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Whew, it was hard to get up this morning. For Dan, too. But we did, and went to our respective J.O.B.s.
It had cooled off to a whopping 76 degrees this morning. And to think, just 6 months ago, we were in a frozen environment. Amazing, Lord, how this is.
A safe drive down, thank You, with two sentinel deer poised as though they were guarding the side of the road, heads up and ears perked. Each was standing frozen, like they were posing. Beautiful animals.
We had a good day at work. The other person in my job role was absent today, so it was just me and a my RNs, all of whom did a phenomenal job today. I got quite busy, it seemed, just after noon, and was very happy to see our dear Sarah had come in to help me out. Whew again. We split the assignment, she took off, and I was able to have lunch about 1:30. (that's a long time from 0515) Ahh, the worklife of a nurse.
I got really fatigued later in the afternoon, and wondered if Sarah would be willing to come in for me in the morning. That would make the third morning of getting up at 0430 for me, which is not so good for me. She checked out her childcare situation and agreed to come in. YESSS! I don't have to get up in the morning!
We finished out the shift.
A safe drive home, thank you God.
Dan was home when I got home. We had a snack and chatted a bit, and Dan is off tomorrow, too. Of course, he's gone to bed. I'm writing here, and had to take another motrin for that pesky wrist/thumb thing.
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Sunday 07.04.2010 The Fourth of July
A short night, which led into a short day. (eight hours for us, instead of the 12 1/2 hour shift, and at time and a half!)
We had a good day, but busy. It's so hot here--mid 90's--the pregnant ones are hot and dehydrated, coming in to labor and delivery for IV fluids. Some of them are really in labor, and we had at least 3 babies today, and a couple more to deliver after we left.
One of our former co-workers came in to visit with her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter who was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Emma is 4 months old now, and doing well. Her story of her first 4 months is at Keeping Up With Emma, at http://keepingupwithemmasidney.blogspot.com/. Now that she's finally home, she's merged into a family blog, A House With Two Girls, at http://4mazingos.blogspot.com/ . Kim, the grandma, was still working with us while I was going through treatment, was a great support person for me, and is still a "reader". Thanks, Kim, it was nice to hug you today.
When I left the hospital at 3:30-ish, it was so hot that I got nauseated from the heat just walking over to my car. Ugh. I don't do well when it's that hot.
The car cooled off, though, and the house is mostly cool. I was pretty tired this afternoon; after Dan got home, he went into shower, and I napped on the couch. When I woke about 45 minutes later, the house was quiet. He was sleeping on the bed.
I was hungry, and knew he needed to eat, too, so I put something together. When it was ready, I was going to wake him, but he was sleeping pretty good so I didn't. He finally woke about 7:30 and was happy there was something for him to eat.
We've watched the fireworks on television of the New York City/Hudson River. Beats sweating and slapping mosquitoes.
My wrist has been sore again today, and I've had a third dose of the motrin. It does takes some of the swelling/inflammation away, but it's still pretty sore.
Dan and I both work tomorrow.
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
We had a good day, but busy. It's so hot here--mid 90's--the pregnant ones are hot and dehydrated, coming in to labor and delivery for IV fluids. Some of them are really in labor, and we had at least 3 babies today, and a couple more to deliver after we left.
One of our former co-workers came in to visit with her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter who was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Emma is 4 months old now, and doing well. Her story of her first 4 months is at Keeping Up With Emma, at http://keepingupwithemmasidney.blogspot.com/. Now that she's finally home, she's merged into a family blog, A House With Two Girls, at http://4mazingos.blogspot.com/ . Kim, the grandma, was still working with us while I was going through treatment, was a great support person for me, and is still a "reader". Thanks, Kim, it was nice to hug you today.
When I left the hospital at 3:30-ish, it was so hot that I got nauseated from the heat just walking over to my car. Ugh. I don't do well when it's that hot.
The car cooled off, though, and the house is mostly cool. I was pretty tired this afternoon; after Dan got home, he went into shower, and I napped on the couch. When I woke about 45 minutes later, the house was quiet. He was sleeping on the bed.
