Punching glass
Its snowing large balls, mixed with rain. It poured all day after being foggy last night. The fog ate the snow.
A very busy night last night in the Emergency Dept. We had 14 psychs at end of shift. Another ETOH psych came in right at end of shift. We had them doubled up in rooms and in hallways. PD brought in a guy early. He was very ETOH and his wife wanted him committed. He wanted to fight the police but backed down from the Taser and came voluntarily. He wouldn't change but he let staff change him. He just sobbed.. He refused to talk to the nurse. The Lt. thought he would bolt at first opportunity, but he went to sleep. He looked Amish, with his under chin beard. I have dealt with his brother in the past. We had a guy come in all hyped on crack cocaine. He had punched an overhead glass globe and cut himself. When the paramedic patched him he stuffed some gauze from the dressing down his nose all the way into his throat in a a suicide attempt. He went into restraints and was medicated and went to sleep. Then a female came in who had barricaded herself in her bathroom and cut her wrist. While this was going on, triage called to report a homicidal patient in the waiting room. We stood by and he was eventually found a room, as they shuffle the lesser violent patients out of the psych rooms for the more violent ones.
