It Just Won’t Wash Off
Well, the holiday work wasn’t quite what I was hoping. Nothing cool like ED or ICU or anything that involved caring for the fools who mix alcohol, fireworks, and automobiles. Instead I had two nights of sitting. Oh well. (Can’t complain too much about getting holiday pay to spend half my time sitting on my butt watching TV (which just reinforced why I don’t watch much TV).)
Of course I got to spend 12 (+) hours sitting with patients who are on contact isolation. Which means spending the night in one of those hot, nasty, yellow gowns with gloves on the entire time. Certainly won’t be lifting one of those to bring home for nighttime sleepwear I’ll tell you that.
Naturally you can’t imagine the body parts that start to itch the moment you don that gown and gloves. And when it was all said and done I just couldn’t “get clean.” I’ve showered. I’ve scrubbed. I’ve gargled. I still feel icky and crawly. I’m sure it’s all psychological. I sure HOPE it’s all just psychological! lol
Nothing of significance to report from the shifts other than that. Though I have been off work for over twenty-four hours now and it feels like I just left. Woke up ydy afternoon with a nasty headache so I spent most of the rest of the day/night sleeping. I’ve no clue what day it is…as Jimmy Buffett says “The days drift by, they don’t have names…”
I go back in tomorrow for a half day or so of classes and then I’m off for 8 days.
Did I mention I feel like I’m covered in crawlys????? sigh They just won’t wash off.
Anyway, SU and I had a great mini-vacation. Wen to see Monticello, which oddly enough neither of us has ever visited. It was a great first visit. We didn’t get in on the “behind the scene’s tour” and there are two other Presidential properties nearby (Highland (Monroe) and Montpelier (Madison)) plus the Monticello/Jefferson vineyards make some damn good wine. Best whites I’ve ever had. That means we need to go back. Our lodgings were fantastic and the weather was beyond awesome. It couldn’t have worked out better and was a perfect retreat.
Our census dropped to 1 patient over the weekend. One. Craziness.
Yes - one of the many rules of nursing.
Whether gowned up for precautions or sterile technique - inevitably you will have an itch you need to scratch or something will get in your eye, etc.
LOL.
Gewd times.