call hurts. seriously. i got almost 2 hours of sleep last night. but… let’s start from the beginning…

my day started at 4am, when i showered and helped annie drag the fish tank to her car. i ended up getting to the hospital at 530, but the entrance i was in front of was closed… so i had to run around to the other side of the building. then… i got lost and couldn’t find where i was supposed to meet. bah! i finally got there, and they sent me downstairs to do a note on a patient. unfortunately, they gave me the wrong name, so i couldn’t find the dammed person. so… up i go again to get the right name… by the time i finished my note, rounds had already started. argh.

i spent the day doing “A sheets” amundo and watching deliveries. i scrubbed in on 2 c-sections– one of which was twins + a tubal ligation where i got to staple up the belly. woo!

i [heart] my cutie resident! he’s sooooooooooo nice. the nurses, on the other hand, are a little less than happy– and the secretary is just plain angry (which i understand, being a secretary once myself, but she’d best not keep kicking me around). effing postpartum nurses call me HOURS after a patient has been transferred over there– YELLING at me because there was no “A sheet”. i told them i sent one over with the patient. they just yelled some more and told me to do another one. so… i go over there, and i ask for the old chart… which they couldn’t find… so i had to go looking… lo and behold… it was on the table in the chart room soaking up some kind of fluid… WITH THE A SHEET ON TOP. i miss the NICU nurses. ::grumble:: ::grumble::

near the end of the day, i got to deliver a placenta. lunch was provided by some wound care company– olive garden. mmm.

the quote of the day: “pounds are the same as inches, right?” - some security guard

the night doc was pretty efficient– we worked like mad and got patients in and out until the waiting room was empty. and…he helped me deliver my first baby! yay! big, slimey, screaming baby!

and… i have learned… that a nutrigrain bar and a bag of crackers is not enough to get you through a night without sleep. next time, i’ll need hard core junk food… so i don’t fall asleep on my charts.