Sickness sucks, especially when you are the care provider

So I am still fighting off this cold that I got by going over to a friend's house to help them with something. It has been about 2 weeks now... and it sucks. I got cleared to work by my GP and by occ. health last week, so I worked myself to the bone this past week. Am glad to have a day and a half off prior to starting another round of night shifts. I hope no surgeries happen this week during my nights. I still feel tired and sound like crud. Pseudoephedrine makes me really really tachycardic but it was my beloved crutch this week so I could function. Thank goodness I could hide behind my mask.

Still tired

For those of you who still load this page now and again: I'm now going to learn the routine of night shift... then a stretch of evenings right after that, then who knows what the new schedule brings. I have been in a non-ortho service for several months now, because it does not run every day and etc. I miss my ortho tools. I miss the power tools. I miss the fun that most of the ortho rooms have to offer me. :( I am still tired. I pretty much go to work, go home and fall asleep, wake up and surf the net or knit or do video games and then try to sleep some more before going back to work. It really sucks. Oh well.

Still a Newbie

So I have been working (more like orienting) to various services in the operating room over the past, oh, say 9 months. And I am not done yet... apparently it takes at least a year. No sh*t! I feel like the particular area I have been orienting in lately has been ... well... like I have had to whing it every time. I just don't feel great about it, I feel like there is more that I don't know than I do and that I still suck at my job. It's not a lot of fun lately. And I don't get paired with supportive people or else they leave me scrubbed alone a lot, because they have to leave the room to do... yeah exactly what I am thinking: "Why are you leaving the bloody room? I can't when I am circulating!" People keep stealing the written info about systems i.e. the back system we've been using. This means I have nothing to read, I don't get to ask questions and I don't get to un-der-stand what I am doing. Not a lot of fun for a perfectionist like me who has no patience. I think I need vacation because I am burning out again. :/

AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!