My birthday is December the 18th. I am an RN at a local level-1 trauma center and teaching hospital -I work in the ER as a care coordinator (first level of case management at our facility). 1/2 hour into my shift on Dec. 17, I was walking to my first post of the night to begin my shift duties and the next thing I know is I'm being asked questions by half a dozen people and I'm noticing that one of the lights in the ceiling has burned out. Turns out I had a (rather bad) bleed in my head -spontaneous. Had this happened an hour earlier, I'd have been on the news (something about a diesel pick-up truck lays waste to vehicles in front of it -empty home-brewing bottles and a sack of malted barley found on scene, etc. Film at 11 (well, you know the story) -in all likelihood I'd have broken my new 6 1/2 gallon glass carboy as well
But in any case, next time I'm fully awake (AND a bit confused -and not a little scared) I'm post-op, in an ICU and on a ventilator (and very unhappy. Didn't mind working with vents when I was a critical-care nurse, but NEVER wanted to be on the receiving end of one). after a couple and a half weeks, I'm home and suffer a seizure the very next morning (likely related to irritation of the brain from residual blood products -not entirely unexpected, but not very welcome either) -after I get out of the hospital AGAIN, I've spent a little over 3 weeks (overall) there, and am not allowed (by state law as well) to drive, AND I'm far too weak to brew! Was planning on a nice Trippel. Guess it will give me something to look forward to, but the brew on tap is half empty and I'm getting a little nervous (grin). To make matters worse, I was going to combine my two partial kegs of American style Generic Brown Ale to help fuel a 'welcome home' party (since I missed Christmas dinner with family -but at least my room had an EXCELLENT view of the fireworks on New Years- AND I wasn't drugged up, so I could really enjoy them.
Anyway, I had a partial keg of an old Porter that I'd made (about a year ago) that I didn't really enjoy, so had relegated it to 'cooking status' (use it when I want to use a beer in a recipe) -I accidentally hooked it up and pushed ALL of it into my brown ale keg (not sure how I did this since I have labels on the lids of all the kegs) -the result is 'OK' but i WOULDN'T do it again. I promptly consumed the rest of the other keg of uncontaminated brown.
Gotta convince SWMBO to drive me to the home-brew store and get some grain -but I also have to build up enough strength and stamina to brew.
Ok, I know this was about as interesting as a pile of spent grain, but I did need to vent a bit.
Thanks folks!
But in any case, next time I'm fully awake (AND a bit confused -and not a little scared) I'm post-op, in an ICU and on a ventilator (and very unhappy. Didn't mind working with vents when I was a critical-care nurse, but NEVER wanted to be on the receiving end of one). after a couple and a half weeks, I'm home and suffer a seizure the very next morning (likely related to irritation of the brain from residual blood products -not entirely unexpected, but not very welcome either) -after I get out of the hospital AGAIN, I've spent a little over 3 weeks (overall) there, and am not allowed (by state law as well) to drive, AND I'm far too weak to brew! Was planning on a nice Trippel. Guess it will give me something to look forward to, but the brew on tap is half empty and I'm getting a little nervous (grin). To make matters worse, I was going to combine my two partial kegs of American style Generic Brown Ale to help fuel a 'welcome home' party (since I missed Christmas dinner with family -but at least my room had an EXCELLENT view of the fireworks on New Years- AND I wasn't drugged up, so I could really enjoy them.
Anyway, I had a partial keg of an old Porter that I'd made (about a year ago) that I didn't really enjoy, so had relegated it to 'cooking status' (use it when I want to use a beer in a recipe) -I accidentally hooked it up and pushed ALL of it into my brown ale keg (not sure how I did this since I have labels on the lids of all the kegs) -the result is 'OK' but i WOULDN'T do it again. I promptly consumed the rest of the other keg of uncontaminated brown.
Gotta convince SWMBO to drive me to the home-brew store and get some grain -but I also have to build up enough strength and stamina to brew.
Ok, I know this was about as interesting as a pile of spent grain, but I did need to vent a bit.
Thanks folks!