Chaos, doubling up, 18 hours, and slurred speech
I've just woken up at 3 this afternoon (it's now 4) and am feeling completely jetlagged after pulling an 18 hour shift overnight from 1pm yesterday afternoon. Hmmm... let's see. I worked from 1-9:30pm, that's a full 8 hour shift, then stayed until 7 this morning - that's a full 10 hour shift on top!) I so don't miss this feeling! It's a great reason why as a general rule, I don't do nights anymore! The girls at work were asking me when my last night shift was. I can't even remember! It's probably been about 2 years??!
Hee! I don't even know why I'm blogging, probably to note down in cyberspace somewhere for later purposes that yesterday afternoon was the craziest chaos I've ever come across in the ED! I saw a person's blown pupil for the first time in my career from skull fractures. The number of patients weren't the issue but the sheer acuity of them was what made all the difference. It wasn't even the fact that in most bed spaces, we had to put double the number of beds in them. Anyway, quite incoherent now, and will probably edit this and add to it later... Oh yeah, that's right. It's the first time I've been told how drunk I sound from slurred speech when I'm so sleep deprived and manic! And I just couldn't stop giggling about the silliest things. Yes. For some bizarro reason, that needed to be noted down somewhere. Probably a good warning to people I will ever be travelling with, oh, say on any long haul overseas trips! Great.
I've just woken up at 3 this afternoon (it's now 4) and am feeling completely jetlagged after pulling an 18 hour shift overnight from 1pm yesterday afternoon. Hmmm... let's see. I worked from 1-9:30pm, that's a full 8 hour shift, then stayed until 7 this morning - that's a full 10 hour shift on top!) I so don't miss this feeling! It's a great reason why as a general rule, I don't do nights anymore! The girls at work were asking me when my last night shift was. I can't even remember! It's probably been about 2 years??!
Hee! I don't even know why I'm blogging, probably to note down in cyberspace somewhere for later purposes that yesterday afternoon was the craziest chaos I've ever come across in the ED! I saw a person's blown pupil for the first time in my career from skull fractures. The number of patients weren't the issue but the sheer acuity of them was what made all the difference. It wasn't even the fact that in most bed spaces, we had to put double the number of beds in them. Anyway, quite incoherent now, and will probably edit this and add to it later... Oh yeah, that's right. It's the first time I've been told how drunk I sound from slurred speech when I'm so sleep deprived and manic! And I just couldn't stop giggling about the silliest things. Yes. For some bizarro reason, that needed to be noted down somewhere. Probably a good warning to people I will ever be travelling with, oh, say on any long haul overseas trips! Great.
