Today I was still sick. When I first woke up, I felt really bad and almost called off of work. I still probably should have, but I didn't. Once I took some medicine and got a shower and all that, I was feeling a little better.
I left for work at 11:30 and got there at 12. Work today was not that great, but it felt like it went by kind of fast. Kaden and Cali were there, and Cali was being annoying again. The first thing was that she didn't show up to pick up a bed from ultrasound, so me and some guy down there got it moved up. I tried switching the request to be only me, but it ended up kicking me off and made it only go to her. But me and the guy, Joel, got that person moved. Then the second thing she did was really annoying. We moved some guy from dialysis back to his room, and I pressed "acknowledge" on my end, but she never did on her end. I even moved the guy's stretcher back down to the ER and then got some food with my mom from the cafeteria, and she still never acknowledged it. That meant we both weren't getting any new requests and they were all just piling up. So after I ate some of my chicken wrap thing, I went up to the break room and asked if she'd done it, and she said she was waiting for me to get done. Like what? I actually have no idea what she was talking about. And then she still didn't. It had been like, 50 minutes now, so I just removed myself from it so I could keep getting some done. There were three or four that I went and did, and when I got back to the room, she was still sitting there. I guarantee she never acknowledged it and just had me do all of those. Then she left and I was by myself for the next six hours. I had one request today that was from the Cape Birthing Center and that's the first time I've actually gotten to go back there. I had to take her to the interventional radiology waiting room place, so that was kind of cool. I was feeling pretty good at work up until about 6 o'clock, when I started getting a sore throat again. I guess some of my medicine was wearing off. I did have a pretty stopped up nose all day, though. Then there was this other little incident which was a discharge from surgical, but it was a pretty late discharge, at 7 PM or so. So I got this old lady and brought her down to the lobby, and she had all these bags with her, like damn, how much stuff do you need. We got down to the lobby, and I guess it was her daughter who was there to pick her up, and that girl was mean. She started getting onto her mom about forgetting things, but we had the things, but then we actually did forget something, apparently she had a walker. So I went all the way back up to her room, which is really far from the lobby, to get the walker. I got up there and there's a nurse in the room and there are two walkers, so I ask which one is hers, and she says she thinks it's this one. There was also a charging block, but no cord, that needed to be brought down. The nurse was kind of getting onto me, like, "Make sure you check the room before you take them down," and it's like, I DID, this lady just had a whole Walmart of items in here. So I got down there and of course the lady's daughter is like, "This is the wrong walker, hers has gray on it, not white. And WHERE'S THE CABLE, THAT CABLE WAS 25 DOLLARS." Then I think she went up herself to look, because I had one from ER I had to go do and I wasn't dealing with any more of that. The lady at the front desk in the lobby was telling me about how she needed to label the walkers. Like, yeah.
It slowed down and I went home. At home, I laid down, took some Nyquil, and went to bed after awhile. Janell was at a movie with some friends, that new movie with Sydney Sweeney, but she got home at 11:30 or midnight or something. I didn't really end up going to sleep until 2 AM or something. I played some Fallout 4 on the big screen before going to bed.
So that was my day. I mean, I was sick and working a long shift. It was not that great. But it honestly still didn't feel that bad. 2/10 though.
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