Hello again! I do apologize for my spotty blogging. Believe it or not, I have been busy with other things here. Whether it be work related or something else, I've been out and about.
On Friday I had a really rough day. At the end of the day, my last patients, I just about had it. I almost just broke down and cried. I had just about had it that day. I had a super super super busy schedule, and when I'm that busy, it's basically all hands on deck at that point. I really needed the help of my technician. I realized that she hadnt been at her desk for a while since I had three patients waiting for her to get scanned or get extra testing. So I walked around the clinic search and searching for her. I even asked several other people to help me look for her. No one found her. I ran into a nurse and she finally told me she was having chestpains and was getting an EKG done. I knew it was going to be something that like. This has happened a couple times already. Whenever she goes missing for a while, I know something has gone wrong. I was so worried she was just passed out somewhere. So somewhere in between all this craziness of juggling my schedule, doing her job, and looking for her, she returns looking very sick. She persisted and stayed to work, so I let her. She ran one test for me on one patient and before that test had been even completed, the ambulance came for her. I guess the EKG was abnormal and someone called the ambulance for her. So she left the clinic in a stretcher. And throughout all this commotion, I was still seeing patients and trying to stay a float. So after all that excitement, I was on my own. Good thing the afternoon wasn't super busy but I guess by the time the afternoon came around, I was already super tired and wiped out from the morning. I think if I just had normal patients in the afternoon I would have been able to make it. But I had the most difficult patient and he took SO LONG. I could feel my heart rate increasing and stress level rising as the mins passed and I was running into the next patient's time. It was a pretty terrible exam that I gave him. First, there was a language barrier, he didn't really speak English so everything went through his family members. And most of the time went down the drain by just watching them talk to each other. I had no idea what they were saying or what was going on. I couldn't really interrupt because they were so involved in the conversation. It was really awful. The patient himself wasn't very responsive to anything I did and wasn't super cooperative. I was about to just walk out of there and quit. Well, either that or tell them to come back on another day I was super tired and behind. Oh boy, it was quite a Friday.
I stayed here this weekend, didn't go home to visit my family. I attended a wedding here on Saturday. It was a more casual wedding so I didn't wear a dress. I arrived and found out everyone was really dressed up with ties and really pretty dresses. I felt so dressed down. So I tried to squeeze myself into these slacks that I haven't worn in a while. And even before, I felt that the slacks were pretty tight. And when I tried to put them on on Saturday....OMG, it was like a wake up call...I gained so much weight here! I definitely have to join a gym and work out more. I say work out more because we all know the "eating less" plan does NOT work for me. I can't believe how much weight I have gained here. Well, I can believe it because I don't want to face the truth. So I checked out a gym here and I'm super interested in joining. I'll see how it goes.
Sunday I spent most of my day trying to do my taxes. I'm pretty sure the federal one went really well but the state ones were SUPER confusing. I had to do TWO state taxes and they asked really weird questions that I didn't understand. I think I'm going to have someone do my taxes this year, I don't think I can handle them anymore. And I definitely don't want to do it wrong. :(
Have you gotten my cards yet?
i got your card...thanks for teh bookmark and of course the note inside and all the blogs you write to me. last night (sunday), there was a blackout at my house at 10pm, and i used your booklamp for the first time :)
ReplyDeleteyou should just go to an h&r block or something similar to have someone do your taxes. yes, it's more money, but at lesat you're not wasting a day and someone qualified is doing your taxes. plus it must be confusing with ca and az tax rules?