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Monday, 22 July, 2002 20:51

OK, sorry 'bout these short entries lately, my mind's not on my work here. My mind is all about sleep lately, it seems. Not getting any, mostly.

But I did sleep last night. I went to sleep about 19:15... and Karen woke me up at 20:15... the hospital.

An abdomen/pelvis from the floor. Stat, of course. I asked the file room girl who called if she'd checked with Angela, the tech who came in at 19:00 who does CTs. Nope, who was Angela? I was the CT person, what does she want with Angela? I told her to call Angela and then call me back if Angela wants me to come in. I went back to sleep, never heard anything else, that was good.

I slept until probably 03:00, then I started waking up about every half-hour, looking at the clock and going back to sleep. Got up at 06:45 finally.

I got to work and found out that Angela had done ten (10!) patients for me from 22:00 until 07:00. I wrote her a really, really nice email, effusively thanking her for allowing me to sleep.

We've got a full-time tech off today and tomorrow, so even the slightly lighter schedule had us running in circles today, I was there until 17:30, I was supposed to get off at 16:30. O'well, more OT, we can always use the bucks.

I was also asked, semi-seriously, if I wanted to go back to nights. Alas... I don't think that I could physically do it, but it sure is tempting.

No, I'm not really that stupid. Although I must admit, I usually wind up working harder on days that I'd really thought that I would have to. That, and the fact that I'm pretty frequently bored with my work... makes a change in that direction tempting.

But no. I really like seeing Karen more. And some other stuff about working days is nice. But I still do miss my buddies on nights. And I miss the 7-on 7-off schedule.

O'well, y' can't have everything.


Thanx for being here!

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