NO PENNIES PLEASE!!!!

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Series 13 Issue #105

October 30th, 2013

H A P P Y    H A L L O W E E N !!!!!

Costumes have come a long way. The other day I went to a Halloween event with the girls in their pumpkin costumes. 

Man costumes have come a long way since my day. They are now made of all sorts of different materials and do so many things. I mean some had lights. There was a stay puft marshmallow man with a fan built in to keep him inflated. I remember how most years we had to decide if we were going as a ghost (a sheet) or a hobo (a handkerchief on a stick) or if we would get one of those plastic masks with the elastic string from Freds for 3.oo! I mean I remember when I was like 8 or 9 and Kooky Spooks was the most advanced costume around.

                                                    

"BIG 11 IDEAS FOR HALLOWEEN COSTUMES 2013"

11. Wear your normal clothes and go as a JERK! 

10. DUCK DYNASTY (you'll see about 1,000,000 of these 

       this year and everyone will think they are original) 

09. Someone is going to show up as that lady that almost 

       fainted behind the president the other day. 

08. The NEW iPad Air! (you can just wear the iPad  

       costume you wore last year, no one can tell the 

       difference.)

07. Miley Cyrus. (You (explicit) your (explicit) in the   

       (explicit)!) But you should get should decent candy. 

06. Crazy squishy face man. NOW GIVE ME SOME 

       CANDY!!!

05. A t-shirt that says "This costume was closed due to 

       the government shut down and will not reopen until 

      November 1st. (We apologize for any inconvenience.)"

04. A giant cow. There's nothing scarier than a giant 

       cow. 

03. Ron Burgundy (See the new Anchorman 2 trailer 

       now! ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdGI5-z_hg )

02. A doughnut. Cause I’ve never seen a doughnut 

       costume. 

01. Elvis. 

Callie pulls up, "won't be long" Dad exclaims. 

Last week while on vacation Callie, or Two as we call her sometimes, started pulling herself up on her feet. Anything she can get to she's pulling, the fireplace, the couch, the ottoman, the fridge, there's no stopping her now.

"You can just see the gears turning",  Said Jay Foshee, "She's trying to figure out this walking thing, it won't be long until she's walking. My guess is before Thanksgiving."

50/50 TRIVIA

Q. Pumpkins were not the original carved condiment on Halloween. Which of the following did people originally use on All Hallow's Eve?? 

A. Turnips.

B. Cantaloups. 

(answer below)

CORDIE'S QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"God, please let Mommy take me to the park."

TIDBITS

Sea Monster found off coast of California (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/18-foot-long-sea-creature-found-calif-coast) So how come we get SHARKNADO but this real creature can't get a movie? C'mon SYFI network get on the ball if you use your usual production standards this could be on TV in two weeks. The wife is all excited about the Dumb and Dumber sequel now shooting but for my money the only real sequel to get excite about is Jurassic World which is casting up (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/64649) not sure about Bryce Dallas Howard in a BIG movie the only other one she's done was Terminator Salvation but I don't blame HER for the decimation of that great franchise. 

MOVIES

Theaters 

-CARRIE- Remake of the CLASSIC horror film of the same name. Yes, classic, as in why would you mess with a CLASSIC!! It's the story of an odd teen(Chloë Grace Moretz) who develops telekinetic powers and takes revenge on the bullies who tease her. 

-ESCAPE PLAN- Used to be you couldn't walk down the street and hear about a movie with either Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone if it were opening that week. Now here's a movie with both of them in it and nary a word. There's a REASON. Look at the un-original trailer and you'll see why! 

DVD

-KEVIN HART: Let Me Explain- I don't know enough about him to know if he's funny or not. I liked one of his skits on SNL but it didn't feature him and he laughed the whole time. 

-AFTER EARTH- Will Smith and SON(I don't know or care what his name is, yet) start in this movie about a father and son exploring earth after nature has overtaken man many years in the future. M. Night Shyamalan directs. 

