JBInvolved

About Me

Well, life for the general public is good due to the fact that no one is dieing. Unfortunately, as sad as this may be, that makes life for me in St Louis kind of boring. I literally have the life of waiting around for someone to be declared brain dead in order to go to work. As depressing as that may sound when brain death happens that means I get to save lives.Anywhere from 1-8 individual lives as well as aiding to improve 100s of lives through tissue, bone, eyes and cartilage.

I am on call for the next 3 days and I am constantly checking my phone to make sure I’m not missing something and it is working. We have had one referral, a person that has the potential of going brain dead, in 2 days. Very strange and also kind of scary, at some point this is going to have to stop. When that happens, it could be insanity.

So what have I been doing? Yesterday I had a couple of meetings but I had taken the day off. One was regarding the conference we are putting together for Springfield in May about The Power of Donation. This will be the first conference that Springfield has ever had to educate clinical people in the region on their role in the process of organ donation. Isn’t that sad? I am mostly in charge of putting this together. I am very excited for this but kind of dumb to what it means to set-up, plan or create a lay-out for a conference. I can’t begin to fathom what this is going to entail. So far we are ordering 1000 save the date cards and 200 invitations. I just hope it is a success.

Oh, I wish I would have taken a picture of myself yesterday morning. I thought it would be a brilliant idea to put the hotel coffee cup under the spout to my coffee maker and be able to make my coffee a cup at a time. What I didn’t think about was the burner on the coffee pot and the fact that the Stryofoam cup would have melted. Good thing I didn’t have a blond moment and was able to realize that fact before I started brewing my coffee. So I sat and ate my breakfast with one hand and held the coffee cup under the spicket with the other hand while it brewed. I know, I am quite pitiful, but it was awful good coffee.

After my meetings I went to replace my coffee maker. I bet you would never believe that I went to Target and found the perfect, non glass, $25 coffee maker and of course they had none in stock. Just my luck this week.

Then I headed to lunch with my aunt at Olive Garden. Gotta love unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks. I then had to find another Target store  and was able to get the coffee maker I had my eyes on earlier. I also went ahead and got some freshly ground Starbucks Espresso coffee. It was so good this morning.

So 7am this morning started my on-call days and I was seriously getting bored. I went to the Magic House Museum in Kirkwood with my siblings and step-mom for a couple hours. I decided at one point to slide down a three story swirly slide with both hands full of stuff. I’m not 10 anymore, I know, but I sure thought it would be fun. I couldn’t control myself however when sliding and ended up flipping over and hitting my head as I went down on my back head first about half way through. Then my 23 year old sister was coming down on top of me. It was quite humorous, but my head sure has a bump on it.  Now I am sitting in the hotel room typing this. I have dinner plans tonight with some coworkers. Rough life. Trust me I know.