I talked with the lady who runs the hospice volunteer training yesterday ~ there will be another 2 day class in January, and she already has me signed up for it.
YAY!!!!
She appreciated that I didn't go with my snotty nose and sniffuldy snuffles... :-)
Can we just start this week all over again??? (though I'll keep Tuesday)
Monday I develop yet another small but annoying post-op problem...
Tuesday, I see my surgeon (an already scheduled follow-up visit) and get the OK to go back to work...
YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
This morning we go in to work out... I go to get on the treadmill ~ not really paying attention ~ and I get on one that's already moving! You can imagine what ensued...
Spent 4 hours in ER; thoroughly irradiated (3 of wrist, 4 of knee, 2 of shoulder, 2 of lower thoracic spine) and CT'd (upper thoracic spine)
And now here I sit with a hard splint on my left wrist (sprained, and with a possibly unseen hairline fracture), a left knee rigid brace (sprained; and the body part that took most of my weight), contused ribs; sore all over... Eating ibuprofen, with Percocet at the ready...
They asked me what I wanted for pain ~ I said Dilaudid because I did great with it as a PCA post-op. They gave it IM ~ WOW!! In half an hour, I'm loopy, then hot-flashing like you wouldn't believe, then asleep with some wild dreams, then nauseated as all get out! And let me tell you ~ SL Zofran is worthless! But at least the D. DID help with the pain.
Crap, I say. Crap. This has just been an all-around crappy autumn. I'll be glad when it is Solstice!!
'night
Well, poopy-farts!!! I had to bale out of the hospice vol. training today. Horrible night last night with much coughing, sneezing, snotty nose.. I couldn't sleep till after 0330! So I thought it best I not go sit in a room full of people...
I've called the lady in charge and left abject apologies on her machine ~ I feel so bad about having to bow out!
I have NO idea how often they put on these classes; hopefully there will be another one soonish.
Poop.
The A**hole who refused to marry an interracial couple has resigned!! Now they just need to revoke his license, and sign his scraggy ass up for anti-bigotry classes and tons of hours of community service!!
No, I don't need it ~ but I am going to work with it!
As some of you know, I've always been good at dealing with 'death & dying' situations as an ICU nurse. And that I've always thought I'd be good working in some type of hospice situation.
Well, on Monday, an ad in our local paper jumped out at me and slapped me upside the head! It was a full page thing all about the biggest Hospice agency in town (it's connected to the hospital where I had my surgery), and at the bottom of it was a bit about a 2 day Volunteer Training session they were having Nov. 9 & 10. I've heard nothing but wonderful things about this agency ever since we've been here.
Clever me decided that this was a call from the universe for me, so signed up I am! (pardon the Yoda - ism!)
When I got to talking with the co-ordinator of the program, she seemed excited by the fact that I was an RN, with lots of D&D experience... seems there aren't a lot of nurses who sign up, though there is one other one in this session. I did let her know about my back, and she doesn't think it will be a problem.
I'm very excited; I can't wait to hear what they've got to say ~ and who knows where it might lead... this agency is also going to be opening up Hospice residence here in town within the next year or so; having a foot in the door can't hurt!!
So ~ YaY for me!! (you may do a cartwheel or two for me, if you like!)
