Obligated, Injury, Aspirator, Electricity

I feel obligated, because I mentioned Tina's birthday, to mention that it is my birthday today. Part of God's amazing plan for our lives was that we be in the nursery together as babies. Since we were born in the same hospital and only two days apart, we were together at birth and didn't meet up again until we were 14. We have no pictures to prove it, but Tina's mom remembers a large baby (me - at 10lbs 5.5oz). Here are some of my best shots:

The best cat in the world playing with a blue highlighter:


Then sleeping/older:


Dog #1, Yellow Lab / Terrier mix


Dog #3, Great Dane


Acting like a mechanic before I became a real-pretend one in Haiti:





This shot was on Caddie Day where I used to work. I caddied for one of my two best bosses I ever had wearing this outfit:


Injury

This happens every day I am sure. Someone with a massive infection comes into our hospital. This day, I happen to be at the hospital to capture this painful picture:


Aspirator

The reason I was at the hospital was because there was a broken piece of equipment that they wanted repaired (Blogger rotated my image on me).


If you know your medical devices (which I did/do not), this is an aspirator for sucking up blood and liquids when doing surgeries (the SmileTrian folks who left yesterday mentioned that it did not work). I found the reason this aspirator didn't work. Someone got it working by bypassing the shutoff float when the container gets full of blood and fluids. What does that mean? That means that the aspirator sucks up blood and guts into the machine and after a few times, that stuff dries up and renders the device useless. As I worked on the machine with the dried blood and guts, I prayed a number of times that I would not get sick or infected with anything. I had to take just about everything apart and clean it up. I did have rubber gloves, but after a little while they seemed pointless because I was touching all my tools with my rubber-gloved-hands. I don't know how long bad things can live being dried up on tools - I hope not long.

After I got the machine fixed, I brought it back to the hospital and guess what...they had another one that needed fixing. That one is in my shop and the problem this time seems to be with the motor. Although it didn't have the float either to stop it from sucking up fluids, it seemed cleaner but there was still dried blood in the tubing. I am not excited to work on it, but I cannot rebuild the electric motor because I don't have the parts or equipment (nor the skills). It seems that a bearing is shot because it looks out of alignment.

Electricty

Mr. Kyrk and I worked on fixing the electricity to one of our buildings. It appears that there is a break in the line at the pole because we weren't getting power to the meter for that building. We ran new line and hooked everything up except to this pole at the top - that will happen this morning before we turn the generator on.