November Notes, Day 27

"After Dinner Conversations"

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.  I went to a colleague's home for Thanksgiving given that I am away from home working in Sacramento for the holiday.  Her family was very nice, and we had a great time eating and drinking.  What I love best, though, are the after dinner conversations.

As physicians, and especially as ED physicians, we get asked all the time about TV shows and how close to reality are they.  We all laughed and shared experiences from our medical school and training and how there are some things you're only going to see on TV... such as that episode on "Grey's Anatomy" where they wear adult incontinence undergarments to surgery so that they don't have to step out and miss something.  This is something my surgical fellow residents and I never even considered.  You ate and drank to a certain schedule, and you made sure your bladder was empty prior to going into the OR.  Even bowel habits became regimented.

We also talked about current politics touching on the Belgium Crisis and cat memes, the refugee crisis and friends that are helping and their stories, and the legalization of marijuana in California and the problem with "trimigrants."  

There were the usual discussions about favorite TV shows, the benefits of Hulu and Roku versus satellite or cable.  What shows were currently available on Netflix and what recent movies were better than others.  We discussed music.  We touched on some decorating tips.  And, we had some nice discussions about travel and places we'd been and where we'd like to go next.

I could have talked all night...   

#losethepannus

Technically, it's the panniculus,

but most medical folk know it as the pannus...

And, some time in March of this year

I decided to finally wage a strong battle against it.

So far, I think I might be winning...

Earlier that month, I came back from two back to back trips:

one to New Orleans and another on a two week cruise.

If either of those doesn't scream out LOTS of GOOD FOOD to some of you, 

then you've got some traveling to do.

But, I digress...

Much to my chagrin, after these two trips despite my best efforts

to get in lots of walking and, at least, an occasional trip to the workout room,

I came back to find none of my clothes fit me comfortably.

Even my scrubs were a bit on the tight side.

So I did something I've only done like 4 times in my adult life...

I weighed myself.

Now, I like using kilograms because as a physician we

use the metric system all the time.

Plus, when you see 70kg on a scale, it doesn't seem so scary.

Imagine my consternation when I made the conversion from

kilos to pounds (multiple by 2.2)....!!!

Yikes!!

I was very close to the 200 pound mark.

When did that happen??

And, how did it happen so easily??

Well, I am sure this had a lot to do with it,

but now I really needed to do something about it...

So I bought a bike:

Now, I know nothing about bikes, so all I asked for was:

something that was a road bike, not a mountain bike

something that didn't weigh a lot

something that was middle range in price

and something that would be durable.

After trying out different models and seats,

I ended up with a Fuji Absolute

So I went on my first ride in Folsom where I stay when I work in Sacramento...

I planned out a route and thought,

seriously, how hard could five miles be?

Almost immediately I thought I was going to die

either from a heart attack or due to my thighs exploding

from the strain...

and I hadn't even gotten to the hilly part yet.

But I made it through that ride... 

note that GoogleMaps says

I should make the ride in 30 minutes... 

yeah, right...

Not fully discouraged, I kept riding and came up with the hashtag

#losethepannus

both as a tongue-in-cheek inspiration for weight loss, but also because

having something hitting/resting on the top of your thighs

when you're riding is not conducive to good cycling form

and definitely slows you down.

So I rode:

And, I rode:

And, I rode:

Building up some distance...

And pushing myself farther:

Then came the hills.  I christened this one

"Lung Vomit Hill"

The distance wasn't so long, but check out the grade at the beginning..

I seriously was going to raise my arms above my head 

and cheer when I made it to the top!

But my lungs and thighs were on fire,

and I think I might have been hallucinating the 

"Rocky" theme song at that point.

Once I was back home on the coast, I took to our local country roads...

And found that I had a perfect route for some interval training...

And, then, I became "that person" 

You know, the one that takes their bike on vacation...

And, I challenged myself to this ride...

At the top... ouch...

which screamed for this hash tag

#anotherlungvomithill

Then I went and did it... 

I bought bike shorts.

I was starting to consistently ride close to 10 miles,

and I started to notice around mile 7 that my butt was getting kinda sore.

So, I made the investment.  And, my ischial tuberosities thank me...

As I've progressed in distance, my DH has become

part of my support team.  He offers to drive me places

so that I can get in a longer ride...

