A Funny Thing

When you're me, and you've been going on duty at the medical ICU for the past four weeks, you get to see front row seats to fate's gala performances.

Stuff just happens.

And it's crazy when it happens to you.

Just when you go off duty, the weirdest things happen -- arrhythmias (really bad rhythms of the heart that believe me, you don't want to be facing alone), spontaneous pneumothorax in a patient with a chest tube, an arrest.

Just when you're done updating an attending on how unremarkable the night went for his or her patient, she crashes and you get to call them again on how you had to stick a tube down their patient's throat to help them breathe.

Just when you say the pupils are equal, the consultant comes by 30 minutes after and orders a CT scan because the pupils are not reactive to the light shone in her eyes.

When these crazy things happen, you just want to smack yourself on the side of your head.

You can only do so much to not look like an incompetent fool and worse a liar, but that's how it plays out sometimes.

Stuff happens.

Like inserting a line a really swollen, twice-my-leg-sized arm after a gazillion attempts by trained IV therapists.

You make the right call in diagnosing the patient and you silently beam, puff your chest out a little, when the attending tries to find something to chastise you about.

You don't give a crap about critics' opinion of your progress notes when you know all the patients admitted are stable because you know their cases in and out.

Times that you actually order ahead for something the consultant thinks of two days after.

That's just how it is.

Stuff happens.

Just simple random stuff.

Fate is truly a funny wicked thing.

The Soundtrack

In my previous post, I wrote about someone very very close to me is getting married to someone she really really loves (wink). (Aw c'mon, just play along, haha). And for that happy event, it's mainly her preparations and she runs stuff by me every now and then but she assigned one special thing to me -- the music.

So it's my job to come up with the bestest wedding soundtrack that says who they truly are and one or the other, these songs are going to be in.

TRAIN - Hey, Soul Sister



BOYS LIKE GIRLS - Two Is Better Than One




And one of their favorites


LOS LONELY BOYS - More Than Love

Embedding disabled for this one so click the link:

More Than Love

But here's live slower version with Ronny Millsap




No "Hopelessly Devoted To You" at this wedding. (Nothing against it though, haha, I happen to think it's a beautiful song, but not at this wedding.)

This is the music they share together and now shared with you.

You and Me

Kudos to the Dave Matthews Band for this great number at the 2010 Grammy Awards



Got me singing and thinking music all over again...