Well here is my first post of the semester and I'm going to tell everyone about the night i had at work on Friday the 27th of August. Well i was put on call at about 1 in the afternoon which means I'm not allowed to travel further then 30 minutes away from the hospital, which isn't so bad because i get paid to be on call. So anyways i got called in to the Emergency Room at about 4 o'clock because of a possible severed Femur fracture resulting from a gun shot wound. So when i get to work i see the patient is only 9 years old and I'm shocked! How could a 9 year old kid possibly have been shot in the leg? Well after we get him settled down and sedate him enough to were his pain is stable, we start asking him what happened and the cause of the wound because he had no parental supervision with him, the parents are divorced, the father was at work and the mom not around when he arrived at the hospital. So anyways the story goes his 15 year old brother shot him in the leg with a 12 gauge SHOTGUN! at a total of 8 yards away, pretty much point blank range. He says the reason he shot him was because his his younger brother the 9 year old wouldn't get him a glass of water! Now how crazy is that some serious psychiatric problems there in my opinion. So finally after we got all of the buckshot out of the kids leg 38 pellets to be exact we shipped him on the air-evac helicopter up to St.Louis. We had him in and out there in under 30 minutes, now that's some good nursing work there people. So there is my exciting night at work, let me know what you think open for opinions and comments.
Thanks, Jake
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