And no there will not be a new site. Registering the domain is dirt cheap. Hosting the site is not. Very disappointing, but I find even this crappy interface doesn't annoy me quite as much as I enjoy writing and posting photos. A place to tell my story, and hear all of yours. But it does feel like I'm writing in pencil on tissue paper, and have to buy ugly stamps, and walk all the way to the post office to send it.
Two eleven hour shifts in a row.
Monday we had a code, a real one, with the fire department and all their EMTs trooping in to take the patient up to the cardiac cath lab at the main hospital. (Patient made it, will be fine.) Everyone immensely grateful to have as our anesthesia department head a guy who did cardiac anesthesia for many years, and knows what to do, and does it quickly and calmly. More, he is very good about filtering out people with high risk factors before they even get scheduled. We are an orthopedic hospital, with five overnight beds, clinics upstairs, but no ICU, no way to deal with non-bone issues at a critical level. The main hospital is a few minutes away, and we will always transfer without hesitation. We are not used to this. Most of us have been through more than a few codes, but a large number have seen none at all.
Then, we had to get on with the rest of the day. One room going past 1800, mine. Oh, yeah. Luck of the draw, no biggie.
Today, lots of gaps, but busy, as I waited for my last case, I helped in the other two rooms, makes the time run faster, and it's good karma. Not good enough, as my last case started, they were done, and I kept going until 1800. Still, did what I could to make it go easily, working on bilateral hand fractures, set it up so both surgeon and fellow could work simultaneously. Aside from enormous annoyance, patient will do fine, went together very well.
Making D take a nice hot bath. He's been dealing with loads of children's books, which those of you who have worked with books will know to be the least fun, other than A/V to deal with on a physical level. And there is more to come. Luck of the draw.
Want to sit in the garden tomorrow, weed, dig, destroy grass and plant wildflowers.
6 comments:
Remind me never to complain about a long day again!
Hope you get some good rest.
Dale,
Four tens (that can run long) are not my ideal, but I do have a whole weekday to myself, and that feels so worth it.
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Kids' books were fairly crap, all odd sizes, always in a mess, covered in kid effluvia. Worse still though was English language teaching: multiple different course books, always incomplete, with multiple levels and modules,often without spines to read off, cassettes (at that time), workbooks etc etc, which I might be better able to cope with now I know the stuff but then it was impenetrably tedious.
I think perhaps life and death in the operating theatre might be rather worse than either, mind you.
Lucy,
I got good at shelving children's books, but it was always tedious. A code is never that.
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