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OK. I'm done with summer. Let's skip to autumn for a few extra weeks. I work third shift. When I come out of the building to go to my car, it is not supposed to feel like I need a shower by the time I get to the parking garage.
That ^ paragraph means I'm old, now, doesn't it? Young people don't notice the weather or at least don't bitch about it unless it cancels their plans. Oh well. If that paragraph up there doesn't mean I'm old, the one down v there (next) does.
I have to go to the pharmacy to get my meds refilled. Am waiting until they open and then I have to run some errands. First, I will take a relaxing shower. I don't necessarily need one, other than to wash all the craziness from work off of me.
Another things about the heat, I think it makes people stupider so they get hurt, injured or sick. Or they just have a total spaz. We had five or six crisis patients and overdoses. One came via ambulance. I think that one may be a 302. If you're so disruptive that an ambulance is called on you, there is some serious shit going down. Of course, being positive for four drugs of abuse and acetaminophen doesn't really help the situation. At lest we didn't have the woman who was bitten by a bat... and had it in a baggie in the room with her. That was last night. (Freaked out one nurse so badly with the dead-in-a-baggie-bat, she switched patients with another nurse.)
My night started off by walking past the ER window and seeing that every available seat was taken. Great. Packed waiting room. As I go through the doors, there is an obviously sick woman who was having the heaves while standing over the nurses' desk. Even better great. Log into the computer network in the lab, not only is the ER waiting area filled, but we don't have a single space open in the ER itself. (Not even the hallway spaces or the broom closets were empty!) The entire night was like that until around 0300. Then the world went quiet until an hour later and the shitstorm broke loose again. I hate trying to run three departments by myself during morning rounds. I had to leave most of AM labs for day shift over in chemistry. I couldn't deal with it. I'm just not able to do it. I've been running hard all night and for six months straight I have been doing at least two people's jobs. I don't really ask for much, but I would like to have a compliment once in a while that I do well. Really. That's all it would take to make me happy. I often wonder do the supervisors realize what I do? What about the lab manager? I know my fellow lab techs do. They feel it when I'm not there to cover everything. :S
OK. All right. Spaz Attack is over. Think about positive things... I just need to start planning my next vacation. I'm thinking Mothman Festival... and then maybe go up to the Columbus Zoo or something and on down to visit the family for a while. I have over 27 days. I got to use them or I'll lose them. Hm, the 15-16 of September. I will have to talk to CornerofMadness when she gets back from Wales to plan more.
Well, I need to wash this crappy day off of me so I can run my errands before the high noon sun fries/bakes my brain.
That ^ paragraph means I'm old, now, doesn't it? Young people don't notice the weather or at least don't bitch about it unless it cancels their plans. Oh well. If that paragraph up there doesn't mean I'm old, the one down v there (next) does.
I have to go to the pharmacy to get my meds refilled. Am waiting until they open and then I have to run some errands. First, I will take a relaxing shower. I don't necessarily need one, other than to wash all the craziness from work off of me.
Another things about the heat, I think it makes people stupider so they get hurt, injured or sick. Or they just have a total spaz. We had five or six crisis patients and overdoses. One came via ambulance. I think that one may be a 302. If you're so disruptive that an ambulance is called on you, there is some serious shit going down. Of course, being positive for four drugs of abuse and acetaminophen doesn't really help the situation. At lest we didn't have the woman who was bitten by a bat... and had it in a baggie in the room with her. That was last night. (Freaked out one nurse so badly with the dead-in-a-baggie-bat, she switched patients with another nurse.)
My night started off by walking past the ER window and seeing that every available seat was taken. Great. Packed waiting room. As I go through the doors, there is an obviously sick woman who was having the heaves while standing over the nurses' desk. Even better great. Log into the computer network in the lab, not only is the ER waiting area filled, but we don't have a single space open in the ER itself. (Not even the hallway spaces or the broom closets were empty!) The entire night was like that until around 0300. Then the world went quiet until an hour later and the shitstorm broke loose again. I hate trying to run three departments by myself during morning rounds. I had to leave most of AM labs for day shift over in chemistry. I couldn't deal with it. I'm just not able to do it. I've been running hard all night and for six months straight I have been doing at least two people's jobs. I don't really ask for much, but I would like to have a compliment once in a while that I do well. Really. That's all it would take to make me happy. I often wonder do the supervisors realize what I do? What about the lab manager? I know my fellow lab techs do. They feel it when I'm not there to cover everything. :S
OK. All right. Spaz Attack is over. Think about positive things... I just need to start planning my next vacation. I'm thinking Mothman Festival... and then maybe go up to the Columbus Zoo or something and on down to visit the family for a while. I have over 27 days. I got to use them or I'll lose them. Hm, the 15-16 of September. I will have to talk to CornerofMadness when she gets back from Wales to plan more.
Well, I need to wash this crappy day off of me so I can run my errands before the high noon sun fries/bakes my brain.