Work was pretty gnarly the last couple days. We were slow all day, but ran calls all night long. My dumb ass needed to watch live tennis, so I stayed up pretty much all night. 5 hours of sleep in 48 hours is not ideal. Wednesday night we went on a car crash where a lady jumped her car off the road "Dukes of Hazzard" style right into a tree. She was trapped in her car for 4.5 hours before somebody found her. It took firefighters another hour to cut her out of the wreckage. She ended up having a crushed pelvis, a massively deformed left femur, and a really greusome open femur fracture on her right leg, with bone and fat and muscle and blood and leaves and dirt and glass inside the wound. She also had serious bruising across her abdomen, indicative of internal injuries. She was really f'ed up, and had no blood pressure when i found her, but managed to get a nice stable B/P by the time we arrived at the hospital. Its nice to run a really critical call and kick ass.
Last night I almost got in a fight with a drunk old guy. He wanted to "dance" and got in an old school boxing stance and took a swing. He didn't connect, and I told him we could box once we arrived at the hospital.
Cross Worlds are this weekend, as is the Australian Open finals. A fine weekend for sports.
Cyclocrossworld.com has a cool section called "Bikes of the Super Stars." There are some cool bikes in there. It's funny how different cross bikes are. Some guys use clinchers, others tubulars. Some bikes have deep carbon wheels, while others are more traditional. Some bikes have narrow canti brakes while others have wide, mud-shedding cantis. Double rings and singles. Pro road bikes are all pretty much the same, but cross bikes differ wildly.
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