Green Mile

we have a 20 bed unit. the first 5 units you pass by on the way into the unit all have windows that get good sun, and there are no other rooms on the opposite side of them.

recently, due to some strange whim of the Hospital Gods, those rooms have all had some seriously sick/long term peeps in them this last little while. the rest of the rooms on our floor wrap around our nurses/ breakroom/ equipment island, and while they have the occasional sick sickee, it is nothing like how the first 5 rooms are loaded.

we usually have two patients each, so the general consensus is, for those of us assigned to any patient on the Green Mile (as i started to call it this weekend) we have a pairing with an easier patient.

except me.

i got two. it was ackshully okay. one of my patients had a sitter with them all the time, so that saved a lot of work. sitter + vitamin A (Ativan, or lorazepam, a benzodiazepine aniti-anxiety med) equals a not-too-bad night for me. that patient was still a lot of work.

as for my other 'patient,' well, we'll save that story for another day. let's just say......there was a lot of sadness there. lets also say that, there is NO WAY on frogs green earth that i am working any extras between now an the time i have to go back.

i'm still wrestling with my patients in my sleep and hearing beeps and boops in my waking.