the night from hell
Its been a bad night. a really bad night. the ER is busy, the floors are busy, everything is busy. We have 6 people on tonight, which usually means two of us are sitting around bored... but no, not tonight... tonight no one has eaten dinner. Thats right. its been THAT busy.
I ate my cruddy dinner of a small salad and a small bowl of wild rice between reading slides. Do you want to know how many slides i have read tonight? Well, I have used an entire pack of slides. The pack of slides is approximately 1/2 a gross. But, you say, I dont know what a gross is! Well, a gross is 144. For those of you who arent math majors, that means I have made and looked at approximately 72 slides. In about 5 hours.
So I know what you are thinkin... that doesnt seem like a lot! But break it down this way: that means 14.4 slides per hour. that means that approximately every 4 minutes, I have looked at a slide. Again maybe it doesnt seem like a lot to you. Usually on a weeknight, one could expect oh... perhaps... half of this. for the whole 8 hours.
Not only have we been busy, but the two extra people have been helping blood bank and micro, not me. so ive gone solo. In between reading slides, I have also been running coags (ive done about 20), I read a stool, did a cell count (that was when I first got in! joy!), did a differential on a fluid, run 2 ddimers, and a handful of sed rates. oh, and I managed to pee. And now im writing this... but thats because its FINALLY slowed down.
To top things off, apparently they had to fix something in the lab, so they turned the ac off. hilarious. Now, its fine in here, though I am sitting here in short sleeves, no lab coat, and pretty lightweight pants.... Plus we have our own ac unit in here... but both micro and blood bank are at 90 degrees F. 4 of my co-workers are sweating their balls off. well, make that two, and the other two probably have some pretty rank underboob sweat.
So its 8:30, I finally ate my pitiful dinner and went to the bathroom and am breathing for a moment. I am so tense... i seriously need a back massage and have no qualms about soliciting one from pretty much anyone who reads this. Just let me know if you are up for it.
back to work...
I ate my cruddy dinner of a small salad and a small bowl of wild rice between reading slides. Do you want to know how many slides i have read tonight? Well, I have used an entire pack of slides. The pack of slides is approximately 1/2 a gross. But, you say, I dont know what a gross is! Well, a gross is 144. For those of you who arent math majors, that means I have made and looked at approximately 72 slides. In about 5 hours.
So I know what you are thinkin... that doesnt seem like a lot! But break it down this way: that means 14.4 slides per hour. that means that approximately every 4 minutes, I have looked at a slide. Again maybe it doesnt seem like a lot to you. Usually on a weeknight, one could expect oh... perhaps... half of this. for the whole 8 hours.
Not only have we been busy, but the two extra people have been helping blood bank and micro, not me. so ive gone solo. In between reading slides, I have also been running coags (ive done about 20), I read a stool, did a cell count (that was when I first got in! joy!), did a differential on a fluid, run 2 ddimers, and a handful of sed rates. oh, and I managed to pee. And now im writing this... but thats because its FINALLY slowed down.
To top things off, apparently they had to fix something in the lab, so they turned the ac off. hilarious. Now, its fine in here, though I am sitting here in short sleeves, no lab coat, and pretty lightweight pants.... Plus we have our own ac unit in here... but both micro and blood bank are at 90 degrees F. 4 of my co-workers are sweating their balls off. well, make that two, and the other two probably have some pretty rank underboob sweat.
So its 8:30, I finally ate my pitiful dinner and went to the bathroom and am breathing for a moment. I am so tense... i seriously need a back massage and have no qualms about soliciting one from pretty much anyone who reads this. Just let me know if you are up for it.
back to work...
posted by FireWithin at 8:27 PM
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