It was, once again, a long old night. Busy from the time I got there (19:00) until just before the boys and Lisa got there (about 23:00). Thay had stopped by the house first to see Karen before she went to bed, then came on down to the hospital.
I met them in the hallway and, after a round of hugs, we went up to the smoking area, where I actually had a chance to sit down and smoke two cigarettes and talk to them. Then I started getting paged, so I shooed them out the door and got back to work.
And work never let up, all night long, one patient after another. And, just to make things worse, my favorite portable xray machine died on me when I was only half-way through doing my ICU portables. I had to take it back downstairs and find another machine to finish up.
SO... I got to test my legs out last night, and I was proud of them. They are tired, though, just like the rest of my body... and my mind, too, come to think of it! So I think that I'll just go to bed. I'll probably get up around noon, when Lisa and the boys get up, so I will be able to cycle right into being a daytime person. In appearance only, of course...