It has been a busy first week on pediatric emergency medicine for me as I’ve just finished a stretch of 7 overnight shifts in the pediatric ER at Children’s hospital. Thankfully I get a couple of days off before I do my last overnight shift for this block on Friday (Halloween…should be an interesting night) before switching to two weeks of day shifts. I have absolutely loved my time at Children’s so far. It has been a great place to work primarily because the staffing and resources are adequate to meet the needs of the patients that are seen there. While many of the nurses in the Parkland ER are stuck caring for 5-10 patients at a time, the nurses at Children’s are assigned no more than three rooms at a time and thus patients can be cared for a lot more expediently. In fact I’ve found that the number of patients that I can see in a shift has almost doubled with the extra staffing and efficiency of the system at Children’s. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for October, 2008
Lou Malnati’s And Our Appearance on the Travel Channel
In my last post, I had talked some about one of our favorite restaurants in Chicago for deep dish pizza – Lou Malnatis. We first discovered this pizzeria about 4 years ago when we we did a marathon 3500 mile trip that brought us through Chicago on the way to Kalamazoo, MI. Since then we have loved the pizza at Lou Malnatis so much that if were are within an hour of Chicago on a trip we will usually make a detour to stop at Lou Malnatis for some pizza and buy a couple extra to eat later when we crave authentic deep dish Chicago style pizza. Apparently because of our love for Lou Malnatis pizza we also go to make our first TV debut last November on the show Food Paradise on the Travel Channel. Read the rest of this entry »
Back From Michigan…2660 Miles Later
Sorry we have not posted in a while. We were on vacation the first week of October to visit my sister, Chrisly, in Battle Creek, Michigan and since we got back I’ve been working long days in Labor & Delivery at Parkland until today, which was my first day off since I got back to work. We had a wonderful time hanging out with Chrisly and enjoying the beautiful fall weather in Michigan. The leaves had started to change in Battle Creek although they were not at the height of their fall color but the kids still enjoyed getting to play with all the fallen leaves.
