Still hanging in..
I am on my four shift in a row, this is a short one, only 8 hours, but then I have to teach CPR in the am when I get off for 6 hours….so really not a short one. Then I teach ACLS on Weds for 12 hours, and then work again Thursday night, but then…….(drum roll) I am off for three days. For some reason I really drew a short straw with this schedule. Our boss wasn’t paying attention and schedule me for 7 hectic shifts in a row, 74 hours straight….damn! When she saw what she had done, and no way to correct it due to her also allowing vacations for some, she said, “what idiot made this schedule?” To which I answered….guess :) so she apologized and said at least it was with me cause she can always count on me…awwww Fuck!
Anyway it would not be so bad if we weren’t so damn busy. ER smashing, waiting room full, hospital full, OR going full tilt….don’t know where I am going to put more sick people. And the worst? it is that half or more of the people that come to the ER …shouldn’t! It is mickey mouse things that are not emergencies…..please, you have a cold and that warrants an ER visit? Ties up a nurse, and a the doctor to listen to you sniffle and whine while some really sick person is waiting in the waiting room for your bed. Stay home, take some tylenol and fluids and rest….WTF
We even had some idiot take an ambulance in because he hurt his finger…yup, you heard me…his finger….now if he would have cut his arm off I would have cared, but he cut his finger opening a can of spam……..HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THAT????
And to top it all off, I feel like shit. I am probably sicker than half the people I have had to treat tonight. I have a raging sore throat, headache, fever and body aches…yup, I feel like hell…
On a lighter note! I am doing okay with my eating choices. I am really watching the salt, and have so far this weekend passed chocolate cake, M & Ms, a chocolate, banana whipped cream pie, and Filipino food….Yah for me. I so love Filipino food, but OMG it is fattening. MY mouth was watering so bad, but I popped a stick of sugar free gum and went back to working my butt off. And the best part was when I did my weigh today, I am down 5 pounds! good for me. Now I am aware that most of that is water as my puffy hands and feet are looking really good, but hell it is still 5 pounds that I don’t have to pack around. So hell yah, I will take it.
I am doing Anngirl’s trick. Salad dressing on the side, soups and lots of salad, and of course my precious soybeans….which is an addiction, but a good addiction 
I hardly saw DH this weekend at all, just in passing as I was leaving for work. I felt bad as I was pretty miserable to him last weekend when he was home. Just feeling bitchy and out of sorts, and of course took it out on him. I guess it was just a warning that I was coming down with some junk. Oh well I am off this weekend and will make it up to him.
Well again with the pager, off I go as I am needed……ciao!
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by islandgrl
Filed under: General
CONGRATS ON THE 5 POUNDS!!!! Don’t let em work you too hard!!!
DAng lady - 5 pounds!
You are my superhero honey!
Incredible!
You work your ass off - you avoid temptation, you heal the sick, nurture the ailing and you look awesome while doing it.
Now, take some damn time off before you get a wrinkle in your cape ok?!!!!
Love ya!
xoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxo (go to infiinty with this)
First off- congrats on losing the 5 pounds!
Second- who do we need to yell at about the crappy schedule? I mean, really, that’s friggin ridiculous.
And I’m so with you- when did the ER turn into the place to go for sniffles an blisters? It’s called an EMERGENCY room. Anyone who thinks that a finger cut is an emergency (from a can of spam no less) should have to see what a REAL emergency is. Maybe then they’ll think twice about tying up emergency services for such a petty papercut.
But really- congrats on the 5 pounds!
5 pounds! That is great! I can’t believe your work schedule. How you don’t fall over sideways is beyond me. SPLAT! I would be on the floor. You are amazing. Please take care of you too! We don’t want you to end up in your ER. I did chuckle about the slicing the finger on a can of SPAM. I know what a hot commodity SPAM is over there. It cracks me up.
Hugs to you!