SONG OF THE WEEK

SCARE ME- New Beat Fund. 

A. Turnips 

UNCODED

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Series 13 Issue #104

October 4th, 2013

"Is it true you never forget your first time?" 

I haven't been looking forward to this weeks issue. I've been dreading it all week since Sunday because I knew what this week's lead would be. I thought I would be able to write around it, or maybe by Friday I could bury the lead. Maybe by today it would be moved to page 6 under the picture of the girl in the bikini where know one would see it but no! It's time. 

I've had a pretty rough week this week. Not just because I'm trying to switch my sleeping/awake schedule from nights to days but because on Sunday, my last official night, I lost my first patient. I've been in codes before but this time it was my patient. Sometimes I'd had the people who coded as patients but it was someone else's patient at the time.

It's an odd thing when people die period. This was harder because my patient went pretty quickly. I'm really forbidden from talking about the details due to HIPPA laws but this isn't about what happened. This is the JAY FOSHEE Gazette, and this is about how I'm dealing with it. 

I tweaked my back trying to get the patient on the headboard so we could get good compressions so I've been in a nice 4-5 (numerical scale) pain and had to call in the next day. I look back now and think this was a mistake. I think getting back on the horse. Not just that horse but a new "wilder" horse they call the DAY SHIFT (cue scary music!) has helped a little. I have definitely run the gambit this week as far as emotions go, everything from I don't want to do this anymore to I'm coming back with a vengeance and I'm going to be the BEST NURSE EVER!!! I'M GONNA BE SUPERNURSE! THIS CANNOT, WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!!! But it will! The odds are not in my favor on that. In fact I was part of a code my first day back. The number of patients I see in a year, the floor I work on and as years go by, it will happen again. The house always wins the longer you play! 

If you are a Christian, as I am, it brings of some interesting points of faith. At least it has for me. I'm not questioning my faith, it's not WHY GOD?? it's more of questions along free will vs. choice. Could anything I did or have done made a difference?? Was it the patient's time? Could I (and I mean WE cause there were like 20 people in there with me!) have done anything to change the outcome. Could WE have bought the patient a few more hours, days? Could the patient have survived and walked out of the hospital?? I don't know. 

Some things I did great, somethings I could have done better. Will it make me a better nurse? I don't know. I know what will/does make me a better nurse and that's the men and women that I work with on CVSD and Baptist Memphis Hospital. I turned around and had a handful of people helping and by the time we got CPR started we had a roomful. Of course, my judgment of time is off since it stopped for a few minutes. My teammates were great afterwards helping me finish my shift and picking up my patients for me while I tended to the family and the paperwork.* For me to personally thank any of them would do a disservice to the rest Cause I honestly couldn't tell you who was in there and who wasn't I was trying to focus on the patient. But my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all of my night shift coworkers for all they did! 

ADDED* I don't make notes before I write but maybe I should start. I also meant to mention that I would like you to join me in praying for this family. They are going through one of the worst weeks of their life. Someone they love has died. 

*I thought there'd me more paperwork! 

CORDIE'S QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"I hope there's cookies in there!" - As she reaches into a bag of potato chips I was eating out of.

TIDBITS

MOVIES

Theaters 

-GRAVITY- The space shuttle breaking apart looks amazing! The reviews are great but the thing that makes me doubt is they only show the same 3 scenes over and over. Looks like all the action takes place in about 10 minutes in the 20-30 minutes in and then it's another hours of not quiet as cool, or good. Although every review says see it in 3-D on the biggest screen possible. 

DVD

-THIS IS THE END- The Judd Apatow group is back and this time they poke fun at themselves by playing themselves in an end of the world scenario. So if you think their funny, this will be funny. I personally don't think Seth Rogan is as funny as he thinks he is. 

SONG OF THE WEEK

Champagne Supernova- Oasis