Ah, yessssss... it's good to feel like a human again, heh. I slept from about 11:00 yesterday until 06:15 this morning. And yes, it was good. I did get up around 20:00 last night, to take my pills and eat some crackers. And the alarm had a hard time waking me up even then... poor alarm, I know that it hurts it to be ignored. I was on the console today, but when we're short, that doesn't make much of a difference... I've covered this before, I think. And we were fully booked: this booking doesn't take into account the time spent finding veins on people that don't have any or ER patients or add-ons. The ER patients, of course, are a high priority; we will work them in ASAP. The add-ons are a different story altogether... they don't really seem to be adequately evaluated, in most cases. We prioritize them according to their symptoms... we have found that it's pretty silly to prioritize them according to what the doctors' office says. *Their* main goal is to get them in as soon as they can, according to what the doc or the patient tells them; and that does not always equate to what we need to do. We frequently find that the patient, who is described as being in acute abdominal pain... has stopped off at the local burger king. And, of course, this puts them three hours behind on the schedule... they have to be on clear liquids for at least three hours... and people who are acutely sick don't ever, ever want to eat. And there are the STATS from the docs... who are people walking around like there was nothing wrong with them at all. Easy to tell the difference from the people who are actually acutely in pain. Those, yes, we prioritize like we do ER Patients. Mouth pain is definitely lessened today, pretty much controlled with the Tylenol. It's interesting how mouth pain can keep you from feeling almost any other pain. Kinda like, "My mouth hurrrrrrts! Nothing else matters!" And after a coupla days of mouth pain, nothing else really *does* really matter. But right now, I'm great. Mouth pain, pretty much gone (with the Tylenol) and the back and leg pain are nothing comparatively, heh. Sleep can cure almost everything... and for what it can't cure, there is always death. Sorry to be so pragmatic... but that's the way I am. "To be is to do." -Socrates
the hum of our lives; beware
beware of any others.
"To do is to be." -Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do-be-do-be-do." -Frank Sinatra
Anon --- somewhere on the web...