I Work and Live in a Freaking Circus
Michael Jackson Pukes in my Hospital
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I live in Santa Maria, California. I am a nurse at Marian Extended Care Center, which is right across the street from Marian Medical Center.
Today, Marian Medical Center became one of the most famous (infamous?) hospitals in the country. This is because it's the hospital where Michael Jackson ended up when he started hurling on the way to court this morning.
My poor little town has never seen anything like this. It's bad enough that we're having to put up with the worldwide media descending on us for the trial (BTW, the courthouse where it's taking place is less than a mile away from my apartment), but they descended on our one and only hospital today, completely disrupting our jobs and our patients' lives.
Both the main hospital and the extended care center where I work were in lockdown today, and the hospital press conference that took place at about 1:30 this afternoon Californa time took place in our facility's conference room. It was amazing and downright infuriating to see the reporters and the technicians running amok in the front of our facility, waiting for the ER doctor to make his way across the street. And we even set out coffee and cookies for them.
When I left work this evening, the entire street in front of our facility was wall-to-wall with satellite trucks, and reporters and technicians are staking out the hospital just in case Jacko leaves in the middle of the night. Argh.
So, hello from Circus-Town!
Today, Marian Medical Center became one of the most famous (infamous?) hospitals in the country. This is because it's the hospital where Michael Jackson ended up when he started hurling on the way to court this morning.
My poor little town has never seen anything like this. It's bad enough that we're having to put up with the worldwide media descending on us for the trial (BTW, the courthouse where it's taking place is less than a mile away from my apartment), but they descended on our one and only hospital today, completely disrupting our jobs and our patients' lives.
Both the main hospital and the extended care center where I work were in lockdown today, and the hospital press conference that took place at about 1:30 this afternoon Californa time took place in our facility's conference room. It was amazing and downright infuriating to see the reporters and the technicians running amok in the front of our facility, waiting for the ER doctor to make his way across the street. And we even set out coffee and cookies for them.
When I left work this evening, the entire street in front of our facility was wall-to-wall with satellite trucks, and reporters and technicians are staking out the hospital just in case Jacko leaves in the middle of the night. Argh.
So, hello from Circus-Town!
