Day shift

It is as different from night shift as light is from day. Different pace, different atmosphere and even the nurses are different. Trust me, you work with a nurse on night shift and have her on days, expect a whole new animal right from day One.

So i did my first day shift this past weekend and boy oh boy, that was enough for me to see the perils of why i should do everything i can to avoid it. Well, maybe i may have to give it another chance cuz i had a very sick patient and i had a pest who had nothing going on but was just being a pest.

Anyhoo, i'm glad to be back on nights. Two days on day shift and the people who work night look like strangers to me. Of course, those on dayshift kept asking me "why are you here" when they saw me after 8am. Of course, y'all know yours truly is the first to get out of the door at 7:30am. I even leave my preceptor, which for the record, i feel guilty/bad when i do that but i can't sit here till 8am everyday i work.

One thing i realized during dayshift was that it felt like it was a sin to sit down even for a minute. i mean, i did my vitals and i was lost because i had nothing to do but i just couldn't sit down cuz it looked like it was a sin. Made me miss night shift on days like this when i'm done with my vitals and sitting her blogging. I can't count how many times i check my email, all the nurses check their mail at night a million times, surf websites, watch a show on abc.com.

Of course i just got interupted to see if a patient was gone. The kid i wrote about in my last post and it's just sad to see the empty room and that gown. Do miss the poor lad and feel pretty bad bout the whole thing.

But anyway, I just think the perks that come with night shift clearly outweigh those that come with dayshift. Not sure if there any perks that come with dayshift cuz waking up at 5:45 is not a sin or even a bad thing though i enjoy sleeping in but having to shove down 2 waffles, a 2-egg omelette and a glass of milk between 6:15 and 6:23 while trying to make lunch at the same time IS A SIN!

Plus i never got home before 9pm any of those two days i worked dayshift. And when i got home, i was soo dead tired you don't even feel like making dinner. Heck, i had to buy dinner both nights. Unlike night shift, you can stay up when you get home or even if you sleep right away, you can wake up at 2pm and do something like watch tv or go to the store or whatever. You can't wake up at 4am and do that? Actually, your body wouldn't let you get up till it's time to get ready for work.

Personal life, i've been super lazy with this AAT thingamajig. Either i cancel on julie or she cancels on me. Funny thing is i do hear a difference between now and the time before i started this whole thing. I did see a liguistics class i wanted to take but i can't because the Dean has "granted the permission" to substitute patho for A&P2. I thought i wanted that but thinking bout it now, patho is critical thinking, a&P2...lol...i don't even know what the textbook is and all i did was chat on messenger via my pda in class and i still breezed through a&p3. The fact that drexel is being super anal about this is absolutely atrocious. I mean you don't tell a med student who has taken all the year 1 and 2 classes and excelled the step I and 2 to go back and take general chemistry 2 in order to get an MD. i mean chemistry is a pre-req but i guess drexel doesn't reason that way. For them, if you need the chemistry, you will need to have it before you get the MD. Talk about stuff that drives me crazy when it comes to drexe.

I'm just thinking that if i decide to ditch the patho for the language class, i'll either have to take it during last quarter or i can actually ditch the statistics and take it then. not sure what i'm gonna do but time will tell.

Life is short. We make mistakes and sometimes the same mistakes over and over again. But the truth is, we can't let those mistakes hold us back in one place in life. We need to learn and make every effort possible and impossible to make sure we stop that vicious cycle.

I got my keyheartedcross ring today, finally after almost 5 weeks. It was supposed to take no later than 2weeks. Oh well, at least it's here and i'm thankful to God for that.