Pretty much a ho-hum day at work... I was ostensibly running the console today, but what I was really doing was keeping an eye on the tech-in-training, and I was quite pleased... she catches on fast and is not afraid to try new things. She will do well, I feel. This morning I got a call from the nurse at the cardiologists' office... the one that I've been waiting for. The call, silly, not the nurse! I will go into the hospital at 09:00 on Friday 31 MAR... and I will get out sometime on Monday 03 APR. The drug that I'm switching to is Sotalol... I've not fully researched it yet, but I did read enough to know that it will give 8% of the people that get it insomnia, heh. Just what I need, right? And during the conversion, full-code facilities are a necessity... thus the hospital stay If everything is good by Monday, assuming that I have survived any code blues... Dr Katz will test the pacemaker. And then he'll test it again in two weeks. And this is not the sensing probe that pacer checks usually entail, they're ten-minute long interrogations of Thor, non-invasive, painless and conducted by a very pleasant woman. Nope, these are the stop-the-heart-and-see-if-the-pacer-can-restart-it type of tests. Done under heavy sedation, and very, very tiring. I haven't had one since Thor was installed two years ago. I just realized that the timing of this was really wrong... Friday is my tenth journalversary, dammit. O'well, I might find some way to get an entry on-line from the hospital... I'm also scheduled to be on call that weekend. I'm probably gonna trade this next weekend for that one, so I'll be OK there. Another idea that I floated... I'm gonna be there anyways, can't I just take call from the cardiac unit? And it was pointed out that no, what if the unsuspected happened? Well, I couldn't really argue with that. I am determined, though, that it will happen that weekend, no matter what the payback. I'm tired of living without my properly alloted number of effective heartbeats. So anyway, this afternoon was sparsely patient-populated, and we had a full crew... so I took off just a little bit early, 45 minutes or so. And last night I went to bed at 18:30 and got up this morning at... 07:20, just barely enough time to get to work. And I was still tired all day. And I do think that I'm gonna go to bed shortly.
is just as much satisfied
as anyone else.
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