Another pretty weekend...

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As we continue our near record-setting stretch without measurable snow here, I found myself looking back at some postings from this time last year. Partly out of a general sense of nostalgia, but also partly to see if this Thanksgiving's demi-agitas with Eleanor's brother was just another example of Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Sure enough, Charlie managed to put his own indelible stamp- albeit a different one than this time- on last year's events, as well. The Memory Lane excursion was even more valuable for me, though, for it was this weekend last year that I (and several very appreciative connoisseurs of Teh Stupid among you, as well) discovered the motherlode of medical mishaps, the Bonneville Salt Flat proving grounds for countless future nominees (some already posthumous) for the Darwin Award, Emergency Room subclass:

Things I Learn From My Patients

Nearly a whole year of object-inserting, narc-begging, body-part-deleting patients have passed by, mostly in severe pain, since I last visited this site. That link is to the most recent page; you can then scroll back to the prior pages, getting so many of our shared national events from an ED standpoint, such as July 4th (lesson # 2714: if your bottle rocket does not light, do not use a propane torch to coax it along) and last year's Christmas (lesson #2605: if you've had the runs for 124 consecutive days, Christmas Eve is DEFINITELY the right time to come in and present, finally).  Most stupidity, of course, is far more timeless, such as one of the ones right before that one:

If you decide to OD on your friend's loritab, pass out, lockup the accelerator, miss your turn, and slam head on at 45 MPH into the EMS station, don't ask me to do you a favor and grab your cigarettes from your truck. You have caused more paperwork then you can imagine.  Of course he had no injuries, and got to spend the rest of the night with the nice man in the brown uniform and taser.

Enjoy them all. Carefully.