Like cycling down the Avenue of the Giants...

There were some challenging hills on that route...

He also challenged me by offering to buy me lunch...

if I rode my bike into town...

the extra 30 minutes on my time is because of

Loleta Hill which is

#anotherlungvomithill

but those extra 1097 calories burned were so worth it

because let's be honest...

I love to eat..!

A couple of days ago, he dropped me off on the highway

so I could do this ride from Scotia to home...

Those three bumps you see below on the elevation chart 

are the "Three Sisters"

with yet another "Lung Vomit" hill...

So, after three months, the pannus is slowly shrinking,

clothes are fitting better again,

I've been able to work off a lot of recent personal stress,

and my bike and I seem to suddenly be getting invited to a lot of places.

Locally, there's a 30 mile ride through a lot of the same

routes I've been riding while at home which I've challenged 

myself to do in October.

My best friend from college has challenged me to

do a 50 mile ride with her in January in a town just east of San Diego...

and, I actually registered for it...!

And, who knows, maybe a year from now, I'll be able to ride a part of the 

Tour of the Unknown Coast as a cyclist and not just as medical support... 

Pedal Pushing

I went and did it...

I invested in a bike,

and helmet,

and pocket holder,

and a couple of other accessories that were just for fun.

Now understand that as an ED doc,

I see a lot of the bad that can happen when you're out riding...

But, I also understand the health benefits

of getting off your butt and doing something...

So I am...

Today, my first 5.6 mile foray took along 

the American River Bike Trail

which has some 30+ miles of trails...

I thought I was going to puke my guts out after 

the first hill just getting to this point...

We'll just work our way up slowly, shall we...?

Tripping Over the Threshold of the New Year

So our New Year's started off rather ungloriously.  We went out to dinner with friends at the local casino (given our rural area we have limited choices.)  They didn't really coordinate the countdown, so we just huddled in the middle of the slot machines at some time approximating midnight and kissed when the majority of the other patrons seems to be doing so.  Happy New Year.

We then packed up Momma and the kids the next morning and drove down to Sacramento.  We had a nice dinner with the AirBNB Granny I stay with while I am in SacTo.  One night to rest, then hubby took Momma back to SoCal, and I stayed so the I could start working on the 2nd.  He came back the next day as I was leaving for work and left yesterday back to NorCal.  

Tonight is my fourth shift out of a run of six, and the New Year is kicking along with the usual compliment of the crazed, the crazy, and the generally craziness that comes with working around any holiday.  We're also in the midst of cold and flu season, and any child with a sniffle and a temp above 98.6 is being brought in to the ED.  Everyone is demanding Z Packs, and if the child has even touched their ear within the last week, they automatically assume it's an ear infection and that they need an Amoxicillin prescription.

We also get all of the out-of-towners who forgot to bring their medications with them when they traveled to visit their loved ones meaning right about now their Norco, Methadone, Oxycontin prescriptions have run out and they need more.  Doesn't matter that they're scheduled to go home in a couple of days, they need their drugs now!  

Our beds are also full of the homeless, the depressed, the I can't stand to live another day so I tried to kill myself and my dog so that we could cross the Rainbow Bridge together.  As to that last one, I made the mistake of asking the paramedics if Animal Control or the Sheriff's office had taken the dog or were planning to file animal abuse charges.  The patient then started screaming that she would "just want to die" if her dog was taken away from her.  When I asked her what she would have done if the dog had died from the drugs she fed it during her OD attempt, she became even more fixated on the fact that no one was taking away her dog because she "just wouldn't be able to live" at that point.  There's a thing called insight... she didn't have it.  And, I was too cold standing in the ambulance bay at that point to try to explain it to her... 

Sigh.

Hope you had a happy New Year.  One of my goals for the year is to write more frequently, so I hope you will come along for the journey as we venture forth into 2015!

Wrapping Up 2014

So I write after my month-long self-imposed hiatus.

November just took the life out of me.

As did working about three weeks of 6-8 straight days in the ED

then driving to pick up Momma in SoCal, 

then driving back 12 hours home to work over Christmas

then.. then.. then...

Now, December, and 2014 for that matter, is winding down, and I am posting.

Christmas is by far my favorite holiday, and with working so much this year

I really didn't feel like I got to enjoy it.

