Crashed

Would you believe it? The older we get, the more a bicycle crash hurts! Ouch, I say.

Crashed my bike
And now I'm hurtin',
It wasn't fun
Of that, I'm certain,
Worked the next day
Should have not,
My aches and pains
Need Icy-Hot.

Crashed my two wheeled
Transportation,
Just before
I made the station,
Made a left turn
Should have gone right,
Now I can barely walk
Or ride tonight.

Severely hampered
Range of motion,
I need Left leg
Hip, and shoulder lotion,
With Vicodin and
A cold Blue Moon,
I might be feeling
Better soon.

My Vastus Lateralis
Hurts,
Damaged
Capillary spurts,
Creating one big
Hematoma,
While my gut spits out
A foul aroma.

Did I contuse
My G.I. tract?
I'll get worried
If my stools are blacked,
That happened before
In two-thousand-six,
When I crashed because
Of those Asian chicks.

Crashed my bike
And my body too,
Every biker accepts
It happens out of the blue,
So hard to predict
This fickle finger of fate,
First crash of the year
Worse than a blind date.

Fibril_late;
7/18/14

Dental Dana 30

Dental Dana

Yes, she’s the best,

Better trained

Than all the rest,

She’s got that

Mesial Lingual down,

And her enamel skills

Are way uptown.

She knows your Dentin

And your pulp,

And exactly how

To make you gulp,

After filling your mouth

With seventeen tools,

Then saying, “Yes, I’ll go out with you

“Oh, April Fools!

How clever and coquettish

That dental lassie,

No doubt about it

She’s really classie,

And she’s got the creds

To name her price,

Do I have the nerve

To ask her twice?

Fibril_late;

6/25/14

Post-Vacation

Two weeks off.........I changed briefly, the job changed not at all. But not to worry, I had no expectations of that happening.

Berserking

Post-vacation, back to work

Another usual day,

Unpredictable berserking

For unsubstantial pay,

A bystander might disagree

Saying, Nurses are just highly paid waiters,

But this is like diving into a placid pond

To find it inhabited with gators.

Knowing how to tread water won't be enough

Olympic endurance required,

Hand-to-hand combat with battle awareness

And prepared for artillery fire,

Yes, these are the skills that will serve you best

After the day shift, waves their goodbyes,

At 5:31, all Hell will break loose

And we do what we do

So nobody dies.

7/17/14

Complications

My first day off on vacation, flying east on the plane, and I'm still downloading data from work into a poem; what a way to relax!

Turbulence

Versus laminar flow,

Creating eddies where

Velocity slows,

With platelet aggregation

Plus an endothelial trigger,

Clot formation should begin

Or blood loss gets bigger.

A late complication?

Toes fall off,

When you blast out

A sneeze or a cough,

Secondary

To the distal thrombus,

Near the bifurcation

Of the plantar rhombus.

Interventions and complications

Are like evil cousins,

Preferably avoided as long as possible

Sometimes showing up in dozens,

One must be always vigilant

Keep an eye out for those slippery snakes,

And after a few exposures

You'll have what it takes.

Fibril-late;

7/2/14