Fireworks And Leather Restraints

This was the view of the fireworks at work. There must have been a hundred different sites across the Valley where fireworks were shooting up from.

Most of the photos turned out like the ones below. They're interesting so I posted them, but that is not what the fireworks looked like. I'm not sure if that is good or bad.

My fireworks viewing ended early because I received a patient from ER in 4 point leather restraints. He was celebrating the holiday with alcohol and tranquilizers and it didn't agree with him. The paramedics had been called and they had scooped him off the floor at home and brought him in. Once here, he became combative and attacked a security guard.

ER doped him up and sent him to us. Security unlocked his restraints and deposited him with us. I can't tell you how thrilled I was. He seemed to be completely oriented and cooperative, so I didn't feel that I could properly restrain him, but it made me nervous not to. I just cautiously watched him and tried not to irritate him. He was good for me; I hope that the next shift does okay with him.

The supervisor came up later and wanted to know why ER had placed him in leather restraints. I said that it was because he had assaulted a security guard. That seemed like a good reason to me, but she just scrunched up her face like she didn't understand. She thought that I had said that the security guard had been insulted instead of assaulted. I decided to play along and told her that we are thin-skinned here and that we routinely put patients and their families in leather restraints if they insult us. I was kidding, but wouldn't it be nice if we could really do that?