Thursday, July 3, 2008

What did you say?! A BOMB?!?

So, yesterday was an interesting day at work for me (University Hospital). My manager is out of town for the week, so she put me in charge of the front desk while she is gone (I'm her Assistant). I get to take care of all of the problems that arise, so, of course something major is bound to happen when she leaves me in charge! Anyway, so I am just answering phone call after phone call, and I went to put one of the calls on hold, and a frantic lady says, "No, I can't hold, I need to speak to someone about the bomb threat. We are having a meeting right now!" WHAT?!? I ran to get my Charge Nurse to send her to the meeting to get the info. She came back and informed all of us that a man with a "Middle Eastern accent" had called the hospital and said that he had planted three bombs, and that we should all evacuate. He later called back and said, "I am watching you...why aren't you evacuating yet?" We had the fire marshall, the bomb squad, and the police doing sweeps through the entire hospital. They told us to just sit tight until we had more information. What more information do you need??? It's a BOMB! While we sat and waited for word, we started calling all of our patients who were scheduled to be seen that afternoon and evening. We couldn't tell them what was going on, just that we needed to reschedule their appointment because "a situation had occured." After we had called all of the patients we were told that the staff needed to stick around in case we needed to help evacuate all the patients from the hospital. That's when we started getting really nervous, and that is when I texted Ken to tell him that I love him... Finally, after a few hours of waiting, we got word that it was all clear. What a relief! Of course, we didn't want to call all of our patients back and tell them to come in after all, so I did get to go home a little early last night. What a day!
Can I just tell you how excited I am for my week off next week? Yay! California, here we come!!

3 comments:

LoriAlbrecht said...

Wow that's crazy!

Chelsie said...

Yikes! I would be scared to death! Glad everything worked out okay! Have fun in California!

Nicole said...

UMMMM... I need a Cali post!