When I Ruled The World

Today was actually a good day! Benji woke up around 6, but I gave him a bottle and he went back to sleep. We both slept in until about 8:30 a.m. So nice! He was very cute this morning, too. I hope he was good for Lexy . . . I don't know how that went. Anyway, I was a little worried about my lunch assignments. When I start work at 11 a.m., the charge nurse usually gives me three different assignments, so I get to scrub three different rooms. It definitely keeps me on my toes. Today I had an Endo AAA, a laparoscopic kidney donor, and I thought I'd have to do a Perc. Neph. I'm not particularly comfortable doing any of those, but it turned out well. The AAA took so long to get going that all I had to do was turn over the room and set up the back table. In the kidney room, I just helped finish the surgery, and luckily the perc. neph. was done when I got there, so I did a cysto stent removal. Easy enough. (I know this means nothing to many of you who read this, but this is my life! Sorry!). Lunch in the cafeteria was disappointing, but I have had worse. At 3 p.m., I did an abdominal hysterectomy (where we took out a dermoid cyst the size of a large grapefruit), then I got to eat dinner and crochet for a bit. I got to send Marvin home a bit early as I finished the second AAA (happy Veteran's day, Marvin! You rock!), then I finished a free-flap with Chen, did a lap