Doodoo.

In a word, that describes the day I've just had. Blech. Some days are just stinkers, you know?

When I walked out the door today, it was beautiful.. sunny, cool, blue skies. One the way to work it clouded up, and before too long I was driving into a thunderhead. Pulling into the parking lot in the rain, I made a bad joke about hoping this morning wasn't some meteorological metaphor for the day I had ahead of me. Boy howdy, did I call it.

An employee benefits meeting this morning put me behind in the day's prep work, which put me behind getting out the door and to the hospitals I was due in today. I had to skip lunch, and had to work late tonight and cancel the dinner plans I had for this evening with my girlfriend to celebrate her birthday.

Also, I was shat upon during the last patient placement of the evening. Joy.

Face the floor and find the narcotics..

It's been a hectic couple of weeks since coming back from Texas.. I got sick right off the bat. Some sort of chest bug that beat me down over the course of a week. I finally went to the doc last Thursday and was prescribed some antibiotics (I'm sort of against the way antibiotics are prescribed so quickly.. but the God's honest is I was feeling so cruddy I'd have taken dog food if the doc wrote me a script for it) and some narcotic cough syrup. Oh, yes. Cough syrup with hydrocodone in it. Twas good, indeed, but was consumed all too quickly. I felt wonderful for two and a half days though. I'm still feeling a bit rough, but light years better than last week.

Had an intenesly interesting day at work today.. was part of the delivery and setup of a fairly advanced proning therapy bed to a patient in cardiothoracic ICU at a local hospital. It's a fascinating piece of equipment, and pretty effective as well. After we placed the patient and he was proned, his oxygen saturation level went from 72% to 96% within just a few minutes. I can't help but think that it must have been a real smack-yourself-in-the-forehead moment when it was discovered the pulmonary benefits simply turning a patient over has. Fascinating stuff.

Not much else going on in my world, with the notable exception of dinner with my girlfriend to celebrate her birthday tomorrow night. I've been looking forward to it all week long, and cant wait to begin our evening together. I'm on call this week though, which is the only shadow on the horizon. Hopefully I won't get called out for a delivery in the middle of dinner. Fingers crossed. Toes too.