been taking lots of call lately. this means that outside of our regular shift (mine is 7a-3:30p mon-fri, we as a dept have to cover all the nights and weekends for all the scheduled and emergency cases. we split up the call, and you can usually take as much/little as you want. mama wants a new pair of shoes (living room furniture, vacations), so i'm taking more lately than usual.
i was on call all last weekend (friday night through monday morning) and worked into the wee hours of sunday night/monday morning, so i started the week kinda tired. and then was on call again last night. i got called in at 11:30, stayed until 1:15, drove the 20 mins to get home (cuz they won't call me back again for sure!)...got into bed about 1:35 and was just falling back to sleep...when i got paged again at 1:45. got back in my car, shivering in the now sub-30 degree weather and was back at the hospital scrubbed from 2:30-4:00....when finished, i dragged myself upstairs to the call room to get a little bit of sleep before my normal 7am day shift started.
the call room is in this very centrally located (so loud!) area and it's always too cold or too hot and there's rarely fresh sheets/towels and the bed is this flimsy little twin bed and...it's always the greatest sleep of my life. by the time i get to it, i'm so desperate for sleep and entirely drained, i'm looking more like a wandering mental patient than a useful PA.
so i slept hard from 4:30 and on through my alarm up until 7:40 when i was paged to come to the OR for my first case of the day. WHAT?! so i frantically tried to unscramble my brain and make sense of where i was and what part of the day it was and where i needed to be. fortunately, we had a little staff cushioning today so i was able to shower and eat and relax for a while before getting into my cases...but i ended up scrubbing 2 long cases and doing admissions and other stuff all day. i stayed pretty clear headed, if not a bit discombobulated.
on a side note, the emergency cases were genuinely urgent and we may have saved lives, or at least, vital organs. it's exciting and stimulating to be in on things like that. even if it is in the middle of the bloody night. (so to speak).
so now i'm home. i indulged in way too much of all my favorite foods (i deserve it! leave me alone!) and my plan is just to watch movies and lie around all night.
greatest feeling ever.
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