May

Not the best month for me, it started with being home with Covid, then getting my car stolen and written off, with no insurance because I had left the keys in the car, and also with the death of Bovril my black cat. All these things are discussed in a previous entry so I will try to find some more positive things.

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I have not been blogging pretty much all year, so I am going to try and give an idea of what has been happening.
January
I was working on the alcoologie unit, and applied to leave the pool and work permanently with the addicts.
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Ok, I haven’t posted in a while and I will do some catch up posts soon, but today I want to share something that has completely dumbfounded me ( Read more... )

I haven’t posted anything for five months ( Read more... )

Or why I am like a ruptured slug unable to accomplish anything at the moment. This is mostly photos from a night of work.
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My life feels to be rather unbalanced at the moment, I am in debt on the sleep front, obviously the night duty is a cause, but also the effects of bright light and heat make it hard to catch up even when I am home. I am also in overdraft mode at the bank, not helped by being tired and making poor decisions which end up wasting money ( Read more... )

I am two nights in on the new placement and they have been ... intense. This establishment is a convalescent home which takes in patients who are recovering from operations or medical conditions which no longer require hospitalization but are not quite ready to go home, so mainly older people (64 to 97 years ) but not with psychiatric problems.
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I got into work yesterday and pretty much the first thing I did was check the computer for my work schedule ( Read more... )

I am not by nature a nocturnal person, left to my own devices I like to get up early and go to bed early so night duty feels like an imposition physically. It is made worse by the fact that our fixed rota gives us a single night off in between four nights and three nights. I am sure that everyone can see that one night off does not equal one day ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was walking around the stade with the dogs and my phone rang. It was work, and they said that as two people have returned from sick leave would I like to have some time off. Yay indeed! Suddenly my gloomy mood was gone, and I went home and swept the house, tidied the yard and went with Raph to the Leclerc at Figeac for a change. We ( Read more... )