I woke up today with still a pain in my shoulder, neck and head. I am thinking I just have a migraine. I do suffer from these and I am not sure what has brought it on. I was thinking maybe it was caffeine withdrawal from my diet, so I made me a cup of coffee and it did not relieve it. I decided to go ahead and shower since I have to work this evening and let hot water run and even though it felt good while I was in there... I still felt crappy when I got out. I weighed and I am officially 7.4 pounds lighter after my first week. I decided maybe I needed to eat so I fixed my oatmeal with splenda brown sugar and forced myself to eat. Still no relief. So I just sucked it up and got myself ready to go, fixing my meals to pack for the night.
Five PM approaches and I am all ready to go. I take the trash to the dumpster and check the mail. I know I am to receive some mail from Joe (my recruiter) and Alaina (my best friend). I was sad when the box was empty once again. Maybe tomorrow.
As I walk back to the car I notice that a good deal of snow had melted today and that it is actually warmer outside than it has been. I look at the temperature at it says it is 40, although it sure felt much warmer! Maybe after being 11 to 20 the last few times I have been outside this feels like a heat wave.
The drive to work did not feel like an hour and fifteen minutes, the traffic flowed smoothly and it seemed like another new place as you could actually see the terrian without snow covering it. I finished reading "Dear John" and I really enjoyed it. I am still unsure if I want to see the movie, but may treat myself once I feel slightly better. With nothing to read I turned the music off to give my brain a break.
I arrived at work with a couple of people immediately noticing I do not feel well, said I do not look well either. I said I was fine, just a slight headache. I got report on my patients and got ready to work. I had one child that was getting ready to go home, so that would leave me with only 2 kids, a 5 month old boy and a 10 year old girl, meaning I would be the first to get another patient.
That is when I got the twins. Sixteen months old. A boy and a girl. So I was not only getting one admission, but two. I spent the better part of 45 minutes getting the admitted and assessed and settled into the room and they screamed the entire time. My poor head felt like it was going to explode! Tears formed many times and ran down my face. Finally the calmed down and were comfortable with Mom, Grandmother and Aunt.
By 10:30 all my babies were assessed, medicated and sleeping! I spent the better part of the next hour and a half doing all the paperwork getting caught up and at midnight it was time to start assessments again. This unit requires full assessment on patients every four hours. So as I make my rounds again, the boy end of the twins has a fever. So I go off to get some medication for him and come back and of course he screams and then wakes his sister and she screams. They scream so much they start throwing up.
They finally calm down and I am able to finally get my lunch and then back for more paperwork. After that I spent the rest of my break in a dark room with a wash cloth over my eyes and it was the most peaceful 25 minutes ever!
4 am rolls around and it is assessment time again and this time I go to the twins room and respiratory is in there and the sister was screaming. The cute brother was in his bed watching his sister like a hawk and tapping the floor... like hurry up lady! He let me assess him as he kept looking around me to have at least one eye on her.
5 am and it is time for medications... and sister needed hers. I quietly tiptoed in and woke up the aunt and we were able to finally give her some medicine without waking him... A miracle!!! I was then able to go and eat my supper.
6 am and I am writing up my final report sheets and ready to give the patients back to the day shift! I was so ready to get some medicine for myself and a bed...
The new travelers arrived and I met them... Corinne from Texas and Mary from New Mexico. Corinne and I hit it off immediately and have set up to talk later today about carpooling. Invited her to supper after she got off shift!
So off to bed I go so I can get up , clean up and cook for a new friend!
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You poor thing. I don't know how u made it through the night, although I have learned that people with migraines do what they have to in spite of that horrible pain. My favorite thing to do when I have one is go in my dark bedroom with an ice pack and take one of my migraine pills and try to sleep but there are days when I can't and Brandon is working and I am with the kids and I fight the tears too.
ReplyDeleteGlad u made a new friend hope dinner went well with her ((hugs))