somebody hold on to it
I was originally going to make a random post with random things in it. Here's the ultrashort version of that:
And the reason why my brain is short circuiting to bullet points? I just found out that one of my patients committed suicide yesterday. We got him into a good hospital last week, he just got out two days ago. A week is unheard of now, it was really that bad. We scrambled that day, because he needed new blood work and a new script for the Clozaril they put him on but never followed through with, and I needed to get registered with the national registry while getting someone else into the hospital. I saw him yesterday, and he was doing well. At least, he said he was and looked like it. No visible distress, forward thinking plans, no suicidal thoughts, no depression, no paranoia. And a few hours later, he drove up to one of the bridges in town, climbed over the edge and jumped. Either he planned it too well or it was impulsive, there's no way for any of us to tell. This isn't the first time I've been told about something like this, but the other ones had chronic issues and it wasn't a surprise. This was.
I'll miss him. :(
- I'm still losing weight thanks to nursing, nearly 30 pounds less than my pre-pregnancy weight. My wedding and engagement rings roll around on my finger a lot, and it's apparently not because my hands get cold easily.
- Maddy still has difficulty staying in bed, getting up at least once or twice.
- Zach rolls around in his crib but still can't quite manage turning over back to front because he can't figure out what to do with that one arm yet. (Front to back? No problem.)
- Editing my novel is going MUCH easier this time around, because I have a focus to slice through the text with. It's not really slicing though but fleshing out things better, so I'm actually up about 5k on the word count and I'm on chapter 11 now.
- I'm sure the gaps in my schedule next week will get filled with intakes. It seems to be going that way.
And the reason why my brain is short circuiting to bullet points? I just found out that one of my patients committed suicide yesterday. We got him into a good hospital last week, he just got out two days ago. A week is unheard of now, it was really that bad. We scrambled that day, because he needed new blood work and a new script for the Clozaril they put him on but never followed through with, and I needed to get registered with the national registry while getting someone else into the hospital. I saw him yesterday, and he was doing well. At least, he said he was and looked like it. No visible distress, forward thinking plans, no suicidal thoughts, no depression, no paranoia. And a few hours later, he drove up to one of the bridges in town, climbed over the edge and jumped. Either he planned it too well or it was impulsive, there's no way for any of us to tell. This isn't the first time I've been told about something like this, but the other ones had chronic issues and it wasn't a surprise. This was.
I'll miss him. :(