Viusally Challenged

This has been such an insane week! Next week is so busy: a mandatory class for work, I picked up an extra shift for a friend, and Jen is leaving for Jamaica for 2 weeks. So, I thought that I wouldn't pick up any overtime and just have a nice, quiet week. Spend some time with Jen and try to squeeze in some girl time while I was at it. That was the plan, anyways. Of course it didnt' happen. My schedule got changed at the last second and I was on for Sunday, Monday, and Wednsday instead of my usual Tuesday. We were short-handed on Tuesday, so I offered to help out some.

My buddy next to was getting a new patient from the recovery room. The patient care techs from the floor he was previously on, brought down his belongings before he got there. They included a prosthetic leg (he is an amputee) and a shiny, apple red scooter. That should have been clue #1! The techs from the other floor just sort of throw everything into the room and we didn't pay much attention. When the patient got to the Unit, I helped Eileen move him from the stretcher to out bed. We were moving around alot and the candy apple red scooter was just in the way, so Tammy (our tech) decided to just shove it forward. Well, that plan backfired, because the chair back she was pushing on collapsed and nearly sent her flying across the now demon possessed scooter.

I decided I needed to help Tammy. It took the two of us a couple of minutes to figure out how to turn the dang thing on. We finally did get it to start, it rolled backwards over poor Tammy's foot! I asked if she was okay and she said "yeah", and we again started on the mission. We pulled on the other lever. She was behind the scooter and I'm in fron of it. Or, at least I was for a few minutes. The next thing we knew, she was laying across the front of the scooter (again), and I'm pinned between the tower in the room with wire baskets cutting into my back and the scooter. I was completely unable to breath!! Not because I was hurt, but because I was laughing SO hard!! I mean I was literally doubled over I was laughing so hard. I wanted to explode because we were trying to hold it.

Another one of my co-workers walked in at that moment, came over and looked at the speed obssessed scooter and said " Silly girls. You gotta turn the speed down from the tortoise to the hare. Then it won't get away from ya". These directions came complete with a dial with pictures of the infamous creatures on it. Sometimes, it helps to look at the machinery before you operate it...