I finally finally finished this sweater. I stopped near the end because summer came, and I didn't want to not be able to wear it when I finished it. Then I stopped to make a dress for Zaley. The recent snow reminded me that I need to GET ON IT and finish this thing. Ta Da!
Ah, Stargate is the next movie of the night. To answer Serin's
question, I started work at noon. So I'm entering overtime for 12+
hours. . . now! I'm trying really super hard not to think of my warm,
soft bed with snuggly down comforter, snoozing husband, sleeping
puppy, and dozing kitty. All probably wondering when I'll join them.
I'm glad Jem was at daycare today. Ben tells me that she wore herself
out hard. Hopefully she will agree to my "sleep in super late" plan.
I'm writing from a patient's room at 9:15. I'm about halfway through
an 8 hour treatment. Because of a shortage of slow, continuous
dialysis machines, we are simulating that sort of treatment with our
regular hemodialysis machines. My schedule worked best among staff
for staying here until 2 am, so here I sit. I found out I'd be
staying at 5 pm.
She's tolerating the treatment well and the MICU nurses are very nice
and helpful. I really can't complain. But it's an unexpected late
night and those are hard.
Not much to it. Vitals every 15 minutes, top off dialysate fluids,
run machine checks periodically. She's been watching The Perfect
Storm and Wild Hogs on TV. I prefer my Artemis Fowl book, alternating
that with Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical
Music. (Thanks Amanda!)
I plan to sleep in very very late and take a nap too.
I love that on Sundays you get to put on a smart, pretty outfit in the morning, then change into your most comfortable grubbies in the afternoon. Best of both worlds.
Holy crap guys, my Emma's Baubles site has actual traffic. In fact, Instyle.com linked to my site! In a Jayma Mays quote! My dream is that Jayma Mays will discover my site and comment on it.
[This is a re-post of the video, now on Vimeo and in higher resolution]
This started as a 5x?? video, one of those 5 second clip things. But there was so much to put in that didn't fit exactly 5 seconds! I trimmed it a lot though. I believe less is more. But the 5 seconds became more of a guideline than a rule.
I'm disappointed that I whipped out my camera mostly when Zaley was being cute. I wish had caught more scenic panoramas. Oh well. It gives a good picture of what the trip was like. Watch for the bat!
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6842368&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Video Diary of our Bear Lake Cabin Getaway from Rachel Mason on Vimeo.
Wow, today was a pretty bad day. I was supposed to be a 10a-10p shift. They called at 7 to say that a tech was sick and could I come in sooner and still work late? I got there at 8:30 and expected a long day. Although we didn't have a third shift, so I got to leave at 7:30p, our patients were a wreck. Seriously, what is this? Acute care or something?
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I had written/published this long thing about all our patients, but decided I didn't want a big rant about the day out there in that much detail. Clotted systems, severe hypotension and hypoglycemia, barfing, and mucho mucho alarms. Enough said.
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I'm still decompressing before going to bed. I have the weekend off. Amanda and I hope to see a corny teenager performing arts movie (FAME! I'm gonna live forever . . .) I need to update my blog on Emma's Baubles. She was only in two scenes this week so it should be a quickie. Boy, and someday I might put together that vacation video I promised you.
Happy Weekend, everyone!
PS: My car is super awesome and driving it is the best part of my day. Rock.