never say it's quiet

i know better. i swear i do. i worked ems for almost 5 years and you never, NEVER utter any phrase remotely resembling "gosh it's quiet today". It's asking for work, plain and simple. i'm on the overnight tonight and it was a very smooth start. i split the floor with another PA, took back some patients i'd had earlier in the week and a few new ones. the requests of nurses have been very simple: BP's high - hold the med? patient needs sleep med, patient needs order for the posey. simple shit. i even took almost an hour to have a little food and make a phone call. i said it on the phone "yea, it's pretty quiet on nights and tonight especially".

it could still go well. it's early really. one just came up, mine is on her way, and there's one more. after that there are only two more beds. if everyone sleeps once these folks are tucked in, i could catch a little shut-eye as well. we'll see....

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11:15 pm
my admission is missing. well not really. she's just not here yet and i have nothing to do. everyone else is sleeping. i want to be sleeping. my brain is already starting to nod off. i need to make some friends in japan so i have someone to keep me company on these insane shifts. lol.

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1:55am
no rest for the weary, or those with big mouths. i've seen my two admissions but still have to write them up and now another one is coming. my counterpart will get this one, but i've ditched the notion of sleeping anytime soon and bought some peanut m&m's and fresh bottle of water. that's one thing for nights, at least we can dress down (scrubs and a t') and eat candy and drink at the nurses station. nights are for rebels and insomniacs. if only i could wear my MP3 player, then i'd be set!

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2:10 am
i HATE loud nurses, loud people really. this RN has some serious volume control problems. does she want the patients awake???? seriously. And fer fucks sake, NO SPIRITUALS. jeeze.

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2:50 am
testing, testing, 123, testing, testing
no one knows that's funny except wingnut, but she's home sleeping. bugger.

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3:53 am
nothing doin. brain says lie down. maybe that's not a half bad idea. where is the one call room???

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7:01 am
a disrupted 2 hour and change nap with wierd dreams of patients needing odd things i don't know how to order. i dreampt i was asleep in a road in manhattan and glad it was early in the morning so i had less of a chance of getting run over and feeling guilty that the cheap ass blanket i have might, I might have lifted off some homeless dude. then i thought the homeless dude was telling me about a patient that might need me and i should go back to the hospital and give him his blanket, also i might miss my flight. rolled off the top bunk and had a moment where i thought my knee's would buckle, 2 min later shuffling down onto the unit to assess a patient, order another unit of blood, call a doc to tell him his patient ruled in NSTEMI and watched the sun rising blazing through the east side windows. the mind numbing receptionist is here, i gotta GO.

happy birthday to liv, happy birthday to liv, happy birthday and i'm gonna sneak attack, happy birthday to liv
...and lael. march should be good :)