one and two and three and four ...and five?

i'm sitting down.
i'm eating pizza.
the pizza is really good. I made it yesterday. It was my first attempt at making pizza dough. i used ZM's yeast-free oregano crust and it is nice and easy. Added some spinach, specially spiced potatoes, tomatoes, havarti, and pine nuts and its yum-my.

i am reflecting on my day.

sunday is supposed to be Lazy Day.
there is only one doctor on call to do rounds for the whole hospital and ER.
no one seemed to understand that it was supposed to be mellow.

in retrospect, my day was awesome. i DIDNT have a 2 yearold girl with seizures or a 11-hour old baby with absence seizures who kept going cyanotic and was air-lifted to edmonton (still no meeting of Dave or Dave or even Dave).
all i had was five cardiac patients.

yes, FIVE.

and one Agatha non-stop-bell-ringer patient with Dementia.

i had more cardiac patients than we had cardiac monitors.
they beeped all day.
and were on crazy IV infusions.
and i'm not scared of them any more.
they were awesome.
and were all sad when i told them i was going home for the night and wouldnt be back til tuesday night.
and i did two IV starts. Bam! Bam! I nailed them!

the doctor on call today, Dr. G, was one i had met a few times but didnt really know because she's not on call that much due to health reasons. She was a hoot. Hoot! She started running down the hallway away from me. Or she'd yelp when she saw me and try to hide in a storage room. At one point, she came down to the unit and said "JV, i have a new patient for you. I'm going to be giving you a sick child. And there is another cardiac patient". Cardiacs are automatically mine because i was on the medical side of the hospital. And i looked at her and i said "No. You are not. I already have FIVE cardiacs and an Agatha (which she thought was really funny and a fair point) so you are just going to have to send them out some place. Besides, we dont have any more monitors for cardiac patients". Ha! I got her on that point.
I saw her a few hours later and she proudly announced that she had listened to me and the sick child had gotten sicker and was sent out by ambulance and the cardiac patient was sent out by ambulance and she had no new patients for me. Now wasnt that nice?!

And i got to bring home lemon pudding AND flowers!

And because there was a problem with my RN registration (they are slow mofos at processing) and they wont renew my temporary permit which expires tomorrow, i dont have to work tomorrow night now. So i can kick back and relax. Or go to band practice.