Nurse Brian

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Brian at the Infusion Room

(Hacked-up Lyrics for Dire Straits' 'Sultans of Swing' by Johnny King Honey Bee)

You cast a glimmer in the dark
Cause you're glowing in the dark but meantime
Right of the elevator and you're going the wrong way
Got to turn left and not turn right
Go to up to six north and they might make you stay

You step in the Infusion Room and see so many faces
Coming in out of the rain to get chemo but not many frown
Brian ain't got much competition from other places
Cept those nursies from six north with all their chemo
Nursies on six north nursies on six north, come see us, come on up

And Brian's pumps are slow but they never bring you doom
They're getting old but they're still doing alright
They can still pump chemo and meds just like anything
Pharmacy's been mixing them up all night
Just for Brian at the Infusion Room

Our Johnny King Honey Bee stays away from six north
He's had their chemo and now he's doing alright
Just trying to save his bones from doom
The King don't want to stay overnight
When he sees Brian at the Infusion Room

And the nurses from six north they're trying to steal Brian's patients
'Come stay with us and we'll give you lots of free hospital food'
'Brian don't let you stay in his room overnight'
'But we sure will let you do that Dude'
But Brian he too gives Chemo

At the close of the day Brian he locks up his room
And says 'At last I get to go, I'm closing up too late'
'Thank you, goodnight now it's time to wash up and groom'
and he makes it fast with one more thing
'I am Brian... doo...dooo...doo...dooo.. I am Brian at the Infusion Room'.

Nurse Brian Bee runs the Outpatient Infusion Room at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. He provides a range of treatments for outpatients from blood infusions to administring chemotherapy. Me, Johnny King Honey Bee, sees Brian without fail every month for an infusion of Pamidronate.

Pamidronate is used in the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM). Brian's Infusion Room has five really comfy recliners, and I always have a very good nap during the 90 minutes it used to take to receive the infusion. But starting in late June 2002 the Pamidronate infusion was replaced with infusions of Zometa. It does the same thing as Pamidronate does, but can be infused in 15-20 minutes versus 90 minutes with Pamidronate. Click HERE for technical stuff on Zometa if you are curious about it.

Chemotherapy, various cancer remission maintenance treatments and infusions such as Pamidronate and Zometa, other treatments for various cancers and blood diseases and disorders - Nurse Brian Bee does all this and probably much more. He is always very busy in the Infusion Room, administering all sorts of weird treatments. He is a very busy bee and watching him makes me sleepy, so I always nod off to a fluffy white cloud to dream and scheme.

Queenie Bee Beate and I really like Brian and his expert, caring service. We have asked him all sorts of weird bee questions and even for help and assistance, and he always comes through. I am putting one of my favorite songs on this page. I like the song 'Sultans of Swing' but not terribly moved by the lyrics. So I re-wrote the lyrics and stuck them up there. I spoofed the nursies at Ward Six North with my lyrics, but I am just kidding them - they are all wonderful nurses. I have tons more stuff to put in Our New Beehive, and I imagine there will sooner or later be a page about them Six South Nursies.

Hmmmm... That looks sloppy enough!!! Whatever do you expect from a bee - especially a King Honey Bee - neat, beautiful pages??? BZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZ

I do NOT always go to sleep in Brian's recliner in the Infusion Room. He usually has TV on, WHICH BORES ME TO TEARS, so I watch him. Closely. Waiting for him to do something he shouldn't do. He handles some pretty heavy stuff and tends to Vets who are very sick with stuff that will eventually kill them. Best not finish us off before our alloted time by catching an infection (a lot of us have very depressed immune systems and are extremely vulnerable to the slightest of infections).

But Brian NEVER goofs up when it comes to infection control. NEVER. No matter how full the Infusion Room is. No matter how many calls he gets on the phone. BRIAN IS GOOD!!! SUPER GOOD!!!

PS: Us patients (the Vets) sure are HAPPY there are no cooties or clammy ants in Brian Bee's recliners. The clammy ants aren't happy, though. (Didn't see either whilst staying in Six North, either.) (None in Dr. Howard's office, either.) And NO!!! There are none in our cozy little beehive - we caught them all when we moved in and put them all on the Internet - to bug YOU!

BEEPOWER!!! BZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Clammy ants??? Click HERE if you DARE..... bzzzzz bzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz