1. My husband
2. My kids (of course)
3. Being in control of my grocery shopping trips (no car at the Casa)
4. Shopping for my kids' fall clothes
5. My dogs
6. My favorite tacos
7. Sushi
8. My own room
9. The TIVO
10. Reading Little House on the Prarie with Stella
11. My own kitchen
12. My clothes (I packed sparsely and I am hella sick of my wardrobe here)
13. Waking up at a decent hour (AKA not 5:00am)
14. Emptying one garbage can a day instead of 10
15. Target
16. Shoes that aren't sneakers
Sunday, October 11, 2009
5 days left
So, I am now down to 5 days to go. Can I say it went by quickly? Yes and no. There were times when every hour was difficult and passed slowly and times that were wonderful and felt not like work at all. It's 2:00am and I am first on for a birth right now and it feels just fine.
The deal with being first on (if you get to keep the birth, but that is a whole other story) is that you have to stay with your client until 2 hours postpartum and have your paperwork as far as it can be and then you can turn it over to the person who relieves you at the end of your shift. The best possible scenario would be that your client delivers her placenta at 4:00 and you begin your PP vitals then; two hours later you have your paperwork as far as you can take it (including birth certificate and photo stickers) and then when the next first on shows up at 6:00 you can hand your client over to them to discharge. Awesome when it was your birth... sucky when you are the new first on and you have to finish vitals, discharge them, clean the room, and do the laundry.
If you are first on and you have had a client in labor but your shift ends she must be imminent in order for you to keep her as a primary... if not you must turn her over to the next first on. This can completely SUCK if you needed to count that birth, especially if you have done a lot of labor work with her. But, what goes around comes around here and soon enough someone will be turning a birth over to you when their shift ends.
Back to leaving soon... I'm really really going to miss the people here. A'Maya is awesome, I have learned so much from her without even really realizing that she's teaching me. And the resident I would completely stalk into being my best friend if we lived anywhere near each other... I'm probably going to miss her the most. The other interns too, we have (what I firmly believe to be) the best group possible; everyone is hilarious and hard working and we're all genuinely happy for each other when things go well and worried when things seem off... I love these women.
I have a BRUTAL week of shifts ahead of me thanks to the awesome A'Maya trying to make sure I get what I need. It's going to be hellacious though; on Monday I work 24 hours straight, then a couple of first on days and a first on at night that goes directly into a first on day so that means I will work from 6pm-6am and then directly into 6am-6pm again that night... it's going to be hallucination levels of exhaustion.
I just made really bad coffee. If you are in any way a coffee aficionado bring your own coffee and press.
The deal with being first on (if you get to keep the birth, but that is a whole other story) is that you have to stay with your client until 2 hours postpartum and have your paperwork as far as it can be and then you can turn it over to the person who relieves you at the end of your shift. The best possible scenario would be that your client delivers her placenta at 4:00 and you begin your PP vitals then; two hours later you have your paperwork as far as you can take it (including birth certificate and photo stickers) and then when the next first on shows up at 6:00 you can hand your client over to them to discharge. Awesome when it was your birth... sucky when you are the new first on and you have to finish vitals, discharge them, clean the room, and do the laundry.
If you are first on and you have had a client in labor but your shift ends she must be imminent in order for you to keep her as a primary... if not you must turn her over to the next first on. This can completely SUCK if you needed to count that birth, especially if you have done a lot of labor work with her. But, what goes around comes around here and soon enough someone will be turning a birth over to you when their shift ends.
Back to leaving soon... I'm really really going to miss the people here. A'Maya is awesome, I have learned so much from her without even really realizing that she's teaching me. And the resident I would completely stalk into being my best friend if we lived anywhere near each other... I'm probably going to miss her the most. The other interns too, we have (what I firmly believe to be) the best group possible; everyone is hilarious and hard working and we're all genuinely happy for each other when things go well and worried when things seem off... I love these women.
I have a BRUTAL week of shifts ahead of me thanks to the awesome A'Maya trying to make sure I get what I need. It's going to be hellacious though; on Monday I work 24 hours straight, then a couple of first on days and a first on at night that goes directly into a first on day so that means I will work from 6pm-6am and then directly into 6am-6pm again that night... it's going to be hallucination levels of exhaustion.
I just made really bad coffee. If you are in any way a coffee aficionado bring your own coffee and press.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Oops
I fell behind there for a bit!
