I'm so tired you could put me on the back wheel of your car and I'd roll

Well it has been a long week, started my three 12's in a row Monday night. I cant remember patient acuity being so high, but it must be everywhere.

I work at 2 different hospitals. In one I work on a step down unit, that's just below the ICU, the other hospital I work at is a small 1 medical floor hospital not many beds but a great learning experience for me. I work PRN (as needed) at both hospitals. This allows me to spend more time in the VA mountains. I just work around my trips to VA

I got a job working at the small hospital hoping to get in to their ED, but since all I wanted was PRN the med floor supervisor grabbed me. I did not know how I was going to like it, all I had ever done was telemetry or step down & emergency nursing so this was new to me. I will say I like the ED more, but the things I learn working in this small 19 bed hospital will be an asset for the rest of my career, witch at this rate I don't know how long that will be!

Any way it's been hell this last week, the small hospital had to keep patients it wanted to send to other hospitals because the other hospitals were full. The stepdown unit in the large hospital had to keep patients and take patients that needed ICU care because everything was full. I call this the week from hell and I am tired.

I will be spending the day doing laundry a little carpentry and watching TMC. Its a good day for it. The weather here is cloudy with a damp cold. Not a good day for yard work. The dogs are lying at my feet. My dobby mix, Trip, likes to put her 75lb body under the computer table and on top of my feet and my 90lb lab mix, Zeek likes to get as close as he can to the chair so that I have to be careful not to roll over him. The cat, May is in the bed room enjoying the bed, she will come out when she gets board.

My youngest son is in bed he was up late last night playing army with other people on the internet. I let him do it every once and a while, he has no school today and he has to be up early tomorrow. My older sons the ones who left home only to return have both gone to work so at this time it's just me.

one hour break:

Just had a great conversation with my friend in Florida. Its 70 something degrees in Naples and she is sitting on her porch. We had a nice 1 hour conversation so now I have to stop writing and get to messing around the house.