Hi there.\u00a0 Been quiet lately, no?\u00a0 Today I’m home sick.\u00a0 I haven’t missed a day of work yet, but I felt so darn crummy today, I didn’t think I could make it through the afternoon patient turnover, work 12 hours, then be on call.\u00a0 So I called my manager and asked them to bring in the evening person early and I went home.\u00a0 I feel kind of bad about it.\u00a0 I have a lot of guilt about missing work.\u00a0 At least today was a good day to leave early.\u00a0 I helped get the day started at 6 like usual, so they’re not behind schedule (like so often happens when someone calls in sick and the day starts short-handed).\u00a0 We have a moderate patient load with no portable one-on-one runs.\u00a0 So staff can stay in the room with a manageable number of patients.\u00a0 Still.\u00a0 Do you remember going to the school nurse and as soon as your mom says she will come pick you up, you felt better?\u00a0 That’s how I was today.\u00a0 Once my manager confirmed I could go early I thought “Oh, Rachel, you’re not that sick.\u00a0 Stick it out!”\u00a0 But I’m trying to be nice to myself instead of running haggard.\u00a0 I’ve got indigestion, nausea, some woman troubles, and I kept nearly fainting while working this morning.\u00a0 Seriously, I grabbed the wall on my way back from the kitchen with coffee for a patient.\u00a0 Also, I have an old dance injury in my back that flared up this week.\u00a0 It’s not as bad as it was during last year’s flare-up, but it makes moving around and lifting fairly painful.\u00a0 Thus I just got up from a nap and ate my lunch.\u00a0 I’m going to lay low and still do call tonight.\u00a0 I hope I can power through my next set of shifts – MTW all in a row! so I can have an enjoyable Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi there.\u00a0 Been quiet lately, no?\u00a0 Today I’m home sick.\u00a0 I haven’t missed a day of work yet, but I felt so darn crummy today, I didn’t think I could make it through the afternoon patient turnover, work 12 hours, then be on call.\u00a0 So I called my manager and asked them to bring in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}