh well, will have to cough up about 1300 for Unca Sam.
Because of the wind and the strange wind chill we have weird twisty knobby ice cycles.
Must bundle, baby it's cold outside. G'night folks.
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