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Night Shift Ghosts
by Joanna
IM Working as a nurse in a big hospital. During that time I was on a night shift where hours would seemed eternity to wait for the break of dawn. To keep ourselves from falling asleep, me and my nurse friends would talk about a lot of things, especially ghost stories, to perk us up while doing our charting. Then events took place during my shift: someone died in the emergency room; a group of people were admitted due to a vehicular accident; another patient is in emergency code... all these are pretty normal to me since I deal with these kind of things everyday.

Then en I remembered that I have to go to the pharmacy downstairs to get some medicine for my patient, which will be due to be given a little later. So I hurried to the nearby elevator to get to my destination in the ground floor (I'm from the fourth floor). I was with a man inside the elevator then, and I'm happy because at least I have somebody with me, although I did not know him. As we were going down, we suddenly stopped on the second floor and a little boy about five years old wants to get inside, but immediately I pressed the close button leaving the boy behind.

The stranger asked me, why I did not let the little boy ride with us? I told him that he looks like the same child who died the other day; we tried to resuscitate him, but eventually he just died. And second floor was the pediatric ward where the boy had died. Then the stranger ask me again, how can you be so sure? Is it because he's wearing this same tag in my wrist? (raising his arm to show me)...

I was speechless, and I thought I was going to faint. That's when I noticed that the stranger was wearing a hospital gown. He looks oddly familiar because he was the patient that was on emergency code a while ago. He did not make it.. But I did make it to the ground floor, got my medicine as fast as I can, then run like hell and took the stairs back to my station in the fourth floor. Never again will I ride elevators during night shifts.

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When her husband shot her five years ago, Connie Culp was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids, but on Tuesday she revealed her new face.

Culp's was the world's first near-total facial transplant and the fourth known facial transplant to have been successfully performed to date.

The 46-year-old mother of two underwent a procedure last December that lasted 22 hours at the Cleveland Clinic in the state of Ohio.

Surgeons transplanted about 80 percent of Culp's face using facial tissue from a dead woman that was placed like a mask atop her own. Almost her entire face was replaced, except for the forehead, upper eyelids, lower lip and chin.

The team of 11 surgeons who performed the operation said Culp, who was missing bone support and had been unable to eat or breathe without a tube in her windpipe, could now perform functions normally. But her face was bloated, drooping and her speech was at times difficult to decipher.

"We think this ... procedure has changed her life dramatically," Maria Siemionow, the clinic's director of plastic surgery research, told a news conference.

Culp's identity and the incident that had disfigured were kept under wraps until today.

"Well, I guess I'm the one you came to see today," Culp said after being helped up to the podium.

But, she added, "I think it's more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person's face."

When Risal Djohan, a plastic surgeon at the clinic, first looked at Culp's injuries two months after she was shot, "he told me he didn't think, he wasn't sure, if he could fix me, but he'd try," the patient recalled.

"Here I am, five years later. He did what he said -- I got me my nose," she said with a laugh.

Facial transplants are controversial because they carry heavy risks and are performed to improve a patient's quality of life rather than as a life-saving operation.

There are also concerns that the operation could eventually be used for purely cosmetic purposes or as a means of altering someone's identity.

Although the circumstances that led to Culp's injury were not revealed at the news conference, local media reported that her husband, Thomas, had shot her in 2004 at point-blank range before turning the gun on himself. The apparent murder-suicide attempt failed and he was sentenced to seven years in prison.

A thoroughly disfigured Culp went through 30 operations in an attempt to salvage her face before finally undergoing the transplant, which was also the first of its kind known to have included bones, along with muscle, skin, blood vessels and nerves.

Siemionow said the transplant "was the most complex functional restoration in the world today."

"We have transplanted for the first time in the world the largest scheme of the face, which was combined with the bones, with the entire nose and functional units, including lower eyelids, upper lip and including also her palate," she said.

Doctors paid special attention to maintaining arteries, veins, and nerves, as well as soft tissue and bony structures, as they recovered the donor's facial tissue.

The surgeons then connected facial graft vessels to the patient's blood vessels in order to restore blood circulation in the reconstructed face before connecting arteries, veins and nerves.

Culp, whose sight had made adults cringe and children run away, urged others not to judge people by their looks.

"When somebody has a disfigurement and don't look as pretty as you do, don't judge them, because you never know what happened to them," she said.

"Don't judge people who don't look the same as you do. Because you never know. One day it might be all taken away."

Doctors in France performed the first partial face transplant in 2005 on a 38-year-old woman, Isabelle Dinoire, who was disfigured in a dog attack and had her mouth and nose replaced.

In a world first, French surgeons replaced in a single operation in April the face and both hands of a man horribly disfigured by an accident. The operation lasted 30 hours and required a medical team of more than 40.
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ON 29TH sep 2008 microsoft started bus service for employees and Employees can started work from the bus itself and their office hours counts from the time they start the work in the bus.
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