"C" is for Cookie that's good enough for me,Half dead
Had a terrible call yesterday.
Actually it wouldn’t have been too bad if we finished our ward round much earlier than we did. Can you imagine finishing morning ward round at 1.30pm???
So I had to settle the discharges as soon as possible all by myself because I was left alone in the ward (my colleagues had to start their call in other wards). By the time I got to the blood works, new admissions started pouring in.
BG, who happened to have an appointment near the hospital that evening, dropped by to send me dinner… which I only managed to eat at 3am (that was only possible because I refused to do anything else unless I get to eat first).
When I finally thought I had settled everything, my specialist came to do round at 4am!!! Yes, at four o’clock in the MORNING!!! And it wasn’t a quick one… she was actually doing a teaching round.
At 5.30am, I couldn’t stand it anymore and simply doze off in front of the computer while ordering the morning blood works. Luckily managed to wake up by 6am to take all the bloods.
All the while, I was having a terrible headache and at one point of time, I was seeing doubles. Needless to say, I had to poke the patient twice to get the blood… and on my second attempt, he jerked his hand while I was withdrawing the blood, causing blood to spurt all over the place. I lost my temper there and then.
Luckily the day was not too bad and I didn’t drive to work the other day. BG went to pick me up at the hospital. Since he was stuck in the traffic jam, I took the time to sleep in the on call room… And continued sleeping in the car. Now I need more sleep. I can hardly open my eyes.
Good night everyone. 