I was hungry, and knew he needed to eat, too, so I put something together. When it was ready, I was going to wake him, but he was sleeping pretty good so I didn't. He finally woke about 7:30 and was happy there was something for him to eat.
We've watched the fireworks on television of the New York City/Hudson River. Beats sweating and slapping mosquitoes.
My wrist has been sore again today, and I've had a third dose of the motrin. It does takes some of the swelling/inflammation away, but it's still pretty sore.
Dan and I both work tomorrow.
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Saturday 07.03.2010
How lovely--I got to sleep in this morning. I finally got out of bed sometime after 9:30.
Breakfast, lolled around. Shower. I went to the pharmacy to pick up the rest of the prescription that was a partial fill, then started the potato salad.
It turned out pretty good. I got my stuff together and went over to daughter Kim and Bob's in Springport for a birthday party for 3 year old great grandchild Skyler.
We had a nice late afternoon, though with all the children there it's quite busy (hectic). Dan came over after he was done golfing, and after we helped clean up, we left.
I wrote here, Dan has showered and gone to bed, and I'm on my way.
I've taken the motrin/tylenol twice today, which is helping the swelling in my wrist, and takes the pain away until I move or use my hand/wrist. Hope it gets better soon.
Tomorrow is a workday for both of us. Happy Freedom Day--Thanks to all who have served, past and present, to keep us that way.
And thank you for reading. Hugs.
Breakfast, lolled around. Shower. I went to the pharmacy to pick up the rest of the prescription that was a partial fill, then started the potato salad.
It turned out pretty good. I got my stuff together and went over to daughter Kim and Bob's in Springport for a birthday party for 3 year old great grandchild Skyler.
We had a nice late afternoon, though with all the children there it's quite busy (hectic). Dan came over after he was done golfing, and after we helped clean up, we left.
I wrote here, Dan has showered and gone to bed, and I'm on my way.
I've taken the motrin/tylenol twice today, which is helping the swelling in my wrist, and takes the pain away until I move or use my hand/wrist. Hope it gets better soon.
Tomorrow is a workday for both of us. Happy Freedom Day--Thanks to all who have served, past and present, to keep us that way.
And thank you for reading. Hugs.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Friday 07.02.2010
I slept for what seemed like forever, which was only an hour and a half, all the way to midnight. The remaining four and a half hours was typical interrupted sleep. It was finally time to get up for work when I was dozing again.
A safe drive down, thank you God.
We had a good day, with a great group of co-workers. A few smaller challenges/complications to work on throughout the day kept us outside of "routine". I was glad to see the night shift show up.
I was still answering call lights and giving medicine until time to clock out and leave. I was happy to do so.
A safe drive home, thanks again, and Dan and I had a quiet evening. He has to work tomorrow; I don't.
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
A safe drive down, thank you God.
We had a good day, with a great group of co-workers. A few smaller challenges/complications to work on throughout the day kept us outside of "routine". I was glad to see the night shift show up.
I was still answering call lights and giving medicine until time to clock out and leave. I was happy to do so.
A safe drive home, thanks again, and Dan and I had a quiet evening. He has to work tomorrow; I don't.
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Thursday 07.01.2010
I didn't sleep much, and before long it was time to get up. I got ready and left for work.
A safe drive down, thank you God.
When I got there, the night staff looked at me. "Uh oh. Sorry. Didn't know you didn't know that you didn't need to come in this morning." Hm. The day staff were getting their assignments and getting report started. They said they would be ok without me. Oh. Ok. I went next door, to the overflow unit. They were done with report. I asked if they were ok, if they needed me. Nope. Sorry you came in. Hm.
We have a policy that if you come to work and you're not needed, you can stay 4 hours and get paid. Or if you've clocked in, you can clock out and get paid just for that time. I don't have to stay and get 4 hours of pay. I waited until the day shift was done with their report before I clocked out, which was about 0715. I had business I needed to do during business hours while in Jackson, and I dawdled before leaving the building, which didn't do any good, because the credit union didn't open until 9, and there wasn't anyone at the oil change place at 8:05. So much for that. I went home.
Dan was still sleeping at 0900, though he had been awake and had turned on the radio. I put things away, and with the little bit of noise, he woke. I explained what had happened as I laid on the bed, too. He ended up remembering that he needed to get a fasting lab draw done and went over to that office. I dozed off for a while.
