Late night at the clinic, catching up on paperwork. How's everybody doing?

[Aristus]

Rough couple of days...

[RiffRandell]

1. I'm alright.

Been in kind of a funk but it's wearing off. You?

[Aristus]

3. Mine's not wearing off.

I think I'm getting burned out. I hate that. I not only love what I do, I love loving what I do, if you know what I mean.

But I'm just exhausted...

Thanks for listening to me complain...

Good to see you!...

[nolabear]

2. Sick as a dog. But it's just a cold.

Incredible how lousy something so relatively benign is. I'm missing work though, and since I'm self employed it's costly.

Sorry you've been beleaguered.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Aristus!

I'm sorry you're having some rough days...I hope you'll be in a better place soon.

Just got home from the store...it feels good to sit down!

I've got a pinched nerve in my lumbar spine, and the PT is HELPING! The people are terrific and nice which always helps.

[a la izquierda]

5. I believe I'm on the verge of strep throat...

Or a nasty, changing-of-weather cold. Just in time for a crap ton of grading.
Luckily, university students love spontaneous days off. They may get one off tomorrow.

[In_The_Wind]

6. It's too early in the week to complain.

I slept 10 hours last night.

Napped for 2 hours after supper tonight. It feels like I'll be back to hugging my pillows again soon.

What's been going on with you ?

[Aristus]

12. Whew!

Want to trade places?...

[In_The_Wind]

13. Yes!

At this rate I'll be the next rip van winkle ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Aristus]

14. Okay.

Scootch over and stop stealing the covers...

[Crewleader]

7. Sorry to hear of the rough couple of days Aristus

I got Red Sox Fever....I'll be cured when they win, hopefully Game 6!

[Ptah]

8. I hope you find respite soon, Aristus

[Kaleva]

9. The ex is taking care of an elderly man who is near death.

He signed some papers today and his pacemaker was shut down. It's just a matter of time now.

[nolabear]

10. Did you read Stephen King's "Dr. Sleep"?

Not a terribly scary book as his go, but it takes up Danny Torrance (the little boy in The Shining) years later, when he works and uses his shine at a hospice, helping people on their way. That part of the book (and it's not a spoiler) is really very sweet. King's getting philosophical in his somewhat older years.

[Kaleva]

11. The ex has texted me that she is very nervous and scared.

She was hired as a caretaker but the man was much more ill then thought (bad heart). The man is still at home and he wants her to stay in his room with him for the night because he says her presence gives him comfort. She also told me that she has spent much of the evening so far just talking with him and holding and rubbing his hands.

He's a WWII vet, been married 70 years, has traveled the world and raised a large family.

I'm sort of at a loss for words right now. I've never met the man myself but the ex sent me a pic of him and his wife. Even though I don't know him, I've been told much about him and his family and I feel quite sad right now. He's lived a long and productive life and his time is almost up.

Edit: The ex also has told me that although she is nervous and even a bit scared, she wants to stay with him till the end as she herself gotten very attached to him, his wife and his family.

[nolabear]

16. She sounds like just the right person.

I hope passes easy and she knows what a good thing she's doing. Sacred.

[madinmaryland]

15. OK. My wife is finally coming home from the hospital

after two weeks between OSU Med Center and the rehab facility here. She's one tough woman, after getting banged up in a nasty accident in Columbus, OH.

[In_The_Wind]

17. OMG

I had no idea.

[magical thyme]

18. my most recent day at the hospital was a nightmare

The hospital info system had been down for 7 hours when I arrived for 2nd shift, so the entire day's outpatient labs were piled up waiting to be done. We had a youngish person arrived in the ED coding with heartbeat but no pulse. I showed up in time to find the manager and a tech standing over 5 sets of ABG reports, 3 of them off the main analyzer and 2 of them off the backup because the 1st 3 had error flags all over them insisting it was venous instead of arterial blood. None of the results were compatible with life. 2 hours later the resp tech brought a post-vent specimen with a teeny improvement, but still not compatible with life. They never came back to run any other tests, so I suspect it didn't end well for the patient.

It took me until 9pm or so of nonstop running to finally get everything caught up.

[Aristus]

19. Sounds like a tough shift.

I wasn't facing any life-or-death cases like that.

It was just hectic, that's all...

(I kind of feel like a heel now for complaining... )