Happy Valentine's Day!

I just got home from my extremely crazy day at work. Peds went from essentially having no one on the floor to being full. Well, not full if we started doubling up the rooms, but each room has a patient. We're trying to get one patient air evac'd to WRAMC this weekend because he's 3mo old and came in for Failure to Thrive. But, his labs are WACKO. His glucose came back this morning in the 700's, but he's still a bright eyed and bushy-tailed baby boy. He has some metabolic disorder that we can't diagnose from here. That will be a fun day when I am the nurse that goes with the patient on an evac. We made a feeble attempt to draw blood from this baby's veins. That was tough. Mom wouldn't let us get blood from the AMAZING vein on his scalp. So, we had to do multiple arm sticks to no avail, he's been stuck too much (except the great veins in the SCALP!). I didn't actually stick him myself, I was just the assist. Then we had to admit a 5 year old who was very combative to put an IV in. compared to the baby, his veins were GREAT! Again, not my stick, I had to help his mom hold him down. If i had to, I would have been confident in him though. We have a few teens on the floor for who all have various teenage friends wandering around to add confusion to chaos. All these kids are super sweet and for the most part have great parents too. I could stay on Peds if they'd let me, I like it. I have spent this week in various forms of standing around, being a shadow, acting as a tech more than a nurse, and beginning to excersize my skills. I did some meds today and thoroughly enjoyed being independent on that fact. I could draw up .5 ml of benadryl and not have 3 people check it, sign it, date it, initial it, and follow me into the room. Even on Peds, I'm the electrician of the unit. If electronics don't work, they already call me. At least I'm good for something ;-) Tomorrow we have a patient safety day. No 4 day weekend for us...but I do get my Sat and Sun. I work my first full 12 hour shift on Monday... which really is more of a 14 hour shift. Yay for being a grown up.

I still don't have my HHG. If i don't get a call by Monday, they're late. To make myself feel better, and treat myself to a wonderful V-day alone, I bought a 40" Sony Bravia LCD flatscreen. Yes, it's amazing. Now I just need surround sound to go with it. Oh, and some FURNITURE!! I'm glad I have my PS2 so I can watch movies. That's probably what I'll do tonight. I'll make myself some of my ever famous penne pasta, find a romantic movie like The Notebook, and veg out on the couch with my loving kitty... and some cookies. I can't stop eating the cookies. I can't make cookies anymore because I'm the only one eating them... but they're just so tasty. I like them with milk, and milk is good for me, so the cookies must be too... is my logic working for you? Don't you want a cookie right now?

I am working on the selling of my car. Not too seriously yet, but I'm asking around and getting some info. I'm hoping it will go well. Maybe I'll spend some time this weekend making some more effort. I now have my eyes open for a VW Golf.

My cat, being the love bug his is, is crawling all over this keyboard wanting attention. I am going to get cozy and enjoy the rest of my night.