Heavy and feels good... OWW THE FLASH!
Notice something recognizable around my neck in this picture, perhaps the stethoscope that Blanca had around her neck? What happens when its kind of late at night, your too hot to sleep wearing a custom made lined PVC suit that a friend of yours ordered special for you, too hot to sleep wearing a lead apron or neoprene belts but you have a stethoscope that you have had your eyes and ears focused on for quite some time (pun intended) you grab it and wrap it around your neck of course! Apparently these stethoscopes from 3M Littmann keep that awesome rubbery smell forever no matter how many times it is cleaned which is a good thing since it’s not mine so I decided to wipe it down with my foaming Alcohol cleaner when I woke up at 6 AM freezing and put on my lead apron. Anywho I fell asleep sniffing the addictive rubbery smell, apparently I am going to call this the LIIPA Littmann Inhalation Induction Procedure for Anesthesia, apparently it’s been tested to only work on a very small subset of autistic patients though initiates proper sleep, surgery under this level of anesthesia is not recommended… seriously… So Night nurse P. you know who you are, first Blanca stole it and used it and now I did, looks like this Stethoscope is going on a tour of all the necks in this house. Haha!
Anyways to those of you out there who might feel like doing this with your or someone elses Littmann, Do be careful keep the chestpiece somewhere where it is not likely to get rolled over, in my case since I sleep on my arm I put it on the inside part of my elbow, earpieces well you can decide between two options, those should be behind your head or preferably in your ears, in my case I just had them behind me above my head incase i were to somehow roll over onto my back, which very rarely happens and wakes me up immediately.
Why all that talk about doing this with your own or someone elses? Because in case some of you reading this don’t know a stethoscope is a very important tool in a doctors or nurses arsenal and while pretty durable are breakable, and if your a doctor or nurse you should already know how they are mainly damaged, a bit of a squeeze from the arm isn’t going to do much but drop it or create some insane amount of pressure on any component, and your going break your diaphragm or chest piece or wreck your earpieces or worse the whole ‘scope. In other words do whatever you can to make sure to keep it out of the way of damage, especially the high end cardiology models like this one, they usually run upwards of $150 some running into the high hundreds of dollars figures. And damage to them is usually expensive to fix or requires replacing the whole thing. So BE CAREFUL
And now the not so fine fine print: This post is not advice on how you should handle your or someone else’s stethoscope, any damage to it or you as a result of damaging it (i.e getting punched in the guts by your associate) ain’t my fault, this is all in good faith, so in other words, I disclaim all responsibility over any “advice” I am giving here, it is your responsibility to evaluate it and apply it if you feel it is sound (pun intended).
Oh and thanks Kelly for giving me the courage to post this thing to the web haha, without you I’d have wanted to keep this out of people’s ears…
OK OK I get it enough stethoscope humor for one post I know I am totally deafening the crowd. 
No more redness. see
And take a look at my trach site, all healed up from that weird redness. / ulceration. We used more creams to clear it out!
