I had a great NYE. It's been a crazy busy month with house buying, parents visiting, trying to unpack a house before parents visit, and all that jazz. So for New Years, my husband and I put on pajamas, cooked a glorious fancy steak meal, drank way too much champagne, and didn't leave the house.
New Year's Day started off equally great. We made breakfast, I drank a pot of coffee, it was a beautiful day. And then I went to work.
Where within fifteen minutes of my arrival at the hospital, my second patient of the day was immediately intubated and the shitshow of a shift went downhill from there.
Welcome to 2017.
Sigh.
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One day I woke up and realized I'm not a baby nurse anymore. I'm not even a young nurse. I'm a real adult who has now been doing this for years, and I'm definitely expected to know what I'm doing at all times. And that's fucking terrifying.
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Many of the photos showing mundane things are ones I took. As for memes and other google picture search images, I've been horribly bad at photo crediting - I will be attempting to go back through and properly credit things or remove them if I can't. But rest assured, ain't no real patient pictures up here, folks.
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Many of the photos showing mundane things are ones I took. As for memes and other google picture search images, I've been horribly bad at photo crediting - I will be attempting to go back through and properly credit things or remove them if I can't. But rest assured, ain't no real patient pictures up here, folks.
While I appreciate those reading the blog, I don't advertise for any website. I can only be responsible for my own opinion, and thus politely decline any offer to "host a post" or otherwise advertise something not written by me...But thanks anyway!
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5 comments:
Focus on the good time. Focus on coming home to your house. Make time for good times in 2017.
Noted! It's good to hear reminders of this :)
And I LOVE coming home to my new house - it's the bomb dot com. Looking forward to many years of that. Happy 2017 to you as well!
Learn from the past year and be a better this new year. Happy new year to us.
- gustavo woltmann
I hear ya. It goes on, never ending....
Good to see you bloggin'
Every shift is a shitshow.
Sometimes just for a few minutes, sometimes all shift long.
Life is a house, and the ED is just one big bidet, and we are but humble Oompah Loompahs with brushes and mops.
You can quote me.
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