Anybody else have a really bad day?

[1savvydiva]

I am having an especially bad night. Days like this I don't like my job. All of the patients we have seen tonight have been really, really sick. I complain when we have all these patients with stupid complaints, but I would rather see them all day long than have a day like this.

The bad part about it is thru the midst of us having our SECOND cardiac arrest patient in 1 hour, this guy comes in for cough/chest congestion, and he keeps asking me what is taking so long! I tell him that there are two critical cases in the back and he was like "Well, I feel like I am dying!" I am like, "Well, I understand that you may feel like you are dying Sir, but that doesn't take precedence over someone who actually IS dying!!! " THEN they called 'time' on the second case and the poor guy's family is still not here yet. We still haven't gotten ANY info because EMS didn't get his NAME from the family! So after an hour, I am calling around to all the other hospitals trying to find the family because EMS said that they were right behind them.

Finally, the phone rings, and it's the family and they are hysterical and lost. I am trying to give them directions to the hospital and they ask me if he's made it. I am not supposed to tell them that he didn't over the phone. So me stalling in essence tells them that he didn't make it...so they are even more hysterical! Meanwhile this man is still like..."Well how long do I have to wait, what...is the doctor sleep or something?" So I am giving him the look of DEATH! So the family comes running in crying, falling out and I am telling them that the Nursing Supervisor will be down to talk to them in a second...so they are falling out...they KNOW...but they want me to actually say the words..."He didn't make it!" So I can't stall anymore and I tell them that we weren't able to resuscitate him, and I am about to start crying...so the supervisor comes and takes them away. THIS INGRATE says "Well we all gotta go sometime!" I wanted to knock the shit out of him.

I just don't understand how someone can be so selfish and inconsiderate, I really don't! I really am sad/pissed/somber...and I still have 3 more hours to go!

[1savvydiva]

An hour and 30 minutes left and they just called in another code (cardiac arrest)...I really don't know how much worse it can get! That's four...two of whom didn't make it...

[aephi alum]

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It just gets worse... and worse... and worse...

There has been a changing of the guard at my client company, with the result that it is extremely unlikely that my contract will be renewed past the end of next month. So as of June 1 I'm back on unemployment.

I also had to suffer through two evenings with my in-laws for Passover. I'm beginning to think the family fight should just be made a formal part of the seder. My husband, naturally, sided with them and now isn't talking to me.

Life pretty much sucks right about now.......

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[BSP_Nicole]

but a bad three weeks! Let me see if I can remember it all...

My husband found out that he got a new job (probably the one good thing that has happened), so we had to move from MD to VA. He started work on the last day of March, that Saturday we looked at a townhouse, which we rented. So it was hurry and box up everything and move.

The second night we are in the townhouse the washer starts making weird noises and smoking. Our landlord looks at it and changes the belts. We try and run it again, and find out the agitator isn't working. Enter new washing machine.

The toilet in the master bathroom is leaking. still haven't gotten that fixed.

The newly intalled shower door decides to fall in on me while I am showering at 11pm.

My husband's last paycheck from his old job is mailed out from MD the first week of April. It finally arrived today. I went to deposit it, and his name isn't on the checking account (even though we did the paperwork on Monday).

To get out of the lease of our old apartment, we have to send a letter from his new company stating that his new job is in VA. I had him e-mail his boss at the beginning of the month to have her send a letter. Find out today that the letter still hasn't gone out, to check back by next friday.

Have to turn the keys in for the old apartment. Mother-in-law is supposed to shampoo the carpets and turn in the keys, except she still hasn't gotten around to it.

I called to try and schedule a doctor's appt here for my next depo shot (which I need next week)... nobody here can see me until the middle of May, so Monday I have to drive 2 hours to see my old dr., and then drive 2 hrs back here.

I know that there have been more things ticking me off, but I will stop bi**hing now.

-Nicole

edited to add:

Oh, and I forgot about the car. While my husband was driving to work on Monday, a semi threw a rock up that hit the windshield. By the time he got out of work, there was a crack that went 1/3 the length of the windshield. The car is now in the shop until Tuesday at the earliest.