When I woke, he still wasn't home. Or so I thought. He was down in the garage taking care of his golf stuff from his trip.
By this time, it was 11 or so. Since he hadn't eaten, and my breakfast was at 0515, we decided to go out for brunch. We ended up at the Flap Jack Shack, he had breakfast and I had lunch.
From there we went next door to Lowe's and bought a mixed planter of flowers for the balcony.
Back at home we took care of some housekeeping stuff. Dan ended up laying down again. I had a meeting in Jackson at 4:30, but still needed to do the banking and other errands, so I left about 3.
First stop, one credit union, then across town to another. Back to the oil change, then to the meeting. There, got those errands done.
The meeting was informative, kind of a pep talk about how good our unit is doing fiscally. When I got home, Dan had dinner ready to finish cooking. Woo Hoo! He did pretty good, too. I cleaned the kitchen, though, afterwards.
I took the first Femara tablet this afternoon, and I will say that the hot flashes have been less frequent, definitely. I hope that's a good thing to stay. Of course, it's only the first dose. Time will tell.
I've been sitting here writing, and watched a young hummingbird at the feeder. Fluffy, unsure of getting that long beak into the feeder hole. Kind of funny. It stayed about 15 minutes. Neat.
And I'm trying to stay awake, so I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow is a scheduled work day for me, and Dan, too. ( I had said yes when they were looking for help for today. The day supervisor who called me yesterday said that there had been more discharges than anticipated, and thanked me for coming in anyway. )
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
A safe drive down, thank you God.
When I got there, the night staff looked at me. "Uh oh. Sorry. Didn't know you didn't know that you didn't need to come in this morning." Hm. The day staff were getting their assignments and getting report started. They said they would be ok without me. Oh. Ok. I went next door, to the overflow unit. They were done with report. I asked if they were ok, if they needed me. Nope. Sorry you came in. Hm.
We have a policy that if you come to work and you're not needed, you can stay 4 hours and get paid. Or if you've clocked in, you can clock out and get paid just for that time. I don't have to stay and get 4 hours of pay. I waited until the day shift was done with their report before I clocked out, which was about 0715. I had business I needed to do during business hours while in Jackson, and I dawdled before leaving the building, which didn't do any good, because the credit union didn't open until 9, and there wasn't anyone at the oil change place at 8:05. So much for that. I went home.
Dan was still sleeping at 0900, though he had been awake and had turned on the radio. I put things away, and with the little bit of noise, he woke. I explained what had happened as I laid on the bed, too. He ended up remembering that he needed to get a fasting lab draw done and went over to that office. I dozed off for a while.
When I woke, he still wasn't home. Or so I thought. He was down in the garage taking care of his golf stuff from his trip.
By this time, it was 11 or so. Since he hadn't eaten, and my breakfast was at 0515, we decided to go out for brunch. We ended up at the Flap Jack Shack, he had breakfast and I had lunch.
From there we went next door to Lowe's and bought a mixed planter of flowers for the balcony.
Back at home we took care of some housekeeping stuff. Dan ended up laying down again. I had a meeting in Jackson at 4:30, but still needed to do the banking and other errands, so I left about 3.
First stop, one credit union, then across town to another. Back to the oil change, then to the meeting. There, got those errands done.
The meeting was informative, kind of a pep talk about how good our unit is doing fiscally. When I got home, Dan had dinner ready to finish cooking. Woo Hoo! He did pretty good, too. I cleaned the kitchen, though, afterwards.
I took the first Femara tablet this afternoon, and I will say that the hot flashes have been less frequent, definitely. I hope that's a good thing to stay. Of course, it's only the first dose. Time will tell.
I've been sitting here writing, and watched a young hummingbird at the feeder. Fluffy, unsure of getting that long beak into the feeder hole. Kind of funny. It stayed about 15 minutes. Neat.
And I'm trying to stay awake, so I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow is a scheduled work day for me, and Dan, too. ( I had said yes when they were looking for help for today. The day supervisor who called me yesterday said that there had been more discharges than anticipated, and thanked me for coming in anyway. )
Thank you for reading. Hugs.
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