I closed a car door on my head.
(tetanus Shot and Second Hepatitis A and B Shot)I closed a car door on my head. My head! I couldn't believe it.
I drove to work and parked under a low-hanging branch. When I slammed the door, and I mean slammed the door, I ducked to miss the branch. I don't know why I did that, but the corner of the door caught me in the center of my forehead just below the hairline. It made a small corner tear in my face.
The injury didn't bleed much, but I figured I should maybe get a tetanus shot. I don't like being stuck with needles (although you'd never know it by all the blood bank and immunization visits I've done in the past year).
More than not liking to be stuck with needles, however, I'm not crazy about the idea of a forced diet because my jaws have 'locked' shut.
The day after the head vs. door event, I looked in the mirror and saw a deep, dark bruise just behind my left arm. My arm must have slowed the speed of that car door. Otherwise, I'd probably have had a rip across my forehead or a cracked bone! I'm lucky that arm was in the way.
I got the shots in both arms, Hep A+B in the left arm, tetanus in the right arm. Fortunately, the RN who gave the shots was really good at it. She shot me faster than a gunslinger in an old TV western. Then it was done.
As is my way these days, I asked where she went to school and how she liked their program. (Well, first I had to do my "are you sure that was a new needle?" routine. I don't know why I do that. I guess it just reassures me to have someone tell me, "Yes, I just broke the cover off of it. We don't reuse needles." And, fortunately she was nice about it.)
This RN, who gives immunization shots to people who walk in and take a number, told me her goal - Masters in Public Health and "eventually a PhD". She said she's found the place where she fits. She said, "this is where I belong." What a good feeling that must be. I do feel some of that with what I am learning, but I don't have that sense of certainty that she expressed.
posted by jordanrep.com/10522 @ 9:45 PM
2 Comments:
Thank you for visiting my site and making the nice compliment, I just found it today. I am glad you will be an emergency worker. Good ones are needed. I have a paramedic in my family and an ER nurse, and I've worked in an ER myself. It can be very satisfying work.
Hi Gareth,
Thanks for visiting my 'bunny blog', too. :) And, thanks for the encouragement re: my course of study and career plans.
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