Usually, I have all my decorations out the weekend after Thanksgiving,

get the lights put up by the first, and the entire house decorated.

This year, I had one day around December 13th to go out and pick a tree with my hubby

so that he could cut it down, drag it into the house, and then

half-ass decorate it so that I could have that done before going to work the next day.

Even my reindeer just got lined up on the mantle with no small trees and candles

around them like I usually do.

No trimmings on the front gate and fencing.

Not even lights on the house...

Then today I took it all down.

Day after tomorrow I drive back to Sacramento for another 

9 shifts in 10 days.  So I have to have everything ready in the house

before I leave.

I got to enjoy Christmas for all of about 16 days.

I wonder if I will be able to arrange my work schedule next year so that I can

take most of December off..

We'll have to see what the new year brings

as the door closes on this one....

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas

and a blessed and joyous New Year...!!

Day 28 - Semi-Live Feed

I thought I would try an experiment today and put in events as they happen during my shift in the ED.  I don't have Twitter so I can't "live feed," but we'll see how this works out, so keep checking back as I will update this post as the day goes along and time permits.

0500 - Came on shift to get sign-out of 14 patient waiting for admission, discharge or consultants to see them.  This didn't include the 3 people who were on psych hold awaiting placement at local psych facilities.

0503 - The first ambulance of my day arrives bringing in someone with a "numb arm" because they fell asleep on it.  I send them to the lobby to await fast track.

0510 - Ambulance (AMB) - "my shoulder and hip hurt"

0530 - reviewed a chest x-ray (CXR) and diagnosed pneumonia in a toddler

0545 - picked up a patient that was triaged earlier with abdominal pain

0550 - AMB - spouse called because patient "didn't want to wake up."  Patient admits to "drinking a lot of alcohol last night."

0555 - AMB - elderly patient with shortness of breath

0630 - patient with shortness of breath has a large fluid collection on their lung, call for drainage; another patient from sign-out has a dislocated shoulder and the orthopedist asks for me to do procedural sedation so that it can be reduced - after a lot of propofol (aka milk of amnesia) the joint is put back in place and discharge orders are written; another psych patient has forms to be signed so that they can be transferred

0700 - getting busy; two car crash victims come in for evaluation; taking care of more of the sign-outs and getting them admitted/discharged/sent to psych, etc

0800 - AMB - "I'm dizzy and haven't been taking any of my medication"
         - AMB - "My heart is skipping beats, and I think my potassium is low"
         - AMB - "My finger is infected, I've had diarrhea and stomach cramps, I haven't picked up any of the medications I was prescribed for infection 2 days ago."
         - AMB - Assault
         - AMB - Psych nursing home patient with abnormal labs.

0830 - I got coffee on the way in... yeah, Dutch Brothers!... I just finally got breakfast... what I really needed was a Snickers bar since I was turning into quite the Diva
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0900 - all Hell's broken loose... about 5 ambulances in a row and the psych patients are starting to get restless...

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1000 - trying to clean up from the pile of EKG's and CT scan results that are inundating my work space... did I mention about 4 more ambulances arrived?

1015 - baby bell went off... another life comes into the world

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1100 - AMB - "My chest hurts and my esphophagus is in spasm."
         - AMB - "My back hurts because I was sitting at dinner and then coughed."
         - a "drunken bitch" that was a signout from overnight has finally sobered up enough to state that she doesn't remember what happened last night and wants to know why her ankle hurts so bad.  What she doesn't remember is stripping off all of her clothes and running naked down the middle of the street.  Happy Thanksgiving...!
        - AMB - "I've had the flu and my back hurts.  Oh, and I had neck pain with a fever..."
        - AMB - "I got a flu shot and now I think I have pneumonia"
        - AMB - Patient sent from nursing home with concern for weakness and they "need a feeding tube."
        - "My ear hurts"  I diagnosed a ruptured eardrum, and the patient wanted to know what I was going to do to "fix it."  I attempted to explain that they usually fix on their own, but she said that she couldn't hear and needed something done sooner.... yeah, um...

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1200 - Help arrived, I don't have to pick up any new patients, however I had a pile waiting to be seen still
         - Concern for stroke, from Wisconsin, fellow cheesehead...
         - SVT and COPD admitted for both
         - HA with concern for head bleed because of prior history of head bleed
         - AMB - Concern for stroke with dementia, makes for a difficult physical exam
         - Pediatric asthma... parents, STOP SMOKING..!!
    
