I’ve never appreciated my days off as fully as I do now. Especially after working two 12 hour shifts back to back, having the opportunity to sleep in and luxuriate in my bed with a book is decadent. I just finished reading “Trauma Junkie,” a collection of stories from a ED / flight nurse based in the Bay Area. The stories reminded me what I love (so far) about Emergency Nursing, and got me excited to keep studying. I’ll be moving to the critical rooms soon (as my clinical educator reminded us this morning), so I have to have my shit together in the next couple weeks to prove that I’m ready and able to move forward.
Heading to bed early tonight; I wake up at 5 am tomorrow for a 7-7:30 shift (my least favorite time to start work). The rain has started in Portland, and I’m enjoying sitting in my apartment and listening to it hit the windowpane. I can see the lights of downtown Portland from where I’m sitting on my couch, bundled up with a cup of ginger tea. This is another thing I’m learning to appreciate more- a relaxing evening alone in my apartment, a period of rest before the craziness that I know I’ll find when I walk in the doors to the ED tomorrow morning.
sleeping in
coffee, doughnut and thoracic trauma
