well, the good thing this week is that i've eaten spicy hummus for my last 3 meals. i like that.
the bad thing this week has been everything else.
it's been crazy busy on the floor as usual. seeing about 18 fairly complicated patients daily including writing notes and orders, providing wound care and preparing them for discharge. often not eating lunch until i'm about to leave for the day. pulling my hair out and running around in circles.
and, in case i'm not nervous enough about messing someone up good....earlier this week i did a very minor procedure at bedside that shouldn't be at all a big ordeal, but somehow this one caused the patient much bleeding and agony. in retrospect, it was sort of a fluke and nothing i could have prevented. but that hasn't stopped me from feeling a lot of guilt and angst about it. sometimes things happen that are unfortunate but unpreventable. i know this, logically. but i took little comfort in this while watching the patient writhe over something my hands had done. ya know?
but that patient is coming through the ordeal relatively unscathed and my week is almost over. this weekend is my (gulp) 10 year high school reunion. i couldn't be more excited (terrified) to go and am really looking forward to catching up with all my old school chums (drinking too much and exposing myself to the captain of the football team). i'll keep you posted about how everything goes (are the mean girls chubby now? will anyone recognize me without my goth makeup and smirk? will there be any pig's blood? it's an open bar, right?).
cheers!
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