My yarny R2D2 looked lonely, but thankfully someone custom ordered R5D4 from me, and thus R2D2 had a friend!



Now they can fix machine parts happily together!  Visit my blog for more pics.  Thanks for looking!!

Tags: star wars

A very large one. All the random (presentable) crap I've done in the last 3 or 4 months.

Mostly originals, and a bunch of WoW sketches.

There's a bit of nudity in the figure drawings, but they're also figure drawings, so you'll have to make the NWS call for yourself.

( It really is large. )

Tags: art, fanart, original art
Current Mood: exhausted

A pair of pokeball earrings made from wooden balls and painted with acrylic paints! They're particularly fun when random people stare at your ears as if debating whether or not you do, in fact, have pokeballs hanging from your ears! 


(More on our lj)

Tags: crafts, earrings, pokeball, pokemon
Current Mood: bouncy

In the library of forms that one uses in the great state of Georgia, form number 1013 starts off with the words "Emergency Admission and initial civil commitment"

Funny how a number takes on a life of its own when you refer to it often enough. The classic combo of 5 mg Haldol plus 2 mg Ativan is now a "B-52", so named because it "takes out" any target you use it on. 20/20 vision. GCS 15.

A Ten-Thirteen is how you commit someone to the hospital against their will. Not uncommon in my line of work where we get overdoses, drunks in fulminant delirium tremens, and the occasional psych complaint in addition to heart failure and pneumonia. So issuing a 1013 form in the ER is routine.

Doing it from the clinic is significantly less common. So of course, I'm the only intern who has had to do it. Twice, now.

The first time, it was a very dear patient who was struggling with depression as I struggled to get them on the right combo of meds. They came in, worse than usual and I asked the Gryphon House approved question "Do you ever think about hurting yourself?" as I chanted to myself "Please say no, please say no..."

But they did. And they had a plan. And they had the means carry out their plan at home.

I trudged out to the work room, knowing what's coming next. An involuntary ride to the ER with our helpful neighborhood EMTs as they kept telling me "But you know me! You know how much I love my children, I'd NEVER do it!" As your doctor, I am obligated to see to your safety in the setting of self-harm, even if you don't want me to.

Our veteran attending kept telling me that I did the right thing as the ambulance pulled out of the parking lot, even as he knew I wasn't hearing a word.

I nearly cried when they showed up at the follow up visit. "I know you were just looking out for me Dr. Zechar, I'm not mad."

I saw them again today. Doing so much better. God Bless Elavil.

But Fair warning: if you ever offer to see a fellow resident's work-in patient in clinic because they're swamped and it's 4:00? It WILL be a nightmare.

Which brings me to 1013 number two.

A routine check on how a patient was doing on their new SSRI depression med was met with a torrent of psychiatric issues - self harm, attacking family members, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, mood instability, even dissociative symptoms.

I had to tease the nurse who gave me the "shouldn't take you but a minute" patient when we were calling for EMS. "See if I do YOU any more favors!" :)

Happily, they went without any issue - but the 1013 was tucked in the back of the admission note, just in case. With the same attending physician's signature as the first ordeal.

Perhaps it's my psych background that helps me find more issues, or the crazy is simply drawn to me... either way, Dr. B has threatened to run away the next time I try to staff a patient with him.

Sherlock Holmes 2009 edition of my fannish snowflakes. (Paper + scissors)




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