T-cells

 Last two shifts of the year were challenging. Not bad as such, because the people were all good and everything worked, but it did take all the work.  

Started Monday with a two surgeon case, and ended with another one which was a Surprize!  Multiple procedure cases with different surgeons are not twice as difficult, the complications are squared. Don't even ask about 3 surgeon cases, not even as a joke. 

Tuesday I was on resource/lunches, and got in my 15Ksteps. Only 4 rooms, and I had a good set of fellow lunchies,  which was good, because rooms came down in waves, pretty much at the same time all day long.  Even at the end, like we were playing dominoes with cases.  

Two more of our staff got the call for their vaccines, and hurried off at 1700 - I was happy to clean up so they could go.  Hopefully it will work to prevent the newest strain. 

Second dose for me on 20 Jan. They scheduled the second dose while we were in line before we'd gotten the first jab, and it took me a second to realize the significance of the date. 

I have to wonder if the reason they are getting as many of us covered is in preparation for the third wave that is rolling in.  All hands*. It would make sense. My local area has always been handing this fairly well, but the state as a whole is as bad as it gets.  Stay well, make antibodies. 

*Even these old hands. Oh, and I got an ADA exemption for the (new requirement)† quarterly-chest-compression-on-a-dummy-pass-off, because of the once broken wrist and the other wrist with an ulnar impaction.  Yes, they hurt, but as long as I don't forcefully and repeatedly hyperextend them, I can manage. 

†I think it's kinda a scam on the hospitals, because if you are in a hospital and need that kind of CPR, you're pretty much going to die anyway. Seriously, it's a last ditchHailMary at best. Out in the wild, if it's just a heart attack, it's still not that much of a chance.