Going to be working tonight at Childrens. They have been scheduling extra staff for increased workload. That means that the hospital is very full of very sick kids right now. Seeing lots of influenza and more measles than I should ever have to see locally. Please vaccinate your kids.

Good news on the vaccine front.

Spent a crisp night in the woods last night. Lots of wood burned to keep the drafty cabin warm. It was so worth it to the escape from the grind.

RIP little finch. It passed away during the night. At least it was safe and warm.

Found female finch under our feeder acting strange. She has a little blood on her beak so she must have hit our window sometime today. To keep her from being killed by the local outdoor cats, she is now in our cat carrier with seed and water. Hopefully she bounces back and can be released tomorrow

Pierre PoiLIEvre is a D!€k: Part 143 Pierre you are a temporary foreign worker thanks to Battle River-Crowfoot for giving you someone else’s job. That sounds very DEI to me 😂😅🤣 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: What is that alarm?

One nice benefit of having my workplace located in the middle of a field. When riding my bike in the dark, occasionally you get treated to something cool like the northern lights. Not sure too many car commuters would have noticed this morning. It made for a nice start to the week. Happy Monday!

I know some people are disappointed about the women’s rugby team loss (they shouldn’t be because they were awesome during the whole tournament), but a Canadian woman named Magdeleine Vallieres, won the women’s road cycling world championship this weekend and I think that’s pretty amazing.

If there is one thing to be concerned about Tylenol, it’s not Autism. It’s accidental overdose and liver failure. I’ve seen it. Please follow the directions on the bottle.

For a guy who isn’t officially “on call”, getting called in once every 3 days this month makes me very concerned for the upcoming “busy” season. Another 13hr day starting at 2 am is making it hard to get to the 9 pm bedtime today.

I ran a 5 hour trail race today and now my legs are rejecting me. I really should properly train for this kind of stuff.

So many preventable deaths in the future will happen because of the willful ignorance of few people in power today.

8 degrees and raining for the bicycle ride home today. Is it weird that I’m looking forward to it?

Pretty nice view out of the window at work this morning. I had to get outside to capture this one.

It is crazy what decades of a terrible education system can do to a country.

Took the cat for a walk and it started to rain. Walk cut short #catsky

12-13 hr shifts are normal in healthcare and I do them often. Starting at 2 am for a 13 hr stretch is not normal and has kicked my ass today.

Well I stuck to my guns and left my phone on do not disturb for all of July. Didn’t go to work once and they mostly left me alone. Returning to work on Tues so decided to turn on phone but leave in silent. My bad. At work twice today because our health system is a gong show right now. Ugh

This is 50. Sitting on the deck in another province at the home of great friends. I’ve been through some stuff in my time. I am grateful to still be be here. I am thankful for great friends and family. Cheers to everyone!

We are in the east coast for 10 days and my 50th birthday. I am taking 4 weeks off in a row for the first time since grade 11. Phone is on do not disturb. This is very new territory for me.

I’m guessing everyone at the G7 is feeling relieved right now.

When I feel sad about cancelling our bike racing trips to South Dakota, I keep getting an almost daily reminder, that it was the right thing to do. It is bonkers south of the border right now.

We did our first trail run of the year and the girls enjoyed all the creek crossings. #dogsky

While the world dumpster fire burns, I’m going to take joy in the little things. Like basting chicken boobs with BBQ sauce, while grilling with a charcoal grill. #bbq

Just made the mistake of googling the population of my regional health authority. 232000 people with measles starting to surge with low vaccination rates. That can’t be good, right? Oh, for anyone that’s wondering, I am the only Respiratory Therapist currently employed in this health authority. Ugh

So are these section results for something or are we rejecting something? Legit question. Because if we’re rejecting something, we still need to hold the winning party accountable. No free passes on policy just because rejected the other party.

Having a okanagan spirits whisky while watching cbc election coverage with a red sweatshirt on is Canadian enough for me this eve.

Hopefully, today is the day that Canada flushes PP down the toilet.

Efforts are being made to slow the spread of measles in a region with Manitoba’s lowest vaccination rate, as cases of the highly contagious virus climb locally and across the country.

Looks like this will be a regular thing in my area going forward. I just hope we don’t start seeing Vit A toxicity here. The amount of Ivermectin and other covid “treatments” used locally, probably mean it’s more than likely to happen. #measles news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.h...

There’s a lot going on here.

Rainy ride home yesterday. Drizzling for the ride in to work today. Those May flowers better be spectacular.

And according to some in my local community, I should be dead by now with how many boosters I’ve had. No regrets for this guy.

When measles showed up in MB a couple of months ago, I was worried that we (Southern Mb) were going to gain notoriety again and be the epicentre of the disease in Canada because of our low vax rates. Still could happen but I feel Alberta has this covered. #measles

Angel food cake is the master of deception. So light and airy that you take a giant piece. Then you finish it and can’t move for an hour.

Had talked to someone who just came back from AZ for a month about how we canceled all US trips because we don’t feel it’s safe. They’re planning on going back and aren’t concerned about phones being checked because they don’t have any anti Trump stuff on them. 1/

Those skill testing questions they use for lottery tickets seem like they would be a good idea for voting ballots. Math is the universal language, right?

A certain leader losing his Carleton seat would be most enjoyable to watch.

I am really enjoying the creativity of protesters from yesterday and their awesome signs. I could never come up with anything clever. If we had protests against a CPC gvt, I would be spending hours trying to make a sign using Pee Pee and Va Jay Jay on it only to be unsuccessful.

This one hits close to home.

One thing I’ve carried over from that other site, is my innate ability to post something with spelling or grammar errors and having that post be the only post people read and share. I really should look more carefully at what I am about to put out into the world.

Just because you’re a hockey hall of gamer doesn’t mean you’re a good person. You were great at hockey. That’s it. It doesn’t give you a pass to support fascism. If you’re a hall of famer and support that, you’re just a great hockey player and a terrible human being. Canadian or Russian.

After watching what voting for hate did to the country south of us, I sure hope we have a majority of who vote opposite of hate in Canada. I’ll never understand the “as long as “they” get punished, I don’t care what happens to the rest of us” mentality. We should vote for what’s best for all of us.

Officially on vacation as of Friday and was supposed to be in Arkansas for a mtb trip this week. Cancelled that trip because America sucks right now. I’ve been called into work 5 times in the last 48hrs and now about to head into Wpg to go to ikea and Costco. Living my best life right now. Sigh

From the amount of seniors I’ve seen with Influenza A recently, I get really frustrated with the low vaccine uptake around here.

Vitamin A for viral treatment seems to be the new ivermectin.

Not sure how this happens and if you’re a RT, you know this happens way too frequently. It was clearly not communicated to our Maintenance staff either. I did get a chuckle from the note tho. #respiratorytherapyproblems #medsky

Dealing with kidney stones for the last 24 hrs is a good reminder of how much pain exhausts a person. I am completely gassed. #medsky