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1300 - Trying to clean up from the day.  Labs to be reviewed.  Radiological studies to be followed up on.  They say on average an ED physician gets interrupted multiple times a minute.  I'm wrestling with managing over a dozen patients at once including the lingering sign-outs from the morning, especially one that is cursing at staff and telling everyone around them to F-off.  They're over 70 years old by the way...

1330 - Lunch while I chart!

1345 - Underage patient who smokes pot they "find around the house" here with concern that their "tongue is going to fall off."  They sit on the ambulance gurney holding onto their tongue so it doesn't.  I ask them to put their tongue back in their mouth.  They instantly realize they can and try to jump off the gurney saying "I'm all better I can go now!"  But, they can't because some of the other medications they "farmed" around the house are kicking in and they start to vomit.  I'll be signing this one out for sure.

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1400 - I'm under the gun.  My scribe has left and I need to finish discharging/admitting/transitioning patients while I continue to be interrrupted and the other MD is getting overwhelmed by the waves of humanity.  Funny how fast things can change.  Yesterday at this time there were 10 patients on the board, no one in the lobby, and I was leaving my shift early... now there's a full board of 25+ patients along with 22 in the lobby, the longest of which has been waiting almost 3 hours...

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1430 - I've got almost everyone admitted who's going to stay including the back pain because it just "hurts too much to walk" despite dosages of narcotics that would have me (and most people) unconscious for the next 36 hours.  Still waiting on call backs from admitting physicians.

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1530 - The last of the admitting physicians have called back.  Everyone is signed out.  I am headed home... whew!

#1801 - On AirBnB

Hello!  And, welcome to my little corner of cyberspace.

I am happy to be doing the From A to Z Challenge again this year.

Last year, it gave me a chance to read a LOT of interesting new blogs,

and also brought a lot of new readers to my site as well...

thank you to those that have stuck with me through the last year..

Hope I can continue to keep it entertaining and interesting for you all!!

My number in the title is where I am on the list of participants. 

(2231 signed up as of today!)

During the month, it gets smaller as people fall out.

You have to post daily...!

As such, my first entry will be on AirBnB.

For new readers, let me give you a little background.

I live in Northern California.  About 90 miles from the Oregon border.

I work as an ED doc in a rural hospital.

Last year, I started picking up shifts in the "big city"...  Sacramento.

During the time I worked as an ambassador for my physician's group

room and board was paid for.

Then I was asked to stay on to help fill in spots from time to time,

so for the last 5 months, I have been traveling down on my own dime

and having to pay for hotels, etc.

As you can imagine, I would need to work more to justify the expense of traveling

the 5 1/2 hours to work.  Then I heard about AirBnB on another blog site.

Basically, it's people renting out their homes, or a room in their

home to people traveling.  The site coordinates the logistics, 

collects a small fee and pays the owner.

It's part of a new trend of "share" sites that are popping up.

People can "borrow" cars, bicycles, homes.

They can go over to someone's house and have a meal cooked

for them while out of town.  Wow, huh?

Anyway, I tried it out, and here's a few things I've learned:

1.)  You get what you pay for.  

Some places are inexpensive but offer you a small bed, or even a couch!  

And you sometimes have to share a bathroom with other guests.  

Read the fine print and decide how comfortable you are with these arrangements.  

For the most part, when I get home from a shift at the hospital, 

I just want a quiet place to lay down and decompress... but I am fussy about

bathroom sharing arrangements.  Which brings me to...

2.) Make it more like home.  

I have a container with all my toiletries that I carry with me.  Once I get to the room,

I set up my supplies for the number of days I am going to be there.  I prefer my

own shower "puff" and body washes to those sometimes provided. 

And, sometimes you might want your own pillow as opposed to the one

provided which isn't as flat/fluffy/formed/not smelly as your own.

3.) Have snacks.

Along with toiletries, you notice that I also have snacks in my travel box.

Even though you often have use of the home's kitchen and dining room,

there are times when I don't want to go out of my room and interrupt

the host's goings-on.  Like if they're having dinner.  Or if they have

family over, etc.  I make sure everything is sealed (I even have a supply

of plastic containers on hand), and I throw my trash away immediately.

