Ten Days Is Too Many Days

Wow-- it's been ten days since the last time I posted? I was about to say that it felt like a year since my last entry, but then I remembered that my life is crazy and that ten days tends to pass me by in a flash. So... this is what happened:

Matt came down to my house Saturday early morning since we were planning to go to Boston to check out a lead on an apartment, but that went bust since the guy'd already given the place away... so instead we went into Manhattan in the evening to look at the tree at Rockefeller Center and the Christmas lights and decorations along Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and I have to tell you, despite the claustrophobia-inducing-mob-scene-crowds, it was reeeeaaalllly nice. Then Sunday we went to Bing where we stayed, watching movies and catching up on rest until Tuesday evening, when I drove back home.

Four days off, three days on.

My three workdays weren't the end of me... but they could have been. The first two were busy but not terrible. But yesterday there were a TON of weather-related sick calls, so staffing was really low. One of the night nurses was mandated to stay well into my shift, the unit was absolutely full, and there was no relief for when she had to leave... so we tried to discharge as many patients as possible, but the nursing supervisor still asked me at one point if two nurses could handle the entire floor. With 21 patients on it. Hells no. She asked me who was strongest of the three employees working there and I honestly said that me and another RN were new grads working four and three months in all consecutively, and that the LPN working with us had only been working for 8 months. So we were all in the same boat... I can't believe they wanted us to take 10 and 11 patients. Absolutely not. Did I mention I was the charge nurse again? Jeez... I hate being in charge.

Anyway, so the day was ridiculous and I didn't get to take a lunch break, and I didn't eat or drink anything except a cup of orange juice until 6pm or so, and I didn't even pee the whole day long until 7pm... which was when I found out that I had to be mandated to stay into the night shift. So I ended up working until 12:30, and it was 1am by the time I got home, and nearly two by the time I got to sleep and so I'd just finished working a total of 44 hours out of the last three days... and lemme tell you, it was rough!

But it's 9am now, and I'm all rested (sort of), and I'm going to Maddy's Bat Mitzvah with my parents today and right now I have to shower and get dressed, and I'm off tomorrow, and I'm working Monday, but I'm off for a few days again after that, thank God, and Susan's coming over to play, so I kind of can't wait.

Phew, my life is crazy.