hypocaffeinemia

Life’s been very busy. I still exist. Will be at work on thankgiving. Only thing worse than Thanksgiving meal is cafeteria or floor potluck thanksgiving meal.

5 months and change…

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President .

The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.’

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, ‘When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.’

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain. ‘You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she dang well doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumbass put her up there to begin with.

It’s fast approaching halloween, and my blogging frequency has sharply declined in recent weeks. A certain hurricane provided the initial impetus for my absense, but recently I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with school, work, relationships, finances, and so on. It’s rolled into a giant boulder of stress chasing me through life like something from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I promise I’ll actually blog and blog relevantly in the near future.

I got one of the highest grades on my first test this semester. That grade was a 70. Fun. We have another test on the assessment and treatment for mental health disorders starting tomorrow, with only 60+ pages of notes in addition to the actual text to read.

My house is a disaster due to not being her for two weeks plus not having an ounce of time or perhaps more likely willpower this week.

Nothing much to add– just tired at the moment.

Wow, it doesn’t feel like it’s been a whole week since I’ve last blogged. It’s been a busy week: we finally got power back at our house, so my family and our train of suitcases moved back in this past weekend. I’ve also worked 5 shifts, started up post-hurricane school, and bombed our first test. I hope to get back to actual medically related blogging this weekend.

My hospital is currently in the midst of a large expansion. We’re going from podunk community hospital to ginormous regional medical center. It’s quite the transition, and watching the construction up close is both fascinating and inspiring.

However, in the last several months both our Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and CEO have resigned due to the tried and true cliche of “Accepting a better job somewhere else due to closeness of family and/or new opportunities AKA Cash money, bitches!”

It could be pure coincidence that two of our top administrators– two that have been here from day one, mind you– have elected to pack up and leave in the midst of our hospital’s biggest project to date.

Or it could be something much worse.