the big 2-5

today definitely had its ups & downs.

first-it started out crappy. each day at work we are assigned an area. there's triage, exam rooms, obs, and trauma/treatment. i had trauma/treatment rooms today, & i had two patients as soon as i walked in the door. the SWEET, sweet night shift discharged one of them right after 7a, and they also got all the labwork, accessed the port, & placed a new line on my other patient.

I call that being the bomb.com


then- i realize that the patient still in trauma is going to try & chew through all access lines while also ripping them out of his arms. not so awesome. i spend two hours taking the tubing out of his mouth, giving drugs, and running fluids. not so fun.


BUT- i find out that my shift got me a card for my birthday, and my sweet charge nurse has also baked a yummy cake! it was a chocolate cake with strawberry icing mixed into the batter. i had never had such a thing. so-when i finally get a chance to eat my grits & grapes for breakfast, i added cake to my plate. so, so yummy!


the day isn't going too bad at all until we have a baby go apneic. we have to tube them and start compressions. that means lots of confusing paperwork for me in addition to the seriousness of a sick, sick baby. we got the baby back and transferred her out of the unit to the PICU. i finally get lunch & a bathroom break around 4 p.m. thank goodness the fabulous people i work with who helped with other trauma/treatment patients during that time and they helped so much with taking care of the baby that coded. we is all about the teamwork in the ped.

the day FINALLY ended with good times at the cazuelas. we deserved some yummy food & good drinks after this five! i caught the table on fire with the flaming shot, but they didn't have to call 911, so i think we are okay. we might be able to go back (unfortunately i didn't get any of these pictures of the table on fire on my camera).





tomorrow i go to the beach with my parents for a few days. i'm ready for some sun. i am so, so pale! sweet krissy boo is going to make sure lucy is okay thursday night before she goes to atlanta for the weekend. she's pretty important, and she has a lot of fun stuff going on. too bad she won't blog about any of it!!