summer vacation

i've been uninspired these last couple of weeks. nothing TOO happy or TOO depressing has happened at work. life and death simply continues on my unit.

i worked the last four days. three twelve and half hour shifts and one eight and a half hour shift. that's 46 hours in 4 days - more than a normal person's work week crammed into 4 days (just 96 hours). ugh. it's too much - even though the days were uneventful. i had the same two male patients all four days with one admission late one afternoon.

in 46 hours:
- i hung 8 bags of chemo and 12 antibiotics
- i dumped liter upon liter of chemo-toxic urine
- i checked at least 32 sets of vital signs
- i donned a yellow gown, gloves, and mask innumerable times
- i wrote 9 nursing notes

sometimes nursing is monotonous. sometimes it is unexciting. and sometimes that is a-okay with me.

yesterday, as i left work at 3:30, the sun was shining. it had sleeted in the morning. the weather has been SO strange lately. but it felt like i was leaving school for summer vacation. oh to be in school again! i was elated to have the rest of the afternoon off. and to have five more days before i have to return to the working world.