Also, I've been told that I can "put my things anywhere" in terms of the

cupboards or refrigerator.  But, often there just isn't enough space.

So, it's just easier to have dry goods I can keep in the room and snack on

or take to work.

4.) Be prepared for anything.

Parking arrangement changes, "extra guests" that were unexpected, chatty hosts, etc.

Sometimes, though, the unexpected can be a pleasure...

A new friend...

2013 A to Z post:

A is for Appetizer

Road Stories - Doing Harm

If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know that I have been commuting back and forth from my home in Humboldt County to Sacramento for work.

That's a long 5 1/2 hours on the road with a LOT of dead spots that don't get radio reception, and as I am finding out, some places don't get satellite radio either.  This is where my trusty iPod usually fills the time.

Occasionally, I get asked to write book reviews, and I haven't really thought much about doing any.  But, recently I was asked to review a "book on CD."  The medical subject matter made it sound interesting, and now with the commute, I have the time, and I am, after all,  a captive audience in a manner of speaking.

So, over the course of the last couple of weeks, I have been listening to Kelly Parsons' "Doing Harm."

I've listened to other audiobooks, and I've found you can lose interest real fast if the narrator sucks.  Trying to speak in a foreign accent, or regional dialect, or in a female voice, or not putting emotion into the story, all of these can lead to a bad listening experience, and even a good story can be ruined.  But, Robert Petkoff who is the narrator of this story does a good job.  My favorite character is the cantankerous patient that plays a small role in the story.  Petkoff's portrayal of his New England accent is spot on and helps solidify this character and the comic relief he brings.

The story itself is a good one;  once you get past the author's overuse of metaphors.  A few are good, but most got a mental if not audible groan as I was listening to the story.  Parsons does a good job for the most part explaining the medical technojargon which he infuses into the story.  And, you don't have to be a doctor to get the essence of the story which centers around several patient deaths... or are they murders...?  Also, having gone to medical school and trained in surgery, the story took me back to the days living in the hospital, time spent in the OR, the call rooms, M&M conference, etc. 

The main character Dr. Steve Mitchell finds himself at the end of his training having gone through medical school and now about to finish his multiple years of residency training as a surgeon... or will it be the end of his training as the murderer sets him up in a series of cunning misdirections.  Some you see coming, some you don't.  

Mitchell initially seems intelligent and worldly, but soon finds he doesn't have the street smarts he needs as the murderer deftly keeps changing the "game" that he has been challenged with.  About halfway through, Mitchell is a drinking, cheating, about-to-lose-his job physician who thought too much of himself and almost had a "clean kill" during a surgical procedure further leading to his potential downfall.  The rest of the story shows him finding his inner strength and fighting back, along with becoming something of a better person and doctor along the way.

Working in the medical field, I had to remember that this was fiction at times.  Like, how does someone just walk off with a canister of nitrous oxide which no one notices?  And pockets that much medication?  And, the prominent question of motivation for the murderer never gets answered.  I was left with the question of "why?"  The murderer states a reason for doing what they are doing, but the deeper trigger is never fully explained.  Or so I thought.

The story builds slowly, and toward the end I found myself having to pull over more that once to change the CD (there's 11 of them!) just to find out what happened next.  The last three CD's were the most suspenseful, and I'm glad I wasn't on the hilly part of my journey because I couldn't get the next one in fast enough.

If you're planning a long road trip (the story is 13 hours long), I recommend getting this audiobook.  Just have someone along with you to change the CD's... 

Day 30 - Whew!

Painting by local artist Shawn Griggs that will soon hang in my home...

Well, I made it through another NaBloPoMo...

I hope you have enjoyed the postings, and

will stick around and continue to follow my postings.

Tonight I drove back from Sacramento where I have been working for the last week.

It's about a 5 1/2 hour drive back to my home in Humboldt County.

Lots of time to think and ponder over the last month,

and all of the events of the day.

I find it interesting, that I can work at a job where one minute

I am trying to save someone's life with CPR and drugs and electricity,

and in the next minute I am pulling cotton from a cotton swab out of someone's ear.

Where else are you going to find a job like that...?

Well, it's good night for me...

and good night on another year of NaBloPoMo...

I'll continue to post albeit not as frequently,

but do continue to visit!

