Friday, August 05, 2005

ho hum

Well, I did my first night of call at prov milwaukie. It felt busier than up at Doernbecher but I think that's only because I was also trying to do my clinic notes in between the 3 admits. I went to bed at 3 am, was paged at 4:30, and then woke up at 6:30 though I probably could have slept until 6:45 since I guess we don't do intern-intern and senior-senior sign-out. Not like it mattered since I had to stay until 8:30 for a meeting with the PR person to learn about health literacy and rewriting a handout for patients. Thankfully it only lasted 30 minutes cause I was really tired.

Sundowning is an interesting thing. The first patient we had either was at baseline for dementia or was sundowning on top of it. Anyway, when I asked if she hit her head when she fell, she said she didn't remember but that she wish she did. When I asked her why, she replied, "so I wouldn't have to keep answering all these dumb questions." Point taken. It made me laugh inside though.

time to eat.

2 comments:

- r said...

Ha ha ha! I'll have to remember that when people start asking me a lot of questions I don't want to answer.

What are your plans for this upcoming weekend - when do you go home? Isn't it next week (???). If not, maybe you want to come over for lunch on one of the weekends... invitation still stands after you get back from vacation.

Let me know and hope your week goes well... R.

PS: Remus is starting to talk!!! Mama, Papa, Mum-Mum (food), Uh oh, and BALL (that one's not new - everything is a BA...).

- r said...

Ha ha ha! I'll have to remember that when people start asking me a lot of questions I don't want to answer.

What are your plans for this upcoming weekend - when do you go home? Isn't it next week (???). If not, maybe you want to come over for lunch on one of the weekends... invitation still stands after you get back from vacation.

Let me know and hope your week goes well... R.

PS: Remus is starting to talk!!! Mama, Papa, Mum-Mum (food), Uh oh, and BALL (that one's not new - everything is a BA...).