I’ve taken a short hiatus from DJI as a result of higher-than-usual work loads at hospital. The next month may (or may not) be spotty thanks to the fact that I am working in the intensive care unit, where we see the sickest of the sick. Last night was one of the roughest nights of “call” I have been on in the longest time, which was capped off by seeing a gentleman brought in after trying to kill himself.

His method of choice was drinking two and a half cups of anti-freeze.

Now, drinking anti-freeze can kill you by a few means (such as kidney failure) and sure enough, when he arrived his level of consciousness fell to the point of requiring artificial ventilation (because he fell so deep into a coma we thought he wouldn’t be able to breath on his own). We then had to clean out his blood by hooking him up to a dialysis machine.

What was rather interesting is that most times getting a person hooked up to a dialysis machine requires one giant tube hooked into one of the major vessels; when someone has a poisoning or overdose issue, you have to hook up *two* giant tubes. One in one side of the groin, and the other, in the other side.

We’re hopeful that we saved his kidneys, as the dialysis was slowly working as we were able to get the level of his anti-freeze levels in his blood to almost zero after only a few hours.