Pulled to PEDS

Oh, how I love my job! I have decided that I was meant to work in the health care field! Really, I do believe this is my destiny! ("You are my density, I mean . . . destiny")

Every once in a while, an area or floor of the hospital is short staffed, and so they request a PCT or RN from another floor. On Mom/Baby, each PCT takes turns to get 'pulled' to another floor. Most people don't like to be pulled because you're on a floor you're unfamiliar with, and doing routines you're not accustomed to. Tonight PEDS at AF was short staffed, and it was my turn to be pulled. I wasn't super excited about it, but wasn't dreading it since my cute Sister Janice works there. Honestly, I love it here! I really love taking care of people and helping people through difficult situations! On Mom/Baby it's nice because most people are excited to be there. They are at the hospital for a good reason. Other floors- not so much! I got pulled to TCC a few weeks ago, and I didn't like it AT ALL! TCC stands for Transitional Care Center. Basically, it's where older people go when they don't need constant care like ICU or Med/Surg, but aren't ready to go home. (Sometimes, they'll go to a nursing home like my mom did when she had her hip replacement). That particular night it was full of geriatric patients, and I'm just really not comfortable taking care of old people! But here at PEDS it's totally different. I love it! The kids are so cute! It's hard to see the kids so sick, but it's a really great feeling when you make a child, that you know doesn't feel good, smile. It's so rewarding! Jan has talked about having some mom/baby PCT's orient to the PEDS floor too, and I think it's a great idea. I would love to!

We've got a couple of kids here tonight with the flu. It's so sad! The kids are so miserable! It's amazing how strong kids are though. One little girl in particular- she's six ( and she's here with her 3 year old sister, who's also sick!) she's coughing and throwing up and has a fever and to top it all off, she's got juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. When I first went in tonight, she just looked so miserable. I sat and talked with her for a little while, and we kinda played a little bit. After a few minutes I had her smiling and laughing, and I was just amazed! It really just amazes me how strong these kids are! I haven't seen her or her sister cry at all tonight. And it's been so fun to take care of them.

Really, it's such a blessing that I love my job. I like to think of it as a tender mercy from the Lord. As if He were saying "Chelle, I know you don't want to work, but since you have to at this point in your life, I'm going to make it as enjoyable as possible."

What a blessing!

My immune system is BROKEN!!!

So, basically, my immune system is broken. I get pretty much everything I'm exposed to. This is what my month was like- about a month ago I started feeling really crappy, and after the dr. then the urgent care (who sent me to the ER. surprise, surprise.) They said I had the flu (didn't specify if it was regular or H1N1) so basically I was really sick for about 2 weeks, and I missed a bunch of work. Then, just as I was able to start going back to work, I got a small cough. It wasn't a super big deal, so I didn't worry about it. Then one night, I was at work, and I started having weird cloudy spots on my eyes. Turns out, I had pink eye! So I got sent home from work. Then, just as I was getting over the pink eye (still had the irritating cough mind you) I got super sick. Went back to the dr, and lo and behold I had the flu. Again. My dr said that the CDC is estimating that 95% of the influenza cases are H1N1. So, finally I got better from that, but I still have this stupid cough! So, I can say I've had swine flu twice. The second time was AWFUL!! I was so incredibly sick. I've never been so sick, even through all my heart stuff and everything- I've NEVER been so sick. So yeah- I'm done with that.I really am done with that.

At least none of my family got sick. I was pretty proud of that- I had pink eye, and swine flu, and didn't give it to my hubby or my kids!! My hands got a little dry from all the sanitizer though.

Things are going pretty well here. Steve's job is still the same. We'd really love to get a new one, but that may not happen anytime soon. Jenni is loving school. I had to keep her home a couple of days when I had pink eye, and she was SO sad. Joe joe talks so much lately. He is jenni's shadow when she's home. We're so lucky to have two kids that are so good together.

Well, being so sick this month left my house a disaster area, so I've got to go do some damage control! Have a wonderful day all!

Back at work . . . .

I'm back at work and guess what . . . . I can take my computer to work again!!! YAY!!! :) I'm super excited about this! My department manager decided that it was ok for us to bring our computers as long as it doesn't interfere with our work. (Originally they asked us to stop bring them to work because some people would play on their computers instead of working, so they told us NO MORE! But it didn't really work because the people that were the problem before never really stopped being the problem. They still brought their computers to work and still played instead of working. so now we can bring our computers to work again. I don't think it ever even phased them!! oh well!)

I've been a horrible blogger lately! I've been so busy! I've been picking up a bunch of extra shifts at work, and there was the whole issue of we thought we were going to move all of a sudden, but that didn't happen. (But we thought for a couple of weeks that we were moving, so we started doing all the planning and looking for an apartment and such. That kept us pretty busy) anyway, we also went to Vegas for a few days. Just the two of us- Steve and I. It was SO much fun!! It was like we were engaged again! He did all the cute 'date' things like opening doors for me and stuff. (He still does that when we're home, but usually you have kids and stuff around so its just not the same!) It was so nice to have a few days together. It felt all too short, but to long at the same time! I loved the vacation time, but I so missed the kids. Steve and I decided that we need to be rich enough to bring a nanny along, and the nanny's friend. That way we could have our super fun time with the kids, but we'd also be able to go out when we wanted. But we wouldn't want the nanny to be just bored so that's why we would want her to bring a friend. **sigh** someday! It's gonna happen, I have faith!

ok, well, time for me to do some work. (I have been working in between writing, I'm totally not the type to slack off at work!)

bye all!! I'll try to not make it so long in between posts next time!

k, thats all! :)