Today is Wednesday (well, yesterday was) but it’s my Monday. I also work overnight, so although I know it’s Thursday, my day isn’t over until I’ve left work and get to go home and sleep.
Tonight we had a busy night. I don’t know if I explained this in the last post or not: I do interfacility medical transports. This means that we pick up people from the hospital and take them home or to their facility, and sometimes we take them to another hospital depending on the kind of care they need. So we pick up this patient who had symptoms of Norovirus. Mostly vomiting and diarrhea, fever, etc. Well with him, it was 98% diarrhea, 2% everything else. Before we even left the hospital we had to help the nurse clean him up. Then we got him to his facility, and among other messes in his living area… he has another episode of diarrhea. On our stretcher. It took us a while to get him moved over, but we left this clean up to his caregivers. We went back to our truck and decontaminated EVERYTHING. I swear, I’ve never seen so much poo come out of a grown person in my whole life.
Then we proceeded to be extremely busy for the rest of the night. I ate my entire lunch of snacks (I wasn’t hungry when I packed my lunch) at 5 am when we got back to the office. Now I can’t wait to get home and get to bed! Although I’m tempted to jump in the shower before hitting the hay, I wonder if it will keep me awake longer? It’s not a bad idea, having to wear a plastic gown made me sweat like a madwoman! Now that I reread that, I might take a shower when I get home.
So as you wake and get going, I wish you all a happy and shitless day doing whatever you do.
Cheers!