Emergencies!

Every morning I tell myself that today I would make an entry in my blog, but by the end of the day nothing has happened. Well, actually nothing on the blog, but in real life so much have been going on that just took priority over me writing ...

For the past 2 weeks I have been doing mega shifts at the hospitals in and around Cape Town. I have now actually asked some hospitals to remove my name from their databank as a locum nurse, as I either live to far from them, or (well, I did not tell them this) I just do not want to work for them! Currently I work in 2 trauma units and our Convention centre. The hospitals is fun - busy as hell but good in a weird kinda way. the centre is dead boring, but the biggest draw point is their access to internet. So my days at the centre is spent browsing sites dealing with glass.

I was under the impression that Saturday and Sunday was going to be easy-peasy in a small trauma unit - not! I had one staff nurse to help me, a unit that I have only worked in once before, and a doctor with round hands. God, the days of nursing slaves is long gone and banned!

On Sunday the hospital matron tried to force me to go and work in ICU nursing a little prem baby. I refused. I was so tired from the previous day and the days before that working long shifts and trying to fit in a couple of hours at the torch, that I just did not feel competent enough taking charge of a tiny life. Instead I choose a chaotic day of non-stop drama with really sick people and emergencies. At 17:00 I got my second breath and skipped and jumped through the madness till 19:00 when I could go home.

Tomorrow is a big day on my calender. I have a meeting with an organization that help to promote art and craft in Cape Town, and all my work is done. All I need to do tomorrow is a last bit of cleaning and packing. Oh, and I need to get a photo taken of myself ...

The pics is some of the work that I have done in the weeks gone by. I will take photos of all the new stuff in the next day or 3 ...