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I think I am addicted to The Learning Channel

created by PJ Jules

(idea) by PJ Jules (5.7 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Tue May 16 2000 at 7:31:20

I think I am addicted to the learning channel. I have been watching it for the past five hours. I can't even tear myself away from the damn telveision to come and log on to everything2. This is when I know things are bad!!! I am not joking about this either. I find that I cannot tear myself away from any TLC show revolving around Paramedics, Trauma: Life in the ER, Critical Incident, or Emergency Trauma. I will sit in front of the television, and watch the blood, the gore and the "adrenaline rush" of these shows, in hopes of picking up every juicy medical detail: how to take blood pressure, what the numbers mean, places you can actually insert an IV, how a skin graph works, terminology used in the ER, and surgeries. It all amazes me. I want to learn how to do it, I want to know it all, I want to do surgery. Today was a special day though. Today, I learned about thee trauma center of the country: University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. This is where the BIG DOGS work. And I mean big dogs. Anyone and Everyone with any critical medical problem in the entire state seems to get shipped/flown/rushed to this hospital. (And, I might add... it all happened within 60 minutes... :) just kidding. ) Apparently, Shock Trauma Center (STC) is considered the "Mecca of Trauma Centers". Whoa. The nights that TLC has the Trauma Marathons are the nights that I get no sleep whatsoever. This definetely qualifies as an obsession. I just want to learn everything. Now.

flamingweasel, I saw that one, and the guy lived!!! I thought that was crazy. Anyway, I guess we all know not to look for you on everything2 while Trauma is on, huh?

(idea) by flamingweasel (1.9 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Tue May 16 2000 at 8:08:31

We'd make fun of my mom. She'd leave the room as the clock struck 8...."Where you going, mom?" "Oh," she'd say, "it's time for Trauma." "Ewww," everyone would say. "That's such a gory/weird/scary show," we'd say as she walked upstairs.

Then, one night, I was housesitting. Having watched the movie I'd rented too many times already, I sat idly flipping around the channels.

Blood.

Lots of it. A guy was being wheeled into the CAT scan. I did a double take. The man had a 6 inch bowie knife embedded

to the hilt

in his HEAD.

Needless to say, after that I was hooked.


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