Day 3 - Dance It Out

This morning we experienced an unusual phenomenon in the emergency room... we had no patients for almost two hours... imagine that!  A Monday morning with no patients at all coming in, and all of the rooms empty.

So I started playing music while I worked on some charts...

and the nurses started dancing to

"Low" by Flo Rida

Soon there was laughter and giddiness

throughout the entire staff

this morning...

The music played until suddenly

the ED was full within about 

an hour as ambulances and patients

started showing up en masse...

However, throughout the day, I could occasionally

hear one of the nurses humming the music,

another moving her head to the internal beat

that she alone could hear,

and the ED tech whistling the tune as

he went about his work...

Which is why I love this scene from "Grey's Anatomy"

and the words in it:

We go into medicine because we want to save lives. 

We go into medicine because we want to do good. 

We go into medicine for the rush, for the high, for the ride 

but what we remember at the end of most days are the losses. 

What we lay awake replaying is the pain we caused or failed to cure. 

The lives we ruined or failed to save. 

So the experience of practicing medicine rarely resembles the goal. 

The experience too often is ass backwards and upside down.

- Meredith Grey (Season4, Ep.9-Crash Into Me: Part 1)

Sometimes you just need to dance it out.

To relieve the stress

To get ready for the day

To share a moment devoid of the reality of what we do on a daily basis

To remember we are a team...

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 28 - Come Home

This is my faithful Jeep Cherokee

that carried us over the last 8 days

over 3000 miles.

What a trip!

And, this is the final bridge that we cross

which is only about 5 miles away from home...

It's always good to be home...

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 26 - Lucky

Today I accomplished one of those bucket list items:

Fly fishing in Montana.

And so, I cheated on my shuffle because I picked the song

"Lucky" by Jason Mraz because I was lucky and caught 2 fish...

This is the first one:

And this is the "one that got away..."

Yeah, he's out there somewhere as he

flipped right off the line just as my guide was

about to scoop him up in the net.

And, he was a biggin'

I kept my Uncle Ruben in my thoughts throughout the day.

Two years ago during my birthday shuffle

I wrote about him and how we used to

go fishing together...

He would have loved today,

and I would have loved to have had him

with me...

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 18 - She Bangs

I have a whole collection of Latin dance music on my iPod.  I think most people will remember this song not because of Ricky Martin, but because of William Hung who got his 15 minutes of fame after using the song for his "American Idol" audition.

Either way, it's a fun, rockin' in your seat kinda song... enjoy...!

MyPod Birthday Shuffle IV - Day 15 - (You Want to) Make A Memory

From time to time, I think everyone hears a song on the radio 

which makes you stop and think about "what might have been."

This song does that for me.

Two friends getting together for whatever reason.

Obviously comfortable with each other.

Some would say being with an ex after a long time.

I've never had an ex.  Funny, huh...?

I had a lot of relationships, but no exes.

Seems I just moved on from one relationship

to the next.

Sure I had a first love, and those unrequited loves

I've written about before.

But, no exes.  

No stalker who calls friends to see where I am.

No worrying about where I went out to because I 

"didn't want to run into him and his new girlfriend."

No awkward meeting with his family members.

Anyway.

Although  I am happily married,

I do think about some of the people I dated

or almost dated

or wish I would have dated.... 

And this song reminds me of them,

and what might have been....