Last week at NEMC was really good. I had a really nice man. He came to the hospital with fever and SOB but he also had ESRD, DM, and his WBC was 4 and then dropped to 1.8. That evening they did a cholesyectomy and his gallbladder was gangrene. I was able to explain to him that he needed to get up and sit in the chair so that he wouldn't develop pneumonia or atelectasis, because all he wanted to do was lie in the bed. I told him that it would also help him expel the gas that was in his abd. and he said that he would wait until he had a room full of people before he expelled any gas - he was kidding. He also told me that he was in the marine corps and himself along with 5 other men ran over a roadside bomb and their truck exploded - he was the only survivor. He had sandbags under his seat and he said that those were what saved his life. I enjoyed getting to know him and his wife, they were very sweet people.