ok… so i’m on call again– this time, without my trusty cell phone. poo! i have time to spare, so i’ll be updating regularly.

the good thing about today is that there are plenty of residents/interns around, so they help lighten the load of A-sheets. the bad thing is that i’m now competing with them for procedures.

0800: c-section for twins at 37 weeks. one boy, one girl. LOTS of blood, a big boggy uterus, and 2 placentas. sadly, i pretty much watched and cut sutures as the doctor did all of the work.

09ish: vaginal delivery of a full term (short, pudgy) baby girl. the newbie resident delivered the baby, i took care of the placenta. the mom and family kept laughing and shouting, “gordo, GORDO!” after the kid was out. hahahhaha.

1130: the head of the department hands over 90 bucks to a nurse to buy the staff lunch just for fun. the rest of the nurses bicker and whine and bitch over the type of food until the nurse gives up and decides to give the cashola back to the head honcho.

1300: watched as an inmate gave birth to a little baby boy. i pretty much held the little squeezy suction thingy. usless! the poor woman ended up with small labial tears. ouch.

1616: delivered a baby girl! woo hoo! the mom was a screamer– from the time she came in until the end of the delivery, you could hear her for miles. it was all in spanish, of course… so i had no idea if she was calling out for her mother or summoning the dead. next time, i think she’ll opt for the epidural.

1807: dinner. ew.

2130: schizophrenic-bipolar pregnant lady who likes to dance.

2235: EFF all the nurses. seriously. fat, lazy, angry, @*#%&#$& nurses. i’m bored, i have nothing to do, and i’m getting crabbed at. how is it that these people have not developed social skills yet? ::shakes fist::

0545: another A sheet

0630: rounds

0924: home.

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