June 18, 2002
I got to play nurse tonight on my cousin. He lives up here, 300 miles away from home and is also attending Cal Poly. Apparently, he cut up his finger this last weekend on some kind of big tool and had to go to the ER to get stitches. So, I get a call asking if I could rebandage it and look to see if it is infected. We usually don't see him very often, even though we live in the same town. He came over and we went down to the store to get some gauze and stuff. His girlfriend probably could have done just as good of a job as I did, but I guess I have an eye for spotting infection, being a nurse and all. It didn't look to bad. He wouldn't even look at it. As I was taking the bandage off of his thumb, he was squeezing my hand tightly and getting all clammy. Guess that's why I am the nurse and he is going to be an engineer.