03:21 AM 12/14/99
Six non-smoking days/nights... and my sense of smell is returning... with a vengance, I'm afraid. A sense of smell is a good thing not to have some nights while hanging around the emergency department. Tonight is a prime example.
A lady from a nursing home, brought in because she hadn't had a BM for several weeks. She was cured... of that problem, anyway.
A bum who was hit in the face with a brick... he hadn't bathed since last summer, at least.
And I can tell who the smokers are now by just walking into the room...
I could go on, but I won't.
I didn't get nearly enough sleep yesterday... I can hardly hold the eyelids open tonight. My whole body is tired and sore... mostly because I've been running again most of the night. It calmed down about 01:00 and I got all of my paperwork done... but I've go more patients to do the the ICU than I have had in a long time. That place is quite full, only one bed left open, and I'll bet that it gets filled before I go home.
Well, I made it through the night... just barely. Looking forward to sleeping! If I take my pills and go to bed right now, I can get nine hours... I think that I'dd try to do that.
We're supposed to get snow tonight and tomorrow... just a coupla inches... which is what they said last time when we had eight. We'll just wait and see what happens. Heh... like we have a choice?