Big Day

Today is sunny, too sunny. Feels very warm...actually more like hot. Almost a little muggy.

Just when I thought things in clinic were turning around for the better...today hits me. I was twice overbooked this morning, seeing 7 patients. At one point, I had someone every 15 mins...which is pretty much impossible to stay on time since I'm just one person. I had to use BOTH exam rooms and had my tech jump in to help me. I was still 15 mins behind even with my tech helping. I was juggling three patients already and I still have two people waiting to be seen! I was loosing my mind this morning. I bet a left a bunch of findings out when I was charting, how can I keep so many people straight when I was seeing so many people all at the same time!

When lunch time finally rolled around, my supervisor was coming all the way from Tucson to visit today. So she came around 12 (which was when she said she'd be here). We ended up just working through lunch, talking and figuring out how clinic was going, what we needed here, and what needed to be fixed. Then 1pm rolled around and I had to work again. My tech was so sweet, her daughter dropped off some lunch for her (a few rolled tacos) and she shared them with me because she knew that I didn't have time to go eat either. Shoved the rolled tacos down my throat and back to patients again.

I thought the morning was tough because I was so over booked, but the afternoon didn't look so great either. I had two back to back dementia patients. If you've ever dealt with a dementia patient, you'll know that they are no fun. I pity them for how the disease has ravished their brains and turned them into the people that they are now, but I still don't like working with them. It's just incredible difficult to get anything done. I spent over half an hour with one patient today and I only got ONE test result. ONE. He just yelled at me the whole time, swatting at me to go away, thinking I was hurting him. The second dementia patient was nicer but he still was incredible difficult to work with. Cooperation is not in their nature. It's just how the disease works.

After a whole day of stress, stress and even more stress....it's finally over. Work is over! Yes! I'm so happy!

Now I can relax.......maybe I'll take a nap :)