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I am going to be a punk, and copy what Chris and Jeff are doing...But I'm not saying that I'm gonna add something new each day. I don't have that much time. Well...actually I do have a lot of free time. This is my first time trying out HTML, and I don't know if I like it or not. Pratho says its a lot easier to add stuff on my website, so I decided to give it a try. Wish me luck!!!
The Date today is May 17th, 2002
Yesturday my sister left the country, and won't be coming back for ten weeks. She went to Germany to further her mind of her different cultures. I know I will miss her, but not that much. Not that I don't like her or anything, but the fact IS, is that she's never home anyway. It won't be much of a change. I have to take care of her damn cat, which isn't so bad i guess--> I usually HATE cats, but this one is a cool cat. His name is Simon, and he doesn't act like those other hose cats that rubb up against your legs, and feel like they don't have any bones in their body. I like Simon, because he minds his shit. He's not always bothering you like those other damn cats. Well, the truth is, RIGHT NOW I am at work, taking a little break from it all. I just got done doing 6 EKGs back to back ALL WOMEN OVER 75. Not very good, but oh well. I like where I work, and I wouldn't trade my job for anything else in the world.
Oh shit...you don't know where I work, huh?
Well...I work at the Memorial City Hospital (the one by the mall) in the Emergency Room. The job is GREAT experience, and I have been here for about 11 monthes now. The pay is ok, and all of my co-workers are cool. The things that i do in the ER are things like take vital signs, do EKGs, paperwork, and patient care/transport. Its pretty fun. I enjoy it. Well as for my day of HTML writing goes, i'm done for today, and I guess I'll try to remember to write something else tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, until my fingers cramp up due to all the typing. See ya then!!!
This is the song of the week, since its the theme song from my favorite show-->Smallville, and the Season Finale is on this week.
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Remy Zero - Save Me
May 19th, 2002
Well, last night, I went to a graduation party for Brecklyn Kenney, Brandon Frederick, Alison Bing, Garrett Bredenkamp, and two other people that I don��t know. It was ok, but it was a pool party, and it was frikin' cool!!! I got to see a lot of my old high school buddies, and we talked. All of us class of 2001 and before that people were the last ones to leave-->on't ask me why. I got home at about 12:30 after I stopped by at Kroger to buy some water. I played Resident Evil for about two hours, got pissed, and then came upstairs to talk online. I stayed up until 4:30 checking my e-mail and chattin' with random people. It was fun. OK..and now for today's entry.
Well, today my dad woke me up at like 10:00 for breakfast. I woke up right away, and the truth is, I was wide awake at that moment. I went downstairs to have a ham and cheese omelet, and some toast. I went back upstairs, and fell back asleep. I didn't wake up again until 2:15. I went downstairs, watched the rest of this 80's movie that I forget the name. I then went back upstairs, and took a shower. And that's where I am right now. It is 3:28 according to my computer, and I'm about to go to Willowbrook Mall to buy crap that I don't need. I'll write more when I get back tonight.
I'm back from the mall, and I bought two shirts from Old Navy, and two shirts from JCPenney. I needed SHIRTS to wear in the summer, because all I have now are like light sweaters and collar shirts. I watched The Season Finale of The Simpsons, and then made myself a dinner-->Mac and Cheese. After my mom got done with Survivor, she then colored my hair back to blonde. I'm watching Everybody Loves Raymond now, and I'm gonna go to bed soon to get up for work tomorrow. Good night all!!!
May 20th, 2002
Well, it is 4:43 right now, and I'm still at work. I'm kinda pissed, becasue I just found out that my ticket to go anywhere in the U.S. has expired. I was SUPPOSE to go visit my best friend, Johnny Salinas in Chicago but since it expired, I can't now. I'm really mad, but oh well...there's no sense staying mad over it. Right? RIGHT. In the ER today, there was an exciting but sad thing that happened. In the CCU waiting room, there was a volunteer helping a patient get out of a wheelchair that passed out WHILE helping. The hospital called an MET, and all of the doctors rushed up to try to save his life. They quickly rushed him into a room in the Emergency Room to try harder to improve his situation. After about 30 minutes, they had to give up, and the patient expired right there. Its sad that someone died while helping another person that is getting treated in the hospital. I assisted the nurses in the morge, and that was kind of depressing. I'll add more when I get home, but for now, I bid you GOOD DAY!!!
May 21st, 2002
Ok, ok...i never got to writing when i got home last night, but come on...I worked for eight hours after receiving my treatment. Gimme a break. Well, I was off today due to having my chemo treatment. I take off everytime I get my chemo treatment. Don't worry...its not an extreme dosage of chemo like the kind the luekemia patients receive. The only reaction that I get is minor bladder irritation. I still have all my hair, and it doesn't make me nausious. Well after my chemo, I drove back home to have lunch. i didn't get back until 1:40. I got home, and my dad ate all of the bread that was left, and didn't leave me any. So I had to use what I had...Tortillas, Mozerella Cheese, American Cheese, and Salami. I made myself a little salami and cheese quesadilla. It was actually pretty good. After I ate, I went to Kroger to cash in my change that was in my tazzy bank. I had about $35.00 or $36.00 dollars in change, but I only got $32.02, because you have to pay for those stupid coinstar things. Its like 8.9 cents per dollar. Well after I got my $32.02 I went back home. The time now was about 4:30, and I needed time to check my e-mail, and watch The Simpsons. After The Simpsons, I decided to get up, and start my goal to lose weight. I drove to the trail across from Patterson Road and Highway Six, and rollerbladed 5.4 miles (That's from Highway 6 to Barker-Cypress and back to Highway 6 again). I felt good after that, because I don't usually work out, and it made me feel like I was actually acheiving something. I know it will take a few monthes to actually see some improvement, but I won't mind waiting. When I got back home, my mom asked me to pick up my new prescription from Eckerd. A full bottle of 10 mg Prednisone. Oh...by the way-->my doctors are reducing the amount of steroids (prednisone) I get and they are reducing the number of times I come in for my treatment. Click here to see how they are reducing my medecine and treatment. I went to Eckerd, and it turned out that I had to wait 45-60 minutes for it. So I just walked around Eckerd that whoe time. When I got back home, my mom had cooked some ribs, and I ate about four of them with rice, green beans, and spinach. Right now, I am watching the Season Finale of Smallville, and updating this page. I'm gonna go now, and I will be back to update you guys again tomorrow. Lataz!!!
May 22nd, 2002
Well, once again, I'm here at work...just sittin' here waiting for someone to tell me to do something. Last night sucked...I couldn't get to sleep, and when I finally DID get to sleep, my sister's cat jumped up on my bed, and woke me up. I finally fell back asleep at 3:30. Today, I am really tired, but that doesn't mean that I'm not gonna work out tonight. I think I'll just rollerblade around my neighborhood when I get home. I know that to see improvement, you must not skip any days, and keep striding towards your goal. I think I'll only go to the trail on Patterson Road on days that I work from 7AM to 3PM. Since it gets dark at around 8:30 or 9:00. I work from 7-3 on the days that I don'thave my plasmaphoreisis, and that will be occuring a lot more now that I'm finally getting off that shit. Nothing really exciting has happened yet today in the ER. I did a few EKGs, and did A LOT of paperwork. I was doing paperwork for FOUR HOURS. I don't mind though...that just means more hours on my paycheck. I've decided that if I want to lose this weight, I have to start eating better. No more chili-cheese fries at lunch. No more stuffing my face with Steak, Lamb, or Ribs at dinner. And most importantly...NO MORE HIGH SODIUM THINGS!!! I.e.-Pickles, Spam, etc. You people must understand...I USED to be a skinny little kid, with no jellyrolls, and only one chin. The steroids that the doctors put me did two things...
1. Made my face puff up a shit load, and made me grow an extra chin.
2. Made me crave more and more food. When my stomach could feel that I was full, my mind kept on telling me that I was hungry. So I just kept on eating until I was on the verge of vomiting it all up.
At my last hospitalization, I gained 30 pounds in three weeks. I HAVE actually lost SOME weight on my stomach, eversince they took me off the second dosage of steroids, but the fact still remains that I am still fat. I went from size small boxers, to medium, and then to large. The large ones are a little too big for me right now, but the mediums are perfect. My waist has grown also. I used to be able to fit comfortably into a size 32 waist, but now, I have to undo the button, and just wear then with the zipper up. My goal is to fit into those pants again, and fit into my shirts again. I don't want to buy a brand new wardrobe just because I gained weight from my medecations. That money could go to something productive like college...or video games. Hehehe. Well, I think I've talked your ears off enough for this day, so I'm gonna see if there's someting for me to do. If I'm up to it, I'll add more once I get home. Lataz!!!
Well, I just got home, and it has come to my attention that I write too much on this site. So I've decided that I'm gonna tone it down. Tomorrow, it won't be as long. I promise. Good night!!!
May 23rd, 2002
Ok people...this is gonna be short and sweet. I worked all day, and i'm tired, so I really don't feel like writing a lot. I just have one story to tell. Since I work in a hospital, there is always the occassional funny as hell story. Click here to read the story.
The song of the week is "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Kylie Minogue, because I had it stuck in my head for two days straight last week. True Story.
