A much better night. A little respite, finally.
I found out one reason why we've been so busy... the doctors offices are inundated, and so they tell their patients to come to the ED. And they do, knowing that they'll be seen, even if they have to wait six or eight hours.
Anyway, last night was by far the easiest of this rotation, so I shouldn't be tired, especially since I got a good days sleep... well, fairly good, anyway. But no... I'm still tired, just from being there.
I really believe that even when I'm not doing any patients it's stressful, knowing that at any time a code red can come in the door. So there's never really any relaxing at all.
When I'm running all night, my body gets tired in a different way... just the aches of muscles and bones and joints; but the stress aches are different: backache, tense, sore neck, twitches and lack of muscle coordination. Well, not the last two... I'm not really a gibbering idiot quite yet.
I wonder if that will change much when I finally get to go on days in CT... I know that the stress level will be a lot less. Well, I don't really know that, but I hope so. I won't see the trauma patients when they come in the door, anyway, they'll be somewhat stabilized first.
And speaking of CT... I'm beginning to get the feeling that it might be longer than six weeks before I get there, dammit. And I'm ready to go NOW!
I've been downloading classical music from alt.binaries.sounds.MP3.classical lately... I'm gonna have to get another HD just for the classical stuff. I love to listen to it, but I know practically nothing about it... that area of my education is sorely remiss, I'm afraid. On the other hand, I do have a lotta stuff already in my head, I think that it's OK to just enjoy it without having to think about it or impress anyone with my knowledge. I'd rather impress people with my honesty and my looks. Unfortunately, most people aren't impressed by either... O'well.
Y'know what? It's time for some sleep.
I'm looking forward to a coupla days off now... nights, really, since I'm going to sleep days until after Friday night, when I'm working. Yeah, I decided to go ahead and work, after I checked the ED docs schedule. That overtime pay is very nice... I've been getting the OT on such a regular basis, I'm beginning to depend on it now, and that's dangerous. Not like I'm using it to buy toys, either... it's paying the gas bill.