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On Wednesday I attended the funeral of my friend and coworker Liza.  She was one of the most loved nurses in the unit I worked at.  I worked with her closely on my last day at Summerlin Hospital.  Last Friday I stated to get calls from the unit that she pasted away and to call back.  I thought the call was a joke till I got more calls.  Liza was a great person to work with, always in a good mood and singing along with the radio when we where sitting around the nurses station charting.  Her parents just happen to be visiting from the Philippines and staying at her house till there visa expires.  Her mother checked on her because Liza should have been up getting ready for work. Her mother found Liza unresponsive and called 911. Her house was within walking distance from Summerlin Hospital so Liza was taken to our Emergency Department.  The E.D. was unable to resuscitate her, did not give my unit any information or allow us to view the body before the mortuary picked her up.  It was difficult for me to accept that such a wonderful lively person was gone till I went to the viewing and looked at her lifeless face.  I hope someday I can be half the nurse Liza was; she was one of the best

Liza's obit- www.legacy.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx


 

My Nurse Assistant Certification came in the mail the other day! I am now officially certified by the state of California to wipe ass and clean viginas. My CA certification is just a cheap paper card from the Department of Public Health. My card from Nevada State Nursing Board is nicer and looks like an ATM card.

Cert Number: CNA 007XXXXX
Cert Title: CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT
Effective Date: 2009-05-28
Expiration Date: 2011-08-07
Status: CERTIFICATE IS ACTIVE, EMPLOYABLE

http://www.applications.dhs.ca.gov/cvl/SearchPage.aspx

Time for house hunting and job searchin'...

Bed pans, changing dippers and wiping ass. Oh my!
 

Tonight is the last night I work at Summerlin Hospital. I gave my two week notice last week but next week I have scheduled time off because I’m a volunteer stagehand for the big burlesque weekend.  I have worked the past three years in the Rehabilitation Unit. Physical Rehab not drugs. Rehab clients are not any harder or difficult than other patients they just have different needs.  I am ready for a break from providing those basic needs for other people.  I am just a little burned out working at a for profit hospital and the profits first not the patient mentality.  Ready for something different when we move back to CA.

This morning I drove down to Needles, CA to get Live Scanned (finger printed). It was a choice of driving to Barstow the arm pit of California or Needles the taint of the state. I arrived almost two hours early for my scheduled appointment at the Sheriffs station so I drove around a bit. It must have been laundry day because most of the pedestrians I came across had large trash bags full of stuff slung over there shoulders. A good number of houses had junked cars out on the front “lawn”. Lots of commercial buildings where boarded up.  It was not so much a scary place it was just sad seeing such tremendous poverty and not much future or growth for the citizens of the perineum of the GoldenState

I’m very bias towards urban living but I still have dreams of having a large property some place up in the Sierras will enough land to long range target shoot rifles off the back porch, have bonfires, farm Christmas trees and mine for gold.  

Life is too short to drive a mundane car.

So I have been getting some fresh paint on my car. I’m kind of intimidated that my little car will soon be sharing Bay Area roads with some of the most famous artcars and infamous mutant vehicles out there. I’ll be working hard on her till the end of June to get her ready for her San Francisco début. Then, is summer I hope I’ll have the time to make improvements and modification before the www.howberkeley.com parade.

Amused? If you like what you see add kinetosis

Caryn and I are coming home soon!

Home for us is the San Francisco Bay Area. Around the first of July we will be driving out of the desert, across the central valley and head for the North Bay. Caryn will be completing the clinical portion of her schooling in Santa Rosa for 4 ~ 6 moths. So we are looking for a place on the east side of Santa Rosa close to the clinic we will be interning at.

If anyone knows of a pet friendly, short term, house that is available for rent in Santa Rosa, CA hook us up. We posted a Craig’s List add but no luck yet- 

I deleted my MySpace account. I prefer blog oriented social networking versus social networking for the sake of eating up bandwidth. So on with it…

Ride your motorcycle or scooter on this day to demonstrate:

• The number of motorcyclists to the general public and to politicians.
• That motorcyclists are from all occupations and all walks of life.
• That motorcyclists can reduce traffic and parking congestion in large cities.
• That motorcycles are for transportation as well as recreation.
• That motorcycling is a social good.