Dimple's Discoveries

I start a new rigorous work schedule this month: 7 days a week. Every week. Four days off this month. Can anyone say burnout? But I love what I'm doing :) It's worth it to keep the time flying by (and it keeps me from having to socialize like a normal human being too, which is always a bonus!) But I've been really tired lately, going to work has been a bit harder recently. I had lost sight of why I do what I do, but Heavenly Father always seems to find little ways to remind me, as He did this week. I was med tech for a Sunday graveyard, and I was tired. When I arrived I was told that one of our patients had refused food and water all day, and just been sleeping. Her time was coming. The patients always seem to know, and the decline usually happens rapidly. She wasn't expected to last more than a day or two, if she survived the night. The problem was that since her decline had happened so rapidly, we had no E-kit for her, (a kit of liquid Lorazepam and Morphine to...

This week was a long week, I was working doubles every other day, with one shift in between each, and I am exhausted! But it has been a really rewarding week, good thing I love my job :) Tonight I want to post about a sweetheart I got to know well at one of my jobs tonight, one of the rewarding moments of my work came out tonight. This patient is very confused, with some sundowning tendencies, and I had mostly been working graves when he first moved in, which meant I dealt with the worst of both conditions for eight hours. He was notorious for pottying everywhere, wetting the entire bed as well as the floor sometimes. One night I even came in to find him on the floor, lying in a pool of urine, stripped naked, curled up in fetal position, completely confused as to how he got there, and apologetic. Another night he took the water carafe, which holds 1020 cc (mL) and pottied into it until he filled the entire thing. Good thing the aide helping me noticed it and recognized that it wasn...