Registered....

Classes are all picked out and registered for.

This past weekend I volunteered at the Miami Hurricanes game at the Orange Bowl in the first aid station. I figured 58,000 inebriated kids on a Saturday night....surely it would be busy. Oh, how mistaken I was.

We had 1 guy come in 10 minutes before game time with a 1" head laceration from where his friend had closed the tailgate on his head in the parking lot. Then nothing until half-time, when a guy so totally inebriated that he was toxic came in. So he sat in the station until the Fire Rescue guys could come get him. That was it. What a let down. I hope they have more night games, so I can go some more.However, due to the lack of patients, I had ample study time, and read all about TB.

When I was a teenager I used to volunteer at the OB. This was WAY back when the Dolphins used to still play there. It was wierd to be back there again after so many years. Somethings have changed so much, other things (like the WWII era hospital bed in the first aid station) stay the same. Last time I had gone there my cousin was 10 and tagging along behind my aunt and grandma, now he is 26 and runs a station all by himself.

Speaking of my grandma, she is not doing well. Her heart is dying. Her pacemaker is the only thing keeping it beating at all. I had come to grips with her mortality when she had a heart attack 5 years ago. I realize that she is not going to be here forever. But, imagining my life without her in it has me really down. She has had such a profound impact and influence in my life. She is the person in my family I admire the most, and would most like to be like. She has touched so many lives, and hearts. She is, literally, the glue that holds my family together. I love her so much. I found out yesterday that she may only have another 6 months to a year.

Aging sucks.

W.