Glorious

I should explain what I do "for a living".

You might think that my dear husband has the more exciting job flying around the world-- to super exciting places-- like North Dakota. His job has it's perks indeed, but I can't say mine is dull.

I have been a RN for nearly 4 years now and I have already worked in quite a few different fields of nursing. (I have often worked 2 jobs at once as I am doing now).  For the last 2 years I have worked at a very large and wonderful children's hospital in Arizona, working graveyard shifts mostly.

What do my nights entail? Well, tonight I got to scoop poop out of a diaper... with a spoon... into a cup.  It's moments like this that I wonder what my life has come to and how I managed to get myself into these things. Not much later I was drawing blood off a beautiful IV. I got my perfect little sample and was placing it into the 5 tubes I needed and somehow managed to send blood flying and squirted it ALL OVER the wall. Fortunately I was able to clean up my little crime scene before my patient and his mother woke up and saw the disaster.

Crap... I couldn't make it through this blog post because I was falling asleep looking at the computer screen. Did I mention that I work graveyard shifts?

Graveyards are something special, let me tell you. Things that wouldn't normally be funny can have you laughing on the floor. One of my very favorite nurse colleagues was barking at me last night. And no, I no longer work in psych.

Although I hate what staying up all night does to my body, I have come to love graveyards in many ways. I love the people I work with. It really is a different type of people who work nights.

We spend our nights running around like crazy people from room to room as one kid will be throwing up while another is being transferred to the PICU or sitting around laughing at stupid YouTube videos for hours. You just never know what you are going to get. I guess that's what keeps things interesting.