I had a long dry spell where I did not catch a baby for an entire week; it sucked. Watching other interns catch 2 or 3 in one day and so now I have been here for 5 weeks and have only caught 8 babies. 8 is a good number but I think I had caught 6 of those 8 in two weeks. Then I had two days off in a row which kind of sucks because you're here and you paid for it and I was just hanging around doing nothing.
Anyway, I'm leaving in 9 days... I will be back home in just 9 days. I can't wait; I miss my kids an immense amount. Today I felt pretty sad about having missed 6 weeks of their lives that I'll never be able to get back. I just cannot wait to see them and hear everything they have to say.
Right now I have a cold and it SUCKS. My shift yesterday was 6am to 6pm and I pretty much wanted to die the entire time. I did catch a baby but I was so zonked from this cold that it wasn't all that enjoyable.
But then E drove me to Pei Wei and everything was all better.... kind of. I pigged out and went to bed at 9:30 although because I was second on (so I was on call until 6am) I didn't go deeply to sleep until I knew I was off call completely. And now today I still feel pretty crappy but I'm first on tonight so hopefully I will either feel better by then or there will be no babies tonight.
I had a long dry spell where I did not catch a baby for an entire week; it sucked. Watching other interns catch 2 or 3 in one day and so now I have been here for 5 weeks and have only caught 8 babies. 8 is a good number but I think I had caught 6 of those 8 in two weeks. Then I had two days off in a row which kind of sucks because you're here and you paid for it and I was just hanging around doing nothing.
Anyway, I'm leaving in 9 days... I will be back home in just 9 days. I can't wait; I miss my kids an immense amount. Today I felt pretty sad about having missed 6 weeks of their lives that I'll never be able to get back. I just cannot wait to see them and hear everything they have to say.
Right now I have a cold and it SUCKS. My shift yesterday was 6am to 6pm and I pretty much wanted to die the entire time. I did catch a baby but I was so zonked from this cold that it wasn't all that enjoyable.
But then E drove me to Pei Wei and everything was all better.... kind of. I pigged out and went to bed at 9:30 although because I was second on (so I was on call until 6am) I didn't go deeply to sleep until I knew I was off call completely. And now today I still feel pretty crappy but I'm first on tonight so hopefully I will either feel better by then or there will be no babies tonight.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
two weeks left
Somehow all of the sudden it got down to two weeks to go. I can't say that I'm sad although I truly love our intern group; I feel like I got very lucky with the group of women I have with me. We got a new intern a few days ago and we all fell instantly in love with her.
In the past three shifts I have managed to miss about 9 births and it sucks. I really only need a handful of stuff before I leave and for the first time I'm starting to fret about it. Wednesday morning I had to give a birth to the next on because I had been up (literally) all night with random labor checks and by the time this labor started going I was so tired I couldn't count heart tones or do simple math. It sucked. I could have made it through the birth but the 2-3 hours of vitals afterward would have killed me. I've probably already said this but when you catch a baby you are responsible for a minimum of two hours of postpartum vitals and all of the paperwork through the birth certificate... it's an immense amount of work.
We kind of have an influx of interns so I'm a wee bit worried about getting the very last of my numbers but, you know, whatever... can't stress the numbers too much or you will miss the forest for the trees.
Tonight I'm second on so I have to sleep with one ear open for the intercom. You get paged and it can be incredibly jarring if you are deeply asleep to have to jump up and run across to the clinic. If you are at all able to sleep in your bra and scrubs I highly recommend it... I once had to do a birth without my bra on and it sucked.
In the past three shifts I have managed to miss about 9 births and it sucks. I really only need a handful of stuff before I leave and for the first time I'm starting to fret about it. Wednesday morning I had to give a birth to the next on because I had been up (literally) all night with random labor checks and by the time this labor started going I was so tired I couldn't count heart tones or do simple math. It sucked. I could have made it through the birth but the 2-3 hours of vitals afterward would have killed me. I've probably already said this but when you catch a baby you are responsible for a minimum of two hours of postpartum vitals and all of the paperwork through the birth certificate... it's an immense amount of work.
We kind of have an influx of interns so I'm a wee bit worried about getting the very last of my numbers but, you know, whatever... can't stress the numbers too much or you will miss the forest for the trees.
Tonight I'm second on so I have to sleep with one ear open for the intercom. You get paged and it can be incredibly jarring if you are deeply asleep to have to jump up and run across to the clinic. If you are at all able to sleep in your bra and scrubs I highly recommend it... I once had to do a birth without my bra on and it sucked.
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