{"id":847,"date":"2013-01-21T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/21\/health-home-work-sleep"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T04:50:00","slug":"health-home-work-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2013\/01\/21\/health-home-work-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Health, Home, Work, Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday I had the pleasure of a sick day where neither I nor Jack was sick.\u00a0 It was strange.\u00a0 Our nanny called in sick and we have no back-up.\u00a0 Since Ben missed work last time, I called my boss to say I would not be at work the next day.\u00a0 We had so much fun!\u00a0 It was a bright and sunny day, so we took a long walk.\u00a0 Jack held the leash for most of it and does a good job of telling Jem where to go.<\/p>\n

\"Walking<\/a><\/div>\n

We also took his camera.\u00a0 I haven’t uploaded the photos from that day yet, but I’m looking forward to them.\u00a0 He made some interesting choices, like this:<\/p>\n

\"Walking<\/a><\/div>\n

The next two days of work were surprisingly hard.\u00a0 I had two really difficult patients Thursday morning all to myself.\u00a0 Almost every complication (except the biggies: cardiac\/respiratory arrest) happened.\u00a0 Vomiting, panic attack, catheter clogged, clotted systems, hypotension not responding to albumin, antibiotics to hang, alarms on machines I haven’t been trained on, and cranky nurses to deal with.\u00a0 I was so happy when a helper arrived mid day and I could get out of the room for a few minutes.\u00a0 The afternoon was a bit better and I would have been able to go home early except we had a staff meeting at that hospital at 6 pm.\u00a0 So I video chatted with Ben and Jack for a little bit before the meeting.\u00a0 I didn’t get home until 8:30.\u00a0 What a long day.<\/p>\n

Friday I had an ICU patient with dementia.\u00a0 He kept calling out “help me help me!” Then when I asked him what he wanted, he either said “I don’t know” half the time, or the other half it was a small thing that didn’t satisfy him (“cover my legs,” “give me water”) or something I refused to do (“get me out of here,” “my butt is itchy”).\u00a0 He was also positive for flu, so I had to wear an itchy mask the whole treatment (5+ hours).\u00a0 But he at least tolerated treatment kind of ok, so it wasn’t too hard.\u00a0 Plus he left his TV on the history channel.\u00a0 When you spend a lot of time in ICUs, you appreciate it when they don’t watch Spanish language talk shows, faux courtroom shows, trashy paternal testing talk shows, or horror movies.<\/p>\n

The afternoon patient was cancelled so I just helped out in the big room upstairs before going home in the late afternoon.\u00a0 Good thing too, because I was on call.\u00a0 I had been on apheresis call the previous two nights already, but we rarely get called out for that.\u00a0 Friday I was dialysis call, first up.\u00a0 1 1\/2 hours after I fell asleep the pager went off.\u00a0 I was at the hospital from midnight to 4 am, setting up two different treatments that would run through the night.\u00a0 As soon as I put my head to pillow at 4:30 the pager went off again.\u00a0 My call partner got it, but that meant I was up for the next one if it came.\u00a0 Thank goodness it did not.<\/p>\n

Ben let me sleep in until almost 11.\u00a0 We had a nice lunch at Panera Bread (Yay for new restaurants at the Mills!).\u00a0 Then he went to Lyons with the menfolk for pinball while I went to a baby shower in Aurora.\u00a0 Novline and Neil are looking forward to their first baby on Valentine’s day.\u00a0 It was fun driving through my old neighborhood to find the party that Neil’s mom and aunts hosted.\u00a0 It was a sweet party too.\u00a0 All the usual games (I won gift bingo- suckers don’t know how to set up a board) and delicious quiches and chocolate dipped fruits.\u00a0 I made sure to try the “Many Layers Cake” that Novline made.\u00a0 She said it’s an Indonesian dessert made with rice flour and coconut milk and then steamed.\u00a0 She got plenty of things for the new baby girl.\u00a0 I cooed like a dove over all the socks and booties.\u00a0 So tiny!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a>\"Baby<\/a><\/div>\n

I slept 11 hours last night, still making up for the call-out.\u00a0 Jack was developing a cold Saturday night, so Ben brought him into our bed when he woke too early from coughing.\u00a0 When I got out of the shower I found Ben cleaning up throw-up.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And that brings me to my quiet Sunday at home.\u00a0 Jack had a fever (101.8) and terrible cough.\u00a0 We stayed in pajamas all day and didn’t leave the house.\u00a0 We watched Finding Nemo and Kipper.\u00a0 We both took long naps.\u00a0 I read Lord of the Rings while Jack read Bizzy Bear.\u00a0 He ate a little at lunch but refused dinner.\u00a0 Even another popsicle.\u00a0 When we were reading a Richard Scarry book at 7 pm and I took this picture:<\/p>\n

\"Sick<\/a><\/div>\n

I noticed his eyes rolling back; he could barely stay awake.\u00a0 I declared it bed time.\u00a0 I hope he feels better tomorrow!\u00a0 I have another day off.\u00a0 Whether we will spend it doing our normal Monday errands or watching Pixar’s Cars under a quilt remains to be seen. Either way, I’m looking forward to three shifts this week with NO scheduled call.\u00a0 Hallelujah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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