Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Too much work!

Well, I finally survived my stretch of days working. Barely. Sorry to all you people who regularly work 5 days a week, I suffer enough working 6 day stretches every other week. Plus I get 8 days off in between! I'm such a wimp. Please do take into consideration that I am stuck there for 12 hours though....

This stretch was so long and miserable, I kind of started to feel bad for the patients that would get stuck with me as their nurse. I just become more sarcastic. Some get the humor, some don't.... And this one patient in particular, that frequents the ER once, sometimes twice a day, yeah, he got stuck with me as his nurse in the last hour before I got to go home. So what did he get? The largest needle in his arm I could fit. Is that sadistic or what? But, my rationale is, that if he is really as sick as he is telling us, and he if he is so sick to come to the ER as often as he does, he needs that big IV. If he really hasn't peed in two days and has thrown up over 100 times since he went home 10 hours ago like he told me, he needs as much fluid as possible! Amazingly, he went home a hour later. There are so many hidden stories of the life of an ER nurse. Some funny, some not so funny.....

So anyways, I'm excited to get my 8 days off started! I would like to take a road trip of some sort. A friend of mine wants me to come visit him down near Detroit! Eeeks.....Sarah in the city! And of course I need to get out in the woods hiking and maybe do a little bit more mountain biking before the snow starts to fly! The bruises on my legs, from my last crash, are quite impressive. One is the darkest color of black I've seen. It's awesome!!

Well, off to bed now, but more to be updated in the blog as my time off passes by....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Road trips... ah those are fun... did a road trip last weekend to Dayton...

joy.