Three shifts in a row!

And all three were busy!  I even stayed late/over every shift!

Monday was busy just by patient volume.  This was the worst of the three shifts for me, as I was still recovering from my weekend illness.  I could tell I was working and thinking a bit slower, as well as getting tired very easily with moderately light physical tasks.

Both Tuesday and Wednesday had much less patient volume.  What made these two shifts busy was that we were short a few nurses, so everyone had to take on a little more responsibility.  Seems that I was one of the first group to catch this quick viral thing; which has taken one of two courses.  I was lucky enough to catch the better of the two!  It has also affected a large number of the local population, as you can guess... the two most often diagnoses... viral illness: upper respiratory infection and viral illness: gastroenteritis.  However, last night... I was fully recovered and back into full swing!

An interesting thing happened last night.  I worked with another travel nurse that pulled out a book on 12-lead EKG interpretation.  It was written by a nurse that I knew a long time ago as a paramedic.  She let me take a look at it and a few pages in was a acknowledgement page, thanking everyone that helped her with research, providing interesting tracings, editing, etc.

Well it was enough that I knew the author... I knew five, other paramedics and nurses that she mentioned!  Talk about memories coming flooding back!  I worked with three of them that were mentioned, knew the other two.

My co-worker commented that she thought it was a weird coincidence that she would borrow this book from a friend back home (midwest), come all the way out to Yuma, AZ, work with a nurse that not only personally knew the author, but half the people she mentioned on the acknowledgement page.  I replied, "Just shows you how small and interconnected this world is."

I now have three nights off.  After a nap, I need to get up this afternoon and get some much needed laundry done!  So off to sleep I must go...