A lot on my mind :-/

Yeah, it's been almost 4 days since I've blogged....WTH??  Well, lets see, work on Christmas Eve, then Christmas, then work all weekend.  That tends to eat up one's time more or less.

1st things 1st, I was very frustrated with a doc on Christmas Eve.  He is getting worse yearly, and reminds me of Eeyore(ya know the negative nellie, sighing, me-oh-my, whoaz me dude, from Winnie the Pooh?) 

Yeah, him. 

Anyhow, we have rounds where we go over the new patients on the unit.  Luckily or unluckily it was me with the new dude (patient) on the block.

Did I mention that I had an asshole  (from Wikipedia *Asshole (or arsehole in British English and Australian English) is slang for the anus and is often used as an insult.*) cardiologist on the case too?  Yay me!  Merry Christmas!  Cardiologist not there, at some frickin party

 or so it sounded like after got a hold of his butt about 3 hrs later. 

Anyhow, back to Dr Eeyore.  Basically in a nutshell I told him what was going on with my patient, my concerns, my frustrations with said cardiologist in regards to doing a fly-by rounds ie; barely talking with me or looking at me for that matter (not too unusual for some docs, but fuckingly frustrating for us nurses), said nurse of pt for the next 12hrs.  Cardiology (Mr Asshole) did not order statins and/or an ACE inhibitor for said pt, even tho said patient was somewhat status post cardiac stent placement....like HELLLO???  Anyone home in there?

Dr Eyeore or should I call him Dr Brillance?,

then basically vomited everything that I had told him in the last 30 minutes

back at me as a question.  Like...ok, what frickin planet am I on here?  Did you not hear anything I said to you?  Are you that thick headed or do you just not give a shit?  I would think it was 10% hard-headedness   and 90% SOL Ms. Nurse that you are.  Then he proceeds to sigh and act like it was the hardest chore in the world to sit on rounds...where 1) he doesn't LISTEN and 2) he doesn't LISTEN!!!!  By the way, thanks to my expert nursing and most Xcellent care, my patient lives and is downgraded to another floor.

Ahhhh, I'm off work.  Stuff the stockings, place Santa gifts under the tree (yep, my kiddos still get a few gifts from old St Nick), bedtime for a hard working girl here.  Christmas arrives.  My son, is dragging his feet to get up.  My daughter is chomping at the bit (even at 16) to open gifts.  We do the gift thang.

I tell my husband before he opens the sat radio...no griping, just enjoy.  I think I shocked him.  Only to find out tho, he doesn't think he will use it that often.  WTH?

The day only gets better.  Bought dessert for Christmas dinner with some rolls.  According to some family members rolls are most great, to others, rolls are either too organic or yeasty or something...sounds nice, huh?  Dessert is great.  Red velvet cake I bought at Costco.  I have to admit the cake itself was good, sorta dense (had 4 layers to it), the cream cheese frosting was ok in small amounts.  Anything more than that would make you an instant diabetic.  I think maybe 3 peeps ended up eating the cake.  Man, pretty much 0/3 at this point of the day.  Time to call it quits for Christmas 09'.

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