Friday Morning - Catch Up

Wow!  Have I really not done a journal entry in like a week?  I do have some catching up to do on my comments and journal reading.  I have no idea what I have been doing!  Oh yeah, I worked Saturday (St Paddy's), Monday, and Tuesday.  Did I miss Sunday and Wednesday?  Thursday we went and got Hannah's hair done (more on that later).  Now I'm just doing some housework and about to head off to bed, but first, I thought I'd pop in and say "hey".

Saturday:  St Patrick's Day and my prediction came true.  Too many drunks to count.  I mean seriously, can anyone tell me what the big freakin deal is about St Patrick's Day that you've got to go out and drink yourself stupid?  Let me give you some numbers so you can tell just how fun my night was.  In a 24 hours period we saw 90 patients in the ER.  From 7pm-5am we saw 73 patients.  Now do your math.  We saw 81% of the total ER visits in 10 hours!!!  Oh, and did I mention that I was in charge?  I tried to go on diversion for about an hour so we would quit getting ambulances and be able to at least breath (forget about peeing), but administration said no.  You know, don't ya just wanna say "then why don't you crawl your ass out of bed and get in here and help"? Boy did I earn my extra 75cents an hour that night I tell ya.  Yeah, I don't know where I'm going to spend my $9 first.  Any suggestions?

Sunday:  Hung out and recouperated.  I couldn't sleep cause I was so wound up, plus I had hurt my back (standard nursing injury) because I was so busy that I didn't get my patient's full history and had no idea she couldn't stand on her own.  So when I stood her to get to the bedside commode I discovered this nifty little bit of information.  Did I mention she was a full 100lbs heavier than me?  Oh geez!  I think I cooked dinner.  Oh I did!  It was good too.  It was Coconut Parmesean Crusted Chicken Breast, Brown Rice (for the boy), Noodles (for the rest of us), and Green Beans.  Yum!

 Monday:  Work was much better.  I was in triage and then helped out in the back when I could.  I actually was able to sit down and eat my lunch.  From start to finish without having to get up.  20minutes of sitting down and eating.  Somebody call Guinness, lol.

Tuesday: At work and in charge, again.  Another fun $9 extra for the shift.  We were busy, but it was more manageable.  I know I breathed, I think I peed, but I didn't eat a darn thing except a bite sized snickers.  Hmmmm...do you think that was nutritional?  Doesn't matter, it gave me some quick energy!  And it would turn out I needed that energy because I had to have a patient arrested.  And of course my name is on the complaint and I will have to be the one to testify.  I will too, because you just can't come into the ER, walk into the Nursing/Doctor station (considered a secure area), yell, threaten, cuss at us, tear up the room, and not expect some sort of reprecussions.  At least not in my ER!  You know, I could have gotten over the fact that this person did the yelling and all, but the straw was when I went into the room about 1-2 minutes later and it was totally torn up with betadine and blood all over the walls.  That was when I said "You know, now I've had enough of you.  Now you are going to jail."  I called the police and they agreed.  One charge of disorderally conduct coming up (it would have been destruction of property too but I convinced the police that we would most probably be able to clean up the room and there was no permanent damage to any equipment).  This patient really got off easy, because you and I both know that if she hadacted like this on an airplane she'd be sitting in a federal jail, so why can't we have the same sort of rules in the ER?

Wednesday:  Another day of not being able to sleep well.  It's kinda of hard to unwind when you've been wound up for over 12 hours.  Then I had to get Caleb from school as it was early release day.  But I did end of being semi productive.  I cooked again.  This time was Stroganoff with Meatballs, Steamed Broccoli and Carrots, and fresh Strawberries.  Double Yum!

Thursday:  As mentioned above, we got Hannah's hair done today.  Hannah wanted blue in her hair.  Yes...I did say blue. 

Well, okay.  I know we said "blue", but they didn't really have just a blue as for some reason they don't get a lot of requests for that color.  I wonder why, lol.  At any rate, it is a "blue/black".  It has a hue of blue in it which will show up more once it fades.  I had Hannah pull up her hair in a clip so you could see the color.  It is dark underneath and islayered in the back so you can see.  She is absolutely thrilled, and I don't think her Dad will totally freak out about this as much as he would if she was doing something more dramatic.  KWIM?  At any rate, it was fun, and I agree with the experimenting part, as long as it isn't sex or drugs who cares, right?  But now that Hannah has her hair done, she is feeling guilty about it.  She's like "I feel like I deliberately disobeyed my Dad."  Well, geez, you could've thought of that before we spent $120!  Too late now.  And it's permanent and would cost $100 to strip the color and bleach it back blonde and that would totally ruin her hair.  So get over it I say.  I did tell Hannah that I did not take her to get her hair done strictly because her Dad didn't want her to.  I did do it because I don't see anything wrong with it.  And Maren (hairdresser) is so conservative she kept it pretty low key.  The color is on the underneath hair, not right out in your face.  It looks nice and trendy, not trashy, and I told Hannah that.  But she went to bed feeling bad.  So, I told her to fess up to her Dad and tell him.  We'll see what happens.

Friday:  I guess I had better get off my behind today because on Saturday is Caleb's 7th birthday?  Oh my...where did my baby go?  And we are having a Chuck E Cheese party.  Yeah me, not!  Ha ha!  But seriously, geez!  I've got to order a cake!!!  I better take the boy to Walmart or Basha's tomorrow and get one ordered.  We are having a "Chuck E Cheese" cake there, but...you know those things are yuck!  So far I've got 7 boys and 1 girl coming from Caleb's class that I know of.  Then Deonte (Stephanie's boyfriend's son) is coming.  And Preston, Caleb's friend from kindergarten, will be there at the same time having his birthday party.  His mom, Kathy, andI arranged it that way.  I think it will be fun, heavy on the "i think" part, lol.  You know, I have no idea if they still serve wine or beer at Chuck's, but I will definitely have to check that one out.  That would so help me handle it.  I am no good at social events when I'm supposed to be in charge.  Totally stresses me out (yes I can handle a code blue just fine, but not a million screaming kiddos).  Oh I know that Chuck is hosting the party, but you know I will have to keep track of these kids.  I hear a valium or ativan calling my name, lol.  Oh I hope we have enough tokens (i did the "deluxe party").  If not, I'm splurging for extra!  But at age 7 I am glad I'm not having to worry about him wanting to go to strip clubs, unless Chuck does a Full Monty on me!

 

Ciao!  De ;)

 

Tags: St Patrick's Day, Drunks, Arrested, Chuck E Cheese