Tuesday, July 28, 2015

After Precious' visit

The photo was taken at 11:40. In the picture, I could see the beautiful sinus rhythm in the high 90's to low hundreds of Mr. Jungmann. His oxygen saturation was ideal at 98 to 100%.
At 1321, Mr Jungmann coded. This is my first and the last shot in front of beautiful sinus rhythms. 
It's my very first horrifying code blue experience. It's like a bucketful of ice was poured on me that moment I realized that the code was on my station. I almost wished I was the one coding myself. 
Mr Jungmann was a trauma patient. Weeks before he fell off from a 20 or 30 feet elevation. He was in the marines or a navy.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Mexican Revolution Reenacted

To me, Mexicans and Native Americans are one and the same. Referred to as Indios, Mexicans and Native Americans both belonged  to the indigenous peoples of North America. Native Americans such as the Kumeyaays were displaced when United States took position of the Norhern part of Mexico. Native Americans living in the unoccupied  part of country  remained to be called Mexicans. 

Saturday, July 04, 2015

July 4th Togo Blog

Land of Opportunities bring day of opportunity.  Here I am using the shade of a FedEx drop box and leaning on the UPS  dropbox next to it while waiting for the parade to begin.  It's my day off sandwich and I am consuming it with gusto seated at the last irrigated roadside lawns of Bernardo Center Heights Dr. Some nine years ago, I was in this same area, less than 100 meters from this spot, wishing I was a spectator to the parade. Instead, I was working at the Deli of Vons Safeway. 
The parade finally begins and there's Scott Peters like an old friend waving at me. I am probably one of many who waved  back acknowledging his payback time wave. I voted for him the second time. The first time I saw him on a parade, it was the gay pride parade at Hillcrest. 
Brian Maienschein followed. I bet he would not have won as congress representative in the 77th District if voters had to write his name in full. 
It was not much of the music the band played that attracted me. It's the diversity.