Birthday Nurse

Last night will get blogged about AFTER I have not been up for 22 1/2 hrs and when I am in a better mood...

So I've been impressed that I haven't been into work since I got off after that staff meeting Wednesday night! I had a great weekend in Branson with my brother's baseball team and my favorite Branson show, so that just topped things off! I'm sitting freezing my butt off at my brother's baseball game yesterday afternoon at 1630 and my phone rings...go figure! I felt guilty, ' cuz they had called me Saturday night and I wasn't in town, so sure, I'll come in for time and a half. They called me back an hour later and said "well, we're OK now, but will you be on call?" Sure why not, I've just been up since 0830 this morning. I know nurses do that all the time, but I'm not most nurses and I need my sleep! Now a smart nurse would have left the baseball game and gone home and slept in case she got called in. No, I sat there for another hour or so, saw my brother blast a 2-run homer over the fence to win the game, and then went and ate,...

Only one blog because by the time I went to bed at noon yesterday there was no energy left for blogging... After being off for 7 days after only working that one shift the week before I felt like the biggest slacker in the world! I just didn't want to go back to work! But I did anyway, 2 shifts of zero pay made this week's paycheck look REALLY bad. So night number 1/3 consisted of a cervidil and a ROL who had a horribly crappy strip and the doctor looked at it, did another C/S and looked at it again and said let's cut it. So we did. I always feel bad for the prime's who come in and get sectioned right off the bat for a bad strip or who never really labor. That means the next time when they're baby is fine and they're ready to labor on their own, very few docs are going to let them just because of that first C/S. Getting this gal delivered was the right choice though. The placenta came out in chunks, nasty mec , the baby had a .82 shift and a blood sugar of li...

This waking up at 5am after 4 hours of sleep is really getting old really fast...grrrrr. Maybe if the vivid nightmares about decels and other L&D disasters would go away I could quit trying to force myself to wake up to make them go away!

6hrs Sunday night, 12 hours Monday night, 12 hours Tuesday night, NO hours Wednesday night, 12 hours Thursday night, 3 hours Friday night after a desperate phone call for help. I am so ready for ONE night off before I go back to work! Really, I love my job, I just feel like I have lived at this hospital this week! I'm kinda getting in a mood for a delivery too. I haven't done a delivery since I caught my baby, and that was the only delivery that I've done off of orientation. I've had ante's ALL week, and just cervidil's before that. I'm starting to worry that I'll forget how to do a vag or a C/S delivery pretty soon! I broke the complete previa girl last night who hadn't bled since several days before Christmas and she bled a little last night. Poor girl, she called me and you could tell she was scared out of her mind. It's wasn't a big gush, but there was definitely blood on the pad. I don't know what they'll do or how long they...

Ok, my one night off, and it's gonna be after 0200 before I'm in bed! What is wrong with me? I could have fallen asleep the moment I got home from the gym about 2000, but now I'm going strong! Right after midnight everyone else headed to bed, I organized my CD's, cleaned up my room, and now I'm trying to convince myself that I'm sleepy and need to go to bed! This is my first night off since Saturday night, and it seems like it's been a long week! Maybe it's because one of those shifts was extra and I know that I still have one to go this week. But they've been good shifts, and I haven't completely broken any patients yet, so I keep going back to try again...haha! It seems like this week between Christmas and New Years we have triaged the entire pregnant population of the surrounding 250 miles! It's been one person in after another! I think I did 3 or 4 admissions/discharges myself last night! It strikes me as slightly humorus when a 23wkr com...

Ok ...this not being able to sleep at night is really starting to get to me. It's after 0300...and why am I not tired? It's weird to think that at this time yesterday morning I was still shaking after catching a baby. But I'd do it again (and hopefully will again someday!) in a heartbeat! P.S. Everything but one little tiny spot of meconium came out of my scrubs and my brand new long sleeved shirt I was wearing underneath. That made me VERY happy, even though my mom wanted to know why I was doing laundry at 5am...!