Eve, Alex and Sebastian left last night for Utah with their dad. It was hard to go to work. Then as I worked I went into a patient's room and it was like the whole situation had happened before. You know like Ground hogs day (the movie). It spooked me a bit. Just having that feeling like I had been there before and it didn't end well. Made me nervous the whole night.
Had to go home a different route due to construction closing the highway. It took longer and as I got closer to home I was getting pretty tired. I could feel my eyes getting heavier. Kept telling myself stay awake. Then next thing I know I was going up on the median on Park Springs. It woke me up as I corrected it I realized I was about 2 to 3 feet from hitting a light pole. Scared the Heck out of me. No lie I have never had that happen and I am so thankful it was early morning with no traffic and I woke up. Maybe that was my feeling all day. Went home and crashed till time for church so oh about 3 hours. Yeah not alot of sleep for being that tired. Made it through Sacrament meeting then went to the car and tried to sleep. Have you ever been so tired you can't sleep. Well that was me today. Finally fell asleep and napped in the cold a/c car until church got out. Hoping God understood why I was sleeping in the car instead of in Sunday School or Relief Society..
My job and being around so many truly sick and dying people has helped me put a different perspective on life. Saturday morning when I got home from work I planned on sleeping till 4pm. Instead I got a call from Alex who was on a campout telling me that he got a message from his dad they were leaving town the next morning instead of on Wednesday. This was about 1230. Well, of course that meant I didn't go back to sleep. I would normally have called and been ok look you need to be talking to me not the kids etc. They hate when messages are passed through them. But instead I didn't I spent the afternoon getting Sebastian and Alex ready for their trip.
I was told by someone that when they get up in the morning they pray to Heavenly Father to know what they can do for Heavenly Father. By doing this it changes how you go about your day. So this last week I have been trying that. It does change you attitude towards others and how your day goes. I am hoping to make this a habit.
Cole and Eve came back from EFY and had a really good spiritual and fun week. I am glad they went the same time Adam Jr. went as well. It is good seeing them getting closer. It is funny to watch Adam and Eve interact now laughing etc. It is good for both of them to be closer. This year EFY spoke on dating and marriage which from what I can tell really was explained well for Eve and Cole. I am hoping Malcolm will come away with the same understanding.
Finishing my 3 night in a row tonight at work and am totally exhausted. Hoping the night goes fast. I have signed up for extra shifts at the other hospital as well so tomorrow I work over there. I maybe regretting it though. But sure could use the money.
Here at the hospital they are getting really uneasy regarding the Obama care that will be implementing soon. It changes the way Medicare and Medicaid will pay hospitals. Which will likely put hospitals out of business. If a patient returns to the hospital within 30 days of discharge for the same thing the hospital will have to eat the cost for that visit. Since we work on a Oncology floor you would think that would be different for Cancer patients. Nope! We have patients that end up in here for pain control etc that try to make it out in the world but end up back with us. I see it going 2 ways. ER and Doctors will be more hesitant to admit people even when they truly need to be in the hospital or Doctors will be slower to release patients leaving the longer stays. Plus if a patient falls, gets a infection in the hospital such as UTI from that point on the visit is eaten by the hospital.
So as nurses this leaves us worried we won't have work and is changing our jobs greatly. We try very hard to keep patients from falling. But if a patient has a right to refuse assistance to the bathroom etc how do we keep them from falling unless you place alarms on everyone... Which will totally not make patients happy.
Economy is not looking good. Food seems to be more expensive it's ridiculus how expensive cereal is getting. I have found one store Aldi that has better prices. Only problem is there are very many so if I am not close to the store and need bread or milk I go into another store and it is all I can do to pay the higher cost of the bread or milk in that store without making me physically ill. So now I just make sure I can get to Aldi.
As you can see my mind is going a mile a minute and not truly staying on one subject for long. So I am going to cut this off for the night.
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