Heart ache, heart break

It's not a song, but heart ache and heart break has been the story of the unit recently.

One of our nurses breaks up via phone with her latest boyfriend. He tells her just had to get back to the babe who threw him to the curb at Christmas when she didn't like the gift he bought. She decided she wants him now, so he calls our nurse to say adios.

Another nurse comes up to me and says, "I have a pain." Which leads to more questions, then a call to the supervisor, and an ambulance shows up and away she goes. Who thinks of a young woman having a heart attack at work? She did.

Finally, one of our friends lost her brother, due to a medical error, on top of another medical error. We are just stunned. They don't want to sue, she says, they just want to make sure it doesn't happen again to someone else.

We just wait to see if we get a new name, like Heartbreak Hotel, anytime soon.  Stay tuned...

Ack!

Nothing like calling in on a Monday morning. The supervisor didn't sound too thrilled, but then again, it's sucks when 1) you've hacked and coughed green stuff all night, 2) you can't talk and 3) you ache so bad you feel as if you've just completed an assignment with 3- 300+ lb. tetraplegic patients.

Back to bed for me...more later.