The news has been heavy. And relentless because it is planned to be so.
The economy has been heavy. And relentless and damaging to so many people.
Healthcare has been heavy. Well, working in healthcare as people lose their healthcare options or ability to access high-quality health care can be relentless.
There’s only so much your brain and your heart can take.
It’s been a rough week. Long, dragged out middle of the night cases, medium middle of the night cases, short middle of the night cases. We do them all.
But I am a bit worn today.
I’ve worked my shifts for the week, just in time to pick up and cover for the weekender call person over the weekend, and to work next week’s 4 shifts.
I did this for years, weeks and call nights stacked together like a Jenga tower.
The thing is you have to learn to flow with it. The best thing to prepare for a long stretch is to give yourself permission to rest.
And take your easy afternoons where you can get them.
I have a new book from the library that I’ve been cracking on with and a comfort read waiting in the wings.
That’s what fun looks like for me.
Find your fun.
Find what you can do for hours and hours and not look at any screens. Your brain will thank you, and if the fun is not shopping to shop, your wallet will thank you.
I realize that this could be construed as a topic for Secrets of the Call Shift Wednesdays or Best Kept Secrets of the OR but I wanted the f of fun to stand in for fuck in For Fuck’s Sake Fridays Because word play is fun.
Me?
I’ll be here reading until it is time for the next thing. Or until it is time to feed the cat.
Whatever comes first.
Y’all know it’s gonna be the cat, right?
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 