Saturday, October 11, 2008

Why are People so Inconsiderate??

I worked last night, walked this morning (yesterday morning) and got woke up by Workmen on the roof...not their fault, you cannot roof a house without noise. I knew census was down, and since I only had 3 hours sleep in 24 hours, I called and got put on-call. When I was verified on call at 6 pm I laid back down and was dead to the world. So 3 hours later I get called by night shift supervisor, who is talking on another phone trying to decide whether to bring me into work or not. The whole gist of the conversation was that I would have to sit on 4th floor the rest of the night for a sleep study, and because I was on-call rather than schedule it was gonna cost the hospital time and a half instead of regular salary. So they decide to put the test off for the patient for one day to schedule somebody so it will not be as expensive (for the hospital), then she hangs up the other line, and tells me never mind...go back to sleep. What the fuck...just go back to sleep??? As you see it is now 1:46 a.m. and what am I not doing....I'm not freaking sleeping. So I've had 6 hours sleep in 38 hours...how does that compute to actual REST???? Not sure, but that time between 6 pm and 9 pm was awsome! I would love to just go back to sleep, but it's not happening, and I'm on-call for 1 hr and 19 minutes more, then I can take some Benadryl or something.

So, since I'm awake...here is my most favorite birthday memory:

My 11th birthday. My grandma baked a special cake for me. She had been practicing and practicing this new receipt for a Lemon cake (I loved lemons...but not necessarily lemon cake). She baked me a beautiful yellow Lemon cake and decorated it with those sugar characters you used to be able to buy at the grocery store, I remember it was a cowgirl, Then the candles were held by little candies. The candies actually tasted really gross on a Lemon cake, but to me it was wonderful and I bragged and bragged on the cake. My Uncle Dan (who is no longer living) was in from Oklahoma City and he brought me a bracelet with poodle dogs and every poodle dog had a pink rhinestone tail (my birthstone color). My mom bought me a book "Alice in Wonderland", which I still have...and I actually wrote in the book that I got it for my birthday...in little girl cursive. That book survived my house fire, because I had it packed at my mom's still, so I have a 40 year old copy of "Alice in Wonderland", wonder what the "Antiques Roadshow" would auction that buddy off for? LOL. Anyway I've never forgotten my cake with the cowgirl or how much I appreciated that my grandma went to all that trouble just for me...her little tom-boy grand-daughter!

6 comments:

shrimplate said...

Thank you. That was wonderful. And happy birthday!

Older is better.

Debbie Y. said...

That would have had me steaming. I probably would have told the shift manager in charge of scheduling the sleep study nurse she owed me time and a half for the hours of sleep I lost. I can't stand it when I can't sleep. I have had a few problems in that area lately, but last night bedtime was heavenly I fell asleep immediately when my head hit the pillow and other than getting up a couple of times to use the water closet I slept very soundly. I love to sleep.

Reddirt Woman said...

Happy late birthday! Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the blogging world. It is fun to see what different people say when we write lak we tawk. Too much fun.

I'll be back...

Helen G.

Tiffany said...

You nurses must be made of some special no sleep stuff. I was barely alive after 21 hours up. LOL

Aleta said...

I'm so sorry that you didn't get a good night's sleep. That's horrible to have done that to you! (And I've often wondered about the people who do the sleep study. Greg had that done - he has sleep apnea.)

Hope you get a better night's sleep tonight and happy belated birthday!

Rick said...

If they needed to do a sleep study they should study you while you sleep. That way you'd get some rest and get paid for it at the same time.

Nice story - you remember a lot from that birthday, but then again, that wasn't so long ago - right?