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Kylie Minogue-Can't Get You Out Of My Head
May 27th, 2002
Well...I haven't entered anything in a long while, and that's because I haven't really had the time to. An update-->I've been rollerblading every other day, and not losing any weight YET. Oh well...these things take time. I rented the movie, "The Others" on saturday night, and it was pretty good. It had a twist ending. I would recommend it to a friend...four stars. I slept all weekend, and slept almost all of today too. I was off. I recieve two units of blood tomorrow, and I am hoping that will be the last of THAT for a while. But if you still would like to give blood for me, feel free to do it. Just tell that that you want to donate to Jonathan Radke at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hostpital. Just if you're wondering, my blood type is A+, and I always appreciate a blood donation from the people that care about me. Well, I don't have a whole lot more to say, so I bid you people, GOOD DAY!!!
May 29th, 2002
This morning I woke up at 7:30 due to a low blood sugar, thinking that a simple SHIRT is the only answer to raise it back up. (when my blood sugar is low, I act like I'm drunk, and I act crazy). After I got it out of my head that a shirt won't do ANYTHING, I stumbled downstairs, and drank three huge glasses of Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice. My dad came back from the cleaners, and made me a couple of sausage and egg taquitos. I then took a shower, and got ready for my eye appointment at 8:30. I arrived at the doctors office at 8:45, and got stuck waiting for about an hour and a half before being seen. I was out of that office at 11:00 to go get two units of whole blood. After I got my room and everything, it was noon. The actual infusion of blood takes about two hours each bag, and it makes me sleep, since they DO give me Benadryl straight to my veins. The dream I had was WEIRD. Click here to read about the dream that I had. The time was 4:00 now, and I was free to do anything that I wanted. So I went to get an oil change at this Chevron place that I had a coupon for. When I got home, ate dinner (chicken and rice), and the I went to the new grocery store that replaced Albertsons. The place was PACKED. A lot of good deals though. When I got back home, South Park was on so I pretty much HAD to watch that. After staying downstairs for a few hours, I got tired of hearing my parents talk, and I went upstairs to my room. And that's where I've been since then. Of course being this late, the only people that I have to talk to are Rebecca Elizabeth Griffin and my best friend's brother, David Salinas. Well, its about to be two 'o clock, and I have work tomorrow, so I guees I'll let you guys go too. Lataz.
This is the song of the week..."At A Medium Pace" by Adam Sandler
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Adam Sandler - At A Medium Pace
June 3, 2002
Well, I'm here at work, waiting for Chris, because I had to drive him here and back. I don't really mind, since if I left at 3:15, the traffic would be a mess. He's waiting to get his picture taken for his employee identification badge, and I'm here updating my HTML page on a computer that suppose to be only used for applications. The ignorant bastards. HAHAHA. Well, work was OK I guess...I have a story, but its not funny enough to make it to my webpage. I might make a "reject-story" page when I have time to kill later, but for now, NO. The first day of orientation was today, and there are some REALLY good looking girls that are gonna be working here...having a job like I do, so they're my age <--AWESOME. Lunch was on the hospital today, since Chris got a few wooden tokens that is worth a free lunch. During orientation, the staff gives out these tokens like they were things that people give out a lot(<--I couldn't think of what I was thinking of). So that was the highlight of my day. Well, for now, I bid you GOOD DAY!!!
June 6, 2002
Well, it has been a few days, and nothing much has happened. I've been working all week, and today, when I got home, I slept until 8:30. THAT FELT NICE. A little story...
A woman that was fully ambulatory asked for a bedpan, and didn't want to walk all the way down to the bathroom. Now MOST people don't like the bedpan, and would rather break their legs walking to the bathroom than use a bedpan. I don't blame them. I've only had to use one of those once, and that was enough for me<--I won't go into detail wth that. Anyway...back to the story. This woman asks me to put the bedpan on the chair so she could SIT on it. So of course, I do it, becasue we pretty much have to do whatever the patient asks us to do. After I leave the room to give the patient some privacy, I gave her ten minutes, and i walked back in. She didn't do anything at all. So..I left the bedpan on the seat, and left the room. About ten minutes later, she pressed her call light, and said that she need someone to empty her bedpan. Now when I was walking up to the room, I was expecting some urine in the bedpan. I walk in, and this HORRIBLE odor takes me by surprise. She had diarrhea, and failed to tell me that. I almost THREW-UP. It was the most foul smelling shit that I ever had smelled...and it looked horrible too!!! So I holdmy breath for as long as I could, and I had to go out side for fresh air when I ran out of my own. After I took care of the bedpan, she says, "Can I have another one, with some washcloths?" Of couse, I had to do it. Then, ten more minutes later, there she is again...with her finger on the call light. I must've gone in there about five times to empty her "waste". THANK GOD, she went to her room before I had to go in there the sixth time. That was the story for today...Nothing else exciting happened. I've been running on my new treadmill everyday, about thirty minutes every time. I think i'm starting to lose weight, but that might just be in my head. Anyway, I'm goin' to bed, and I bid you all GOOD DAY!!!
Hey peeps...I've put my drum solo on my webpage now, so if you feel like listening for about three minutes and fifty minutes, you be glad you did.
Click here to hear my(<--are you HAPPY, Christina?) solo.