December Snow!!

We got snow!!!!

It isn't even winter yet and we've had a major snow here North Carolina. We got about 5 or 6 inches here.

We went outside and played in it earlier and had a BLAST. DS loved the snow. My MIL stayed with us last night in case she lost power. Plus she thought she had to watch my SIL's kids but the place she worked was closed due to the snow. So DH, myself, and MIL stayed up late playing Shrek Operation and Monopoly (during which she creamed us). By the end of the game DH and I were giggling hysterically from being tired.

Of course I have pictures from the snow!












Christmas is less than a week away and i'm excited. My MIL called today and asked if I was missing a Christmas present from last year. I had no idea! She said that there was a pair of jeans in my size that was stuck inside a box. Apparently I opened the box last year and sent the boxes home with her, with my jeans still inside them.

Good thing too because I only have 1 pair of jeans I wear.

Currently I'm wearing a pair of hubby's plaid lounge pants and a long sleeved tshirt, also his. What can I say? They're comfy! I'd really love some warm loungy pants of my own though. I have some capris but of course it's cold so I need some longer pants. Maybe for Christmas?

CPR

As i mentioned in my last post, I took that ACLS class where we learn exactly how and when to perform CPR, when and what drugs to give during a cardiac arrest, or another sort of arrythmia.

Well, Friday I did something for the first time and i hope i never have to do it again.

I had to perform CPR on one of our patients in our wellness program.

He was in the program across the room from the ones being monitored in cardiac rehab. My coworker was teaching a strength training class and all of a sudden we hear "we need help we need help!" and i look across the room and 2 of my coworkers are holding a patient up in a chair. He had clutched his chest and passed out, losing control of his bladder in the process. I immediately jog across the room and press the CODE BLUE (read: get more freaking help!) button. A bunch of us went back to the patient and placed him on a stretcher. We were feeling for a pulse and i felt nothing in his wrist. He was completely unconscious. We get our code cart over to him and our respiratory therapist was bagging him and giving him oxygen. We were struggling to get him placed on the monitor so we could see his heart rhythm. By that time we established that we did not feel a pulse and he was not breathing. He was gray and sweaty. Our nurse practicioner climbed on top of the stetcher and began doing chest compressions. I relieved her after 2 minutes (learned this from class) and being doing chest compressions. Hard and fast hard and fast. We are told to do chest compressions to the rhythm of The BeeGees song "Stayin Alive". So finally we are able to get him on the monitor and see that his heart rate is very very low, about 30 bmp. He has a internal cardiac defibrillator with a built in pacemaker. So his rhythm is paced and very slow. We are still doing chest compressions and giving him oxygen via bag. One of my coworkers relieve me and she starts doing chest compressions.

All of a sudden he starts flailing around. He has regained consciousness and is wondering wtf is going on. We calm him down and check a blood pressure. His BP was fine, a little high actually. The code team had arrived and get him carted off to the emergency room.

I did not know he had a built in defibrillator until after the fact. But the nurse practicioner said she felt and saw him "jump" a bit, meaning his ICD was shocking him.

I was shaking the whole time i was doing chest compressions. I am SOOOO thankful that he had a built in defibrillator or he would be having one put in!

Surviving sudden cardiac death. Wow.