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The official nightshift thread....

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  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Going back to week nights. Guess I got too grumpy working 72 hour shifts. :smile:
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    edited May 2020
    @sufferlandrian, it takes me two weeks to do 72 hours.... I do think you need to stick to weeknights. Sorry to hear about your Monday night (ex)patient.
    BTW, ringlets/pre-dreads are now gone, I feel so much lighter and freer although hair is still curly.

    Not that I don't like a chat with sufferlandrian, but where are all you others?
    Missing your smiling (or not) avatars.
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  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    I guess at some point I should change my avatar. I think it's been the same since like March.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    It’s been hell the last two nights. Off tonight. The other vet who just started working had been practicing shotgun medicine. You know, where you throw every test in the book at the pet and hope something shows up. The problem is since I’ve got the overnight shift she is leaving it to me to explain why she ran all the tests and I don’t have a good answer.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Back to work tonight. Changing up shifts. I'm on an eight day run and then I'll be on a 4 days one week and five days the next week. You would think with all the protests and Covid, we would be an ideal place for a vet to want to come work. I just can't seem to get one that will stick. We had one that had a breakdown, another that couldn't seem to accept how we want things run and another that we had to let go because needed a loan to move into a new building and the bank said we needed to cut payroll. So we're looking for another vet and can't even get an application. It's a bit discouraging.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Is it possible to get a list of recent grads from vet colleges in the states surrounding, @sufferlandrian? Maybe a newer grad might be more amenable to your clinic's way of doing things.... just a thought. More advertising needs to be done by vet colleges since there appears to be a shortage. It would certainly be an interesting job and one could specialize in farm, small animal/pet, zoo.... depending on where one chose to live.

    Hi @poland_diana hope you got the rest you needed.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    The past week and a half I haven't been working. Hubby had a workplace accident and his ladder kicked out and he fell from 20 feet up onto pavement - 'extensively comminuted forearm fracture' and comminuted fracture of his nose, several 4 cm lacerations requiring stitches on his nose and forehead, and a twisted knee and ankle that require tensor bandages to keep swelling down and support the joints. It's his dominant hand so there's a lot I have to help with and no way he can manage alone while I am away on patrol. Yet. We will get there, though. His nose no longer requires a splint and it's been straightened out and looks pretty well in line. Cuts seem to be healing well and stitches have dissolved. Ear/nose/throat specialist appointment tomorrow just over 100 km away, and on Tuesday he meets with the orthopedic surgeon again to check on his arm, that appointment is 45 km in another direction. Covid-19 means I can only drop him off at their doors/hospital clinics and can't go in to see how things are going myself. Feeling super stressed and NOT eating the way I should be to feel better, just gaining weight like crazy since March. I'm like 30 lbs over my goal weight again after being at goal for a few years. Ugh, this just sux!
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  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Emergency work isn't for everyone. The demand for ER vets is so high and the number of people who find they can work the hours and deal with the high stress cases is pretty limited. A lot of new grads want to do emergency work but about the fourth week of putting down dogs for wonderful old ladies who just lost their husbands, they cave and quit. I had to come on once because the new grad was curled up on the couch in the fetal position crying and wouldn't come out of the office. She just put down a dog for a wonderful old gentleman. He mentioned during the euthanasia that this was his wife's dog and she died of cancer six months ago. Now the dog was dying of cancer and he was losing his last contact with his wife. This isn't a job for everyone. You have to care but be able to move on.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    @canadjineh - You two have really been on a streak of bad luch when it comes to work. I really hope he heals quickly. Just reading about his injuries makes my bones hurt.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    I think I might like going back to weeknights. I actually got a two hour nap last night it was so slow. I wish it had been in my bed instead of just falling asleep in my chair. However, I'll take what I can get. :smile:
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Man it was cold biking home this morning. Yesterday the temp read colder on my bike computer but this morning it felt colder. 40 degrees yesterday and 42 this morning. We got 17 inches of snow outside Butte Montana but I'm not close to there. I'm outside Glacier. Glacier picked up 7 inches.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    From 49 for a high to 82 for a high in four days. That's not enough time to adjust. :frowning:
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    7 inches of snow!! We had a snowstorm here over one of the passes on the Okanagan Connector (fairly high altitude piece of nasty highway) the other day and a couple of cars went off the road, ice pellets and hail too. Yuk. Of course by now everyone has their summer 'all seasons' on the vehicle so fat lot of good steering does.
    Hubby's sling is off now and he has a removable splint/cast so we can start working on ROM exercises before he can't straighten his elbow or lift his arm at the shoulder. It is looking better, and I will be back to work Sunday night as he will be sleeping while I'm away and then I will at least be in the house (albeit sleeping til 2) if there is any emergency he can't handle.

  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Glad to hear he is on the mend. That sounded really bad. Rode into work tonight. When I got to work the bike computer said I was 5% acclimated to the heat. 5%??? I'm going to die this summer. :smile:
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    What? What does 5% acclimated to the heat even mean, and how the heck do you measure something so dependent on your point of view? I just think the more 'woo-woo' gadgets and measurements the new tech can throw at you, the more money they think they can charge for their device. lol that's just silly.
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  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Off to work in 4 hours....sort of, but not really, looking forward to it.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Didn't get to bed until noon and was back up at 2:30. Not how I wanted to start my week.
  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    Feeling more human today. Got some sleep today. I did have to get up an hour early so I could go get my bikes out of the bike shop. I love freshly tuned up bikes. I like that they clean them up too. :smile:
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    It's always lovely when they look like a spanky, shiny new present!
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  • sufferlandrian
    sufferlandrian Posts: 8,166 Member
    lol :smile: That is one hum dinger of a wrapping job. :smile: