Happy new years - tho belated

To those who read, happy new years, even if it is belated.

I've been working hard and hardly working. What I mean by that is that I worked for christmas and then from Dec. 29 til Jan 8th I was off and boy was it glorious!!!

During the POT I was able to head home for some R&R, family style! And let me tell you, it was woderful! At least for the most part. I got into a massive fight with the 11yr old (hello hormones teen style!) and he decided he wanted to go back to A-hole's, so that's exactly what I did.... and we didn't see each other for the rest of the visit that I was home for. Hurt my feelings, but hey, that's what he's doing almost all the time these days, I should be used to it. Though I'm not. Totally sucks, but I have to be "adult" about it and not let it bother me long term. Not having great success at this one. Sometimes I just want to take a step back and be like "contact me when you turn 18" but I don't want to abandon him, even though he already believes that I did when I moved here. UGH!!!!

When I returned to work I was given a wonderfully relaxed assignment. It was heavenly! It was funny monday evening when we had a RT come and do an assessment for one of the unit pt's and I made the comment that neurology was the best unit, and she agreed. Her reason was different from my own (we have *unique* nurses here) when she indicated that the nurses on neuro don't complain about their floor and the difficulty of their pt's. My response to her, "ya, because we're just so used to how rediculously heavy our pt load is and it isn't going to change so why moan and groan about it". Ya, she certainly didn't disagree with me, and neither did the other two nurses that were having the converstaion with us!

Coming back here sucked though, I hate living in this house. It's insanely difficult to get any studying/reading done, the 3yr old is NEVER being taken care of by the extended family and therefore I don't see the benefits of living all under one roof anymore. I WANT TO MOVE!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, hubby doesn't agree and so it's the bane of conversations with him.

He knows how miserable I am living here, however he's not willing to move out. He figures I should just deal. Thing is, is that when we moved here the thought was only that we would live with them for a year and that we would either move out or buy a MUCH bigger house. Neither of which has occured.

I'm done, I don't know how else to put it or what else I can say to hubby to get him on board with what I need (not want). ERG!!! Well I guess I've ranted enough, til next time - peace out!

MY new years, a little late I know

My "happy new years" was quite an interesting one, I spent it working. Though I wondered if it was a full moon!!! The 30th & 31st I worked 12 hrs each night... and boy were they interesting!!!

The evening started like most nights, vitals then meds then diaper changes then sleeping pills for everyone and tucking them in for the night.

Then at like 10pm my co worker comes to me all worked up that her patient had peed all over the floor, was SUPER confused and needed to be restrained. Sure enough, we went in there and the floor on the side of the bed was SOAKED.

Thankfully he didn't put up much of a fight and we sucessfully restrained him.... but that wasn't to be the end of restraints...

I helped finish restraining one patient, just to be asked by another one of my co workers yelled for assistance from one of her rooms because one of her patients was trying to hit and kick her. When I entered the room, the patient was naked, poo was in multiple different spots. Thankfully I'm STRONG...

And I got the patient tied.... poor guy, once we had him tied he was sounding so pathetic.

My co worker and I were able to use team work and thankfully protect us and the patients.

We brought in the new year with non alcoholic bubbly and TONS of food. One of our patients even brought us new years hats and mardi gras type bead necklaces

which we LOVED!!!! And we were loud - not that our patients noticed as we rang in the new year together.

Too bad our celebrating didn't last all shift as the same patient that we restrained earlier in the night had a full blown, grand mal seizure - lasting 11 minutes.... my first one. Nice way to cap our shift huh?!

Anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone out there, I hope it's everything you wanted it to be and soooooooooo much more!!!