Into a World of Insanity

Into a world of insanity, I am sailing my ship. As Seattle burns and people yell and shake their fists at one another, I wonder when this chaos will end? Probably never. The real end is the end of our way of life. Freedom....is an illusion. I used to not be afraid to drive across half of the country with only my 14 pound dog by my side. Now it is more advisable to carry something a little more lethal than a barker. I have upgraded since then to a 110 pound Lab who is a sweet-heart who will take your arm off if you reach in "her" vehicle, yet will lap you up with love if she is standing outside it with you. I also have my CHL and I keep myself protected at all times. I drive 22 miles back and forth to work, and 15 miles of that is the "dead zone" for cell service. Coming home between 1 and 2 a.m. basically the only road traffic is the drunks leaving the bars, oil-field workers tired and trying to get home, and me and the hogs that keep jumping out in front of my car!

So, insanity....or maybe age-related memory? Well, so yesterday I get to work and get my stuff ready to go in. I get my work shoes and put in a new bag (I take home to Lysol and clean every-day and only wear my street shoes in and our of the facility due to CoVid). I go to change into the unit scrubs (we still are not wearing any personal scrubs back and forth in order to not be bringing home extra germies), and I cannot find my darn shoes. Figure I had a senior moment rushing out of the car and set them back down in the seat. I change, tell co-worker that I will be back because I need my work shoes (no way are my canvas street shoes gonna support my feets for 12 hours of up and down the hallway!). I go out to the car, imagine my surprise at finding my lunch sitting on the seat...what the heck....where is my shoes...oh crap!!!!! Carry my lunch in, exchange it for my shoes in the refrigerator (still tied up in the bag). I nonchalantly pull them out, and put them on...and OMG they felt WONDERFUL, ice cold. LOL, so life is about the little things.

So this has been a busy week at work. I personally have cared for two CoVid positives, multiple ear aches, chest pains, abdominal pains (two of which turned out to be appendicitis and went for surgery), snake-bite that turned out to be a "nail" bite, We had a super crazy detainee from County that came in covered in blood...wasn't my assignment so I tried to avoid the screaming, spitting, blood slinging fiasco going on in the first pod. I don't know what kinda drug is going around out there, but the crazy has been deep lately. The last DPS DUI possible draw left me pretty traumatized. Gal decided to give me the CoVid cough (didn't even know that was a thang) and threatened to spit in my food at a local diner where she claimed to work (I have been there one time and wasn't impressed with food offerings....so pretty sure no worries about her spitting in my grub). Pretty sure the threats, coughing on me after pulling off her mask and trying to smear blood on me constitutes Assaualt on a Health-care worker...and I told her so. She was screaming and cursing and acting out for her audience (we of course were full and people were coming out of the woodwork to watch the show). I was just glad the officer had his body cam on. Someone finally called security who came and helped. Ms Cutie pie's hand-cuffs got moved from the front (a suggestion of detainment) to the back (which pissed her off more royally than she was originally). I was wishing we had one of those chairs they show on COPS where they put them in the chair and roll them into a room to kick and scream and spit until they get tired! Yup...jail detox was in her future

UPDATE: 5/1/21 Same OFFICER comes in and I ask if he remembers  the above incident....yup he says...I said...you had your body cam on for all that right???? He said "yup, and guess what?" "What?" I asked.... "well" he says " that incident is used as a training exercise for new officers...."....LOL...I am a STAR!!!!!!