Child who stays up late wakes up early...at 0500.
Why? There's a leak in his room from the dehumidifier he noticed when he got out of bed.
Husband's cell phone has an annoying chirp whenever the battery runs low on power. This started going off before 0500.Trying to hunt it down in the dark was a treat, since it only beeps every 30 seconds.
Dog is now barking, because, don't you know it's 0600 and you people usually feed me by now.
Will be so glad when they leave to go to the driving range so I can go back to sleep...
Showing posts with label husbands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label husbands. Show all posts
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Sunday, July 24, 2011
My least favorite thing
As a nurse, revolves around a body product. Yes, I deal with pee, poop, blood and sputum all the time, but my Achilles heel (in the right context) is emesis.
That regular ol' vomit will send yours truly to sick bay in the right circumstances. Alas, sometimes those rascally patients will do it once in a while.
So at work the other day, at the nurses' station, I was talking to the charge nurse and a few others about these Achilles heel issues we have.
Charge nurse: "Oh, I just can't do sputum. Coughing, spitting...yuck!" To Mr. J., one of our characters with a trach who hangs out at the nurses' station to catch up on gossip between therapies, "J., I know I've known you for years, but you'd better not cough anything over here or else." J. just rolled his eyes and went somewhere else, since we started grossing him out. Obviously, no gossip was going to be discussed.
Newbie nurse: "I worry about someone having an arterial bleed. That much blood is scary. What if I pass out and can't hold pressure anymore?"
Our most experienced rehab NP: "RehabRN, did I ever tell you about when I worked at the kids camp one summer before cell phones? (this automatically piques the interest of the junior nurses, who can't imagine life without one.)"
"I had a kid with a high temp that wouldn't go down whatever I did. I was really worried about him, so I called the parents at camp and told them what ER I was taking Johnny to. On my way out of camp, my husband Bob was driving in, per usual. I rolled down the window, told him what was going on and that he could stay or follow me."
"I thought Bob elected to stay back at camp, so I kept going to the ER. All of a sudden, Johnny says, 'My stomach really hurts, I think I'm going to be sick.' So I pull over to the side of the road, and he opens door."
"What I didn't know, was that Bob decided to follow me, stop once he saw me pull over, then approach the passenger's side of the car. Kid then proceeded to vomit all over Bob once he opened the door."
"Needless to say, Bob doesn't approach the car from the passenger's side of the car anymore."
Lessons learned: Listen to your experienced NP wife, get a cell phone, and never assume anything with kids.
(BTW this post was inspired by NurseXY's comment about his sick kid. Hope you have a great vacation, dude, with little to no more vomit in store!)
That regular ol' vomit will send yours truly to sick bay in the right circumstances. Alas, sometimes those rascally patients will do it once in a while.
So at work the other day, at the nurses' station, I was talking to the charge nurse and a few others about these Achilles heel issues we have.
Charge nurse: "Oh, I just can't do sputum. Coughing, spitting...yuck!" To Mr. J., one of our characters with a trach who hangs out at the nurses' station to catch up on gossip between therapies, "J., I know I've known you for years, but you'd better not cough anything over here or else." J. just rolled his eyes and went somewhere else, since we started grossing him out. Obviously, no gossip was going to be discussed.
Newbie nurse: "I worry about someone having an arterial bleed. That much blood is scary. What if I pass out and can't hold pressure anymore?"
Our most experienced rehab NP: "RehabRN, did I ever tell you about when I worked at the kids camp one summer before cell phones? (this automatically piques the interest of the junior nurses, who can't imagine life without one.)"
"I had a kid with a high temp that wouldn't go down whatever I did. I was really worried about him, so I called the parents at camp and told them what ER I was taking Johnny to. On my way out of camp, my husband Bob was driving in, per usual. I rolled down the window, told him what was going on and that he could stay or follow me."
"I thought Bob elected to stay back at camp, so I kept going to the ER. All of a sudden, Johnny says, 'My stomach really hurts, I think I'm going to be sick.' So I pull over to the side of the road, and he opens door."
"What I didn't know, was that Bob decided to follow me, stop once he saw me pull over, then approach the passenger's side of the car. Kid then proceeded to vomit all over Bob once he opened the door."
"Needless to say, Bob doesn't approach the car from the passenger's side of the car anymore."
Lessons learned: Listen to your experienced NP wife, get a cell phone, and never assume anything with kids.
(BTW this post was inspired by NurseXY's comment about his sick kid. Hope you have a great vacation, dude, with little to no more vomit in store!)
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A wonderful present
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there”
Charles F. Kettering quotes (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)
Today is my best friend's birthday. We went out to celebrate recently on my day off. We escaped children, dogs and husbands to sit and enjoy ourselves discussing everything and nothing at all. Thank goodness we had a wonderful waitress who didn't mind that we took a two hour lunch chitchatting!
And today, I got a present. Besides having a wonderful friend, I found out I was chosen to work in a different part of the Hotel. It will be a change from my normal routine, but it will be interesting nevertheless. I have never interacted with patients daily in this type of clinic, so it will be exciting.
I'm still on hold as to when I'll move to that area of the Hotel. I can now wait without wondering what was going on in HR.
Stay tuned...
Charles F. Kettering quotes (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)
Today is my best friend's birthday. We went out to celebrate recently on my day off. We escaped children, dogs and husbands to sit and enjoy ourselves discussing everything and nothing at all. Thank goodness we had a wonderful waitress who didn't mind that we took a two hour lunch chitchatting!
And today, I got a present. Besides having a wonderful friend, I found out I was chosen to work in a different part of the Hotel. It will be a change from my normal routine, but it will be interesting nevertheless. I have never interacted with patients daily in this type of clinic, so it will be exciting.
I'm still on hold as to when I'll move to that area of the Hotel. I can now wait without wondering what was going on in HR.
Stay tuned...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
On the eve of the voyage
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley
Yours truly, Dahey and Bubba will be heading down the long road travelling for a piece. Will update as we can.
Stay tuned for exciting updates from the road. Kids (and husbands) are so much fun.
Yours truly, Dahey and Bubba will be heading down the long road travelling for a piece. Will update as we can.
Stay tuned for exciting updates from the road. Kids (and husbands) are so much fun.
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