And thank you for reading my stuff... 

someone...?

anyone...?

Day 26 - Some Days You're the Squirrel...

I'm doing triage in the ED for the next 2 days,

and today made me want to drink a lot of these...

 I have one more shift to get through....

will probably post more tomorrow...

Day 21 - Road Tunes...

I drove to Sacramento today to start a ten day run of shifts in two of the local ED's here.  I've been making the same drive over the last 10 months, and it looks like I'll be doing this over the next year.

It's about a 5 1/2 hour drive, and I carry my trusty iPod and iPad with me to play plenty of music since there are several hundred miles of hills and forests with no radio signal.  Well, no decent music radio signal.

I've written before about my eclectic taste in music.  In fact, every year during my birthday month for the last several years, I write a post a day based on taking a spin on the old iPod wheel.

Posts from 2013

Posts from 2012

Posts from 2011

As you can see, very varied...

So today, I thought I would share with you a sampling of the musical accompaniment to my 5 1/2 hour long drove... I started with the song, "Living in the Moment" and didn't hit shuffle, so all of the songs were alphabetical through to the letter "M."  

"Living in the Moment" - Jason Mraz - my new "soundtrack" for life

So I just let go of what I know I don't know
And I know I'll only do this by
Living in the moment
Living our life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
Peace in my soul
Wherever I'm going, I'm already home
Living in the moment

"Living Proof" - Gregory Isakov - one of those Starbuck's freebies

"Locked Out of Heaven" - Bruno Mars - love the beat

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Ooh!
Oh, yeah, yeah,
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Ooh!

"Lollipop" - The Chordettes - classic favorite

Call my baby lollipop 
Tell you why 
His kiss is sweeter than an apple pie 
And when he does his shaky rockin' dance 
Man, I haven't got a chance

"(The) Look" - Roxette - from my college days

Loving is the ocean,
Kissing is the wet sand,
she's got the look.

"(The) Look of Love" - ABC - high school song

"Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" - Mike Doughty - "Grey's Anatomy Sountrack"

"Lookout Weekend" - Debbie Deb - college dance favorite

"Looks Like We Made It" - Barry Manilow - yeah, maybe, but still

"Lose Yourself" - Eminem - 

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted. one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

"Louie Louie" - The Kingsmen - college staple

"Love is in the Air" - John Paul Young - fav from "Simply Ballroom"

"Love of My Life" - Jim Brickman - sigh

"Love on the Rocks" - Neil Diamond - sigh on the rocks

"Love Shack" - The B-52's - my friends and I had a whole room dancing 

to this one on a New Year's Eve in Laughlin

Huggin' and a-kissin'
Dancin' and a-lovin'
Wearin' next to nothin'
'Cause it's hot as an oven
The whole shack shimmies
Yeah, the whole shack shimmies
The whole shack shimmies when everybody's
Movin' around and around and around and around

"Love Song" - 311 - sultry cover hit from fav movie "50 First Dates"

"Love Story" - Taylor Swift - yes, I like Taylor Swift

"Love Would Never Do Without You" - Janet Jackson - I remember this video full of eye candy

There's no easy explanation for it
But whenever there's a problem
We always work it out somehow
Work it out somehow

"Lover Come Back to Me" - Dead or Alive - another college dance staple

"Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" - Journey - mmmhmm... 

You make me weep and wanna die
Just when you said we'd try
Lovin', touchin', squeezin' each other

"Low" - Flo Rida - if I could hip hop, it would be to this

Shawty had them apple bottom jeans (jeans)
Boots with the fur (with the fur)
The whole club was looking at her
She hit the floor (she hit the floor)
Next thing you know
Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

"Luck Be a Lady" - Frank Sinatra - Vegas/gambling theme song

"Lucky" - Jason Mraz - just a fun song

"Lullaby" - Dixie Chicks - our wedding "gathering song" and one of "our songs"

How long do you want to be loved
Is forever enough, is forever enough
How long do you want to be loved
Is forever enough
Cause I'm never, never giving you up

"Lump" - Presidents of the United States - don't ask em where I first heard it, but I love it!

Lump lingered last in line for brains
and the one she got was sorta rotten and insane
Small things so sad that birds could land
Is lump fast asleep or rockin' out with the band?

Hope you enjoy them... maybe you'll add a little variety to your music collection...!