Working 15 hours yesterday with no lunch break got me home and in bed with enough time to squeeze out six hours of sleep. The alarm came early, but I was showered and down eating breakfast before usual, which gave me enough time to eat my breakfast sitting down, and believe me my stomach was thankful. I got out in good time and didn’t have to scrape my windows. I got to work in good time, and as I climbed our of the car discovered that I had forgotten to grab my lunch out of the refrigerator. I grabbed my debit card in hopes that the cafeteria would have something I could eat if the opportunity arose to eat a lunch.
Two fresh c/s patient and one antenatal, two insulin dependent one with a pump. It was steady. Very steady. I walked some serious miles today, and felt like I took good care of my patients. There was no lull where lunch was possible until after I discharged one antenatal and picked up another one two hours before the end of the shift. I made it down to the cafeteria to discover that at 3:30pm on Saturday the options were sandwiches (no GF bread) pudding, chips, fruit and bottled drinks, so I had a lunch of champions.
My usual lunch consists of a baked sweet potato, an apple, and an orange with a granola bar for dessert, which I do love, but it was so great to eat a whole meal of crappy food. Maybe I shouldn’t have enjoyed it so much. The chocolate pudding was fabulous, with two very small bags of jalapeño chips, then a banana and a bottled Starbucks coffee to follow. I don’t know if it was the chocolate, the coffee, or the jalapeños but it hit the spot and I was uninterrupted for a whole 30 minutes. I made it back up stairs, tied up all my loose ends, left all my patients with no immediate needs, taped report and got out on time. It was such a beautiful thing. One more day before we switch back to nights for a few weeks.
After dinner I headed up stairs to get ready for bed, this is at 7:40pm, when it dawned on me that I had not gone to the bathroom all day since I woke up at 4:15 am. Yep, it was busy, but good. I better drink a liter before bed. Good night.
I so forgot my lunch this morning
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