By the time I got home the other day I was about to fall over with exhaustion. It was one of the busiest days I’ve ever worked.
To give you a point of reference, I never finished my morning coffee.
Yes, I managed to get away for my lunch break (remember how we have break relief nurses to cover us), but I spent 75% of the time tucked away in the computer room getting caught up on charting.
Anyway. If you’re looking for someone to blame for my really delayed Wednesday post, I’m removing myself from the running. Let’s just pin it on my patients and call it a day. The good news is they were all nice and appreciative people, which made the non-stop (stat) orders slightly more manageable. [There was only one difficult person who was refusing treatments, but I managed to charm him into some of the MD orders]
But back to the post…
4:25 – damn that alarm, is it time to get up already?
4:30 – yoga and stretching with Andy Cohen in the background (WWHL actually isn’t a very peaceful soundtrack when you’re waking up)
5:00 – shower & vitamins (Kyle thinks this is a weird habit, so you probably will too, but I drink shower water. It started solely as a means of rehydrating myself after a workout, but eventually it developed into a routine. So now I always drink water as I shower. And on some mornings I multi-task and set my vitamins in the bathroom to take with my shower water. I am so bizarre)
5:30 – coffee time
6:00 – refill the half of the coffee that I sipped while checking emails
6:10 – hit the road jack (with lunch in tow)
6:30 – snack on breakfast #1 (salty cashews and SunRidge Farms chocolate nut crunch mix) in the parking lot while getting zen
Whole Foods is now carrying many of the SunRidge Farms products in their bulk bins. It’s very dangerous friends.
7:00 – sign up for break time and get patient assignment in the huddle room
10:00 – breakfast #2 (oats with a sh!t ton of peanut butter and 1/2 banana)
10:05 – morning rounds
10:50 – send patient #1 to a test
11:00 – discharge patient #2
11:01 – admit (new) patient #4 from cath lab
11:02 – get report from PACU about patient #1 coming back to the unit
11:03 – get called by patients #1 and #3 for pain meds while hooking patient #4 up to the monitor
11:04 – genetically clone myself to get everything done in a timely manner
11:15 – enter myself in the running for the next Nobel Prize due to aforementioned feat
12:30 – eat (unpictured) banana
14:00 – praise be to lunch!!!
Spinach, quinoa, tempeh “bacon” & leftover fried egg
14:30 – charting 🙁 with a side of kettle corn
Is Popcorn, Indiana an actual place? If not, it’s an odd choice for a company name.
They were nice and airy and light, which was nice because it afforded my stomach some room for the remaining SunRidge Farms treats.
The peanut butter covered nuts are the best!
19:45 – call Kyle to tell him I’m finally heading home
19:50 – commuting with a side of carrots
20:10 – shower and brainstorm dinner options
20:30 – look in the fridge and realize I basically just want the same thing I had for lunch
20:35 – start the assembly line
Spinach, quinoa, tempeh, & eggs [if it aint broke…]
21:00 – take a photo of dinner and then make a mini nooch mountain on top
22:30 – dessert!
The only reason I took a picture of this was because of the size of that one cashew. Have you ever seen something so massive?
It’s hard to tell, but it was abnormal to the Schwarzenegger degree. Those poor peanuts and chocolate chips look so meek in comparison!
23:00 – crawl into bed
I love how many nuts you eat in a day – mainly because I eat just as many!
I love this post! and LOVE the idea of drinking shower water – so efficient!
What kinds of vitamins do you take? Trying to figure out my system still 🙂
christina
I also drink shower water!!!!! I seriously thought I was a total freak show…but perhaps there are more of us in this world?! 🙂
that trail mix looks sooooo good! I want some now!!!!
You are a dang rockstar. 🙂 I love reading your posts that incorporate work considering I will be able to relate here pretty soon!
I really want to try some tempeh bacon…for lunch preferably. I hope you get a day off soon – that is a marathon (but probably pretty typical for you!)
Eggs & quinoa…interesting combo! Sounds like a very productive day!!
wow – that is insane! laughing about the cloning of yourself. i would love to know how your secret! 😉 I really gotta get on those pb covered nuts.
oops typo. I would really love to know *your secret.*
good thing it’s friday!! clearly my brain needs a break.
YES. I am not alone in my shower water drinking habits. It’s so efficient!
I swish shower water around in my mouth; it makes me feel extra clean for some reason.
phew, mega day!
I think your shower swilling multi-tasking is admirable… it will come in handy when you have kids!
mmmm giant cashew 🙂
i want one of those square bowls you eat from — where did you get it?
folic acid and a multi. doctors best and whole foods brand.
yes! a fellow freak 🙂
crate and barrel
i weirdly understand your logic. and i like it.
yes!!!
looks like we both had a busy day this week at the hospital.
omg, we have clinical on Tuesdays and it was crazy. Didn’t stop from 630 am to 2 pm. we were almost falling over by the end! one of my patients coded on me and i never had that experience… :S
but your food still looks good! 😉
the only thing that makes me get out of bed at 4:30 on Tuesdays is my vegan, GF chocolate banana muffin! 😀