Some days do just not work out the way you want them to!

Well, I tried to go to the gym yesterday after work....but, since I left work at 11:30 pm....let's see...6:30 am until 11:30 pm.    That is a lot of hours...well, I am on the salary plan, so does not matter.  But, the YMCA does not have midnight hours.  One of those days.  I hate Mondays anyway.  Rounded with one of the attendings, and then had to round again with another one, who could not see her patients by herself.  By that time I was in the middle of trying to discharge patients and finish paperwork.  Then, I was in a great mood to have a meeting with my boss.  I tried to not have too much of a moan and groan session, but it seemed to come out that way....not just pleading the case for myself but some other coworkers that are having a hard balancing act as well.

Then, 8 admissions from the OR.  The residents were in the OR most of the day, so just more work for me there.  Dealing with sick patients, sepsis, esophageal leaks, hypotension, and sending a patient to the ICU, as well as about 50 pages and phone calls is a lot of juggling.

I knew when I could not heat up my acorn squash until 4:00 for lunch that things were not going to go in a timely fashion.  Plus the patients were scattered all over the place.  I did my best, but did not leave work until 11:45.  The patients were all stable.  I walked out to a winter wonderland, glistening snow from the lights walking up Crittenden Blvd. I felt tired but accomplished.   That is the monday of a nurse practitioner in a busy surgical thoracic practice....not for the whimpy worker, for sure.

To the YMCA!  Think I will try a water aerobics class.  I am still whipped, so probably not a mile in the pool, but something to energize me as well.

Lots of snow on the ground in Upstate NY.  It is pretty, but how many days until spring?