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About Me

I'm happily married with no children. The only mothering I do is to my cat.I've worked in health care all my life, most notably driving an ambulance as a volunteer EMT/CRT for two Anne Arundel County fire department's for 16 years. I've also worked at BWMC (formerly North Arundel Hospital)for over 25 years. I started out in as a cardiology/EEG tech for my first 19 years, a ED revenue tech for 6 years and now a HIM coder.I love to learn and I'm always taking a class in something. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

I'm a big internet geek. Lately, I've been into watching & rating movies so I joined Netflix and Flixster. I'm also interested in all aspects of healthcare, firefighting, OCD and Depression

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I'd like to meet:

George Clooney! I don't always agree with his liberal politics but he's a decent person and so fine looking! I even ran a website called Clooneyfan.com for 7 years until it became too expensive and time consuming to keep up.

Music:

Pop, classic rock and female vocalists. Current faves: Nickelback, Alanis Morissette, Michelle Branch, Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Sixpence None the Richer, Celine Dion, Fergie

Movies:

I'll pretty much watch anything except horror and anime. My favorite movies are Shine with Geoffrey Rush, Awakenings, Cider House Rules, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption, Elling, Back to School, Ambulance Girl, A Beautiful Mind, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

Television:

Currently: Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Rescue Me, ER, Scrubs, and Law and Order. I think I've also seen every Seinfeld, Friends and M*A*S*H episode ever made.

Books:

I usually stick to reading rag mags such as People magazine and the Globe. My all time favorite books are "Report from Engine 82" by Dennnis Smith and "Only When I Laugh" by Erica Abeel.

Heroes:

My husband and other firefighters who put their ass on the line every time they go to work. I'm also grateful to our police and military.

My Blog

Winner of the Stupid Name Contest

Le-a How would you pronounce this child's name: "Le-a" ???Leah?? NOLee - A?? NOPELay - a?? NOLei?? Guess Again.It's pronounced "Ledasha." Oh yes...you read it right.This child attends a school in Liv...
Posted by Ida on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:01:00 PST

Bill the plumber

The stopper to our bathroom drain has been broken for years. So we threw it out and now it is open all the time. I am always dropping stuff down it. Usually it is unimportant stuff such as p...
Posted by Ida on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:02:00 PST

Justice for Nicole and Ron

Thirteen years to the day that OJ was acquitted of killing his wife and her friend, he is found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. From what I've ...
Posted by Ida on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:07:00 PST

Good-bye Emergency Dept!

It's been two weeks since I've been job sharing (working 3 days in the ED and 2 days at my new job in HIM Coding). I really like it. I'm slow as molasses but I'm learning a lot and doing more and more...
Posted by Ida on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:12:00 PST

Antivirus 2008

Bill's computer is really fucked up with this trojan/ malware. It keeps on giving us this Antivirus 2008 popup and telling us we are infected. It takes us to a link to buy it but I kno...
Posted by Ida on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:20:00 PST

Nortons Antivirus is worthless

Bill somehow managed to get a virus downloaded on his computer. Technically it's not a virus I suppose but it is called Adware.VirtuMonde. It is an adware program that pretty much disables y...
Posted by Ida on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:06:00 PST

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy

I started my new (part-time) job on Wed. Of course, I have a terrible, terrible head cold so I was coughing and hacking all over the place. Other than that, it seems incredibly interesting. I'm kind o...
Posted by Ida on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:54:00 PST

Old Hospital Stories

Someone left a flier next to my computer this morning. Apparently, Karen H is looking for people to write her a story about work. It didn't say what she wanted to do with them. I already have the...
Posted by Ida on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:29:00 PST

Baby Doll tops look like maternity clothes.

While on vacation, I decided to hit the outlets to see if I could find some regular clothes for this part-time coding job that starts this week. I normally wear uniforms to work but I think&...
Posted by Ida on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:28:00 PST

Medical Misspellings

For the past month, we have been keeping track of most of the misspelled words that we see charted. Most come from registration but there are a few from the RN's. We made them into a list and posted t...
Posted by Ida on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:05:00 PST