Monday, February 23, 2009

So I am finally getting back into the swing of things with work and having days off to do nothing again.  I amazed at how little I do on my days off.  Well I know the day has just began but I don't forsee a lot going on today.  I was going to go to the gym but I woke up in the middle of the night with back pains and it didn't get any better by the time I finally got up.  I think I am going to try to do some stretches in a bit and see what that does but I don't have really high hopes.  It is starting to feel better so no need to feel sorry for me but not good enough to go continue on my running schedule which is annoying because I just got back into running!  I swear I can never get past week one or two of my training.

Work is going fine but I forgot how tiring 12 hour shifts were.  Part way through the day I start getting tired and wish I only had 8 hour days like many other people.  But then again I am glad that I don't work 5 days a week.  So it is a compromise I am willing to make.  I think I was also ready for the weekend to be over because I just had a lot of patient families this weekend that were a little different.  For many reasons but it is not really nice to judge people but hey it is a blog so I am going to judge away.  I had a family where the mom doesn't work but she couldn't be bothered to even come visit her 5 month old baby in the two days I worked, a "child" who is 14 and her mom still talks to her like a baby so that is how she talks to people as well which really come on of course you'd rather be in a hospital than teased at school, a mom who was fake and nice to my face and complained about me to our charge nurse later in the day (I was told about it but told not to worry about it and kill her with kindness because that mom is a bitch and there was nothing I could do about the situation and I did what I was suppose to), and I also had a very neurotic mom that freaked out every time she had to leave, we always told her the same thing but she would do the same thing every time and I had her for the past 4 days I worked.  Really lady, it is the same thing every time, if you leave we'll check on your kid no big deal.  We appreciate that you are here and tell us when you leave but we aren't heartless we wont make children suffer.  So this may make you guys worry about bringing your children to Children's Mercy but honestly we all love kids or we would work somewhere else and get paid more but I really wish people would calm down, be nice, and realize sometimes when doctors give you a diagnosis to either accept it or leave and get a second opinion elsewhere, you aren't helping anyone by being rude and making us not like giving you, which sometimes means you don't get the best care we can give.  Venting done.

1 comment:

Tina Michelle said...

Wow. I would not do well there. I would be yelling at that mother o come visit her damn baby. I would tell that 14yo child to act like a child not a baby and tell hermom to grow up. I would have told that mother no one likes a two faced so she needs to just say it to my face.

I am so lucky I found a work at home job or I would be super poor and fired a lot! I seriously do not know how you deal. Good for you being there for those kids. You are such a hard worker.