Happy Valentine's Day!
Feb. 14th, 2012 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
midnightsjaneHere, have a chocolate heart. It's as yummy as your imagination makes it!
Hope your day is more exciting than mine...
Seems I've been absent for awhile. I used to be so dedicated, updating my Lj daily, but of late I just haven't had the energy or, for some strange reason, the desire to even turn on the computer. It's not that I don't care about what's happening with my flist, I simply haven't had the oomph to do more than get through my very busy days and collapse at the end of them. Hopefully, I'll do better and things will settle down a bit.
It's not that there's anything horrible happening, not at all. My life is quite blessed, and I try to remember that when I'm freaking out about all the bills that need to be paid, and the fact that I'm still working like crazy when I was supposed to be enjoying a quiet retirement. I really have no problems at all that a bit more cash couldn't solve, so when I look at things in that light, I just give my head a shake and tell myself to get on with it. Still, I wouldn't be averse to winning the lottery, LOL. I'd share, really I would. :P
I've been working nights this week; last night was my first night shift in several months. I don't mind nights, but at around 3 a.m. my head was starting to nod and keeping the eyes open was a challenge. I went straight to bed when I got home and slept for almost 6 hours. Now I have to do it all again tonight and tomorrow. Time for coffee. It was a decent shift last night. I had a nice stable patient, who has been in ICU for 69 days as of today, poor man. He has respiratory problems which have made him dependent on the ventilator, and it's a long slow process getting him to the point where he is breathing on his own. I hadn't looked after him in weeks, but when I went to introduce myself last evening, he wrote me a note that said "I remember you". Hopefully it was because I was nice to him! (really, I'm generally always nice to my patients..it's a rare one that makes me crabby. One of my colleagues said to me the other day that there were two nurses she knew who could sort out the difficult ones and get them to behave, and I was one of them. It amused me, and kind of flattered me that she saw me that way, LOL)
Anyway, that's what I've been up to. Must go get organized for work tonight. I'm going to try to keep up here a little better.
Hope your day is more exciting than mine...
Seems I've been absent for awhile. I used to be so dedicated, updating my Lj daily, but of late I just haven't had the energy or, for some strange reason, the desire to even turn on the computer. It's not that I don't care about what's happening with my flist, I simply haven't had the oomph to do more than get through my very busy days and collapse at the end of them. Hopefully, I'll do better and things will settle down a bit.
It's not that there's anything horrible happening, not at all. My life is quite blessed, and I try to remember that when I'm freaking out about all the bills that need to be paid, and the fact that I'm still working like crazy when I was supposed to be enjoying a quiet retirement. I really have no problems at all that a bit more cash couldn't solve, so when I look at things in that light, I just give my head a shake and tell myself to get on with it. Still, I wouldn't be averse to winning the lottery, LOL. I'd share, really I would. :P
I've been working nights this week; last night was my first night shift in several months. I don't mind nights, but at around 3 a.m. my head was starting to nod and keeping the eyes open was a challenge. I went straight to bed when I got home and slept for almost 6 hours. Now I have to do it all again tonight and tomorrow. Time for coffee. It was a decent shift last night. I had a nice stable patient, who has been in ICU for 69 days as of today, poor man. He has respiratory problems which have made him dependent on the ventilator, and it's a long slow process getting him to the point where he is breathing on his own. I hadn't looked after him in weeks, but when I went to introduce myself last evening, he wrote me a note that said "I remember you". Hopefully it was because I was nice to him! (really, I'm generally always nice to my patients..it's a rare one that makes me crabby. One of my colleagues said to me the other day that there were two nurses she knew who could sort out the difficult ones and get them to behave, and I was one of them. It amused me, and kind of flattered me that she saw me that way, LOL)
Anyway, that's what I've been up to. Must go get organized for work tonight. I'm going to try to keep up here a little better.
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Date: 2012-02-15 02:09 am (UTC)One of my colleagues said to me the other day that there were two nurses she knew who could sort out the difficult ones and get them to behave, and I was one of them.
I am not at all surprised to hear this! You're good with people. :D
But it does suck that you're not getting a quiet retirement. This isn't how retirement is supposed to go!
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Date: 2012-02-17 06:38 am (UTC)I have hopes that eventually I'll get that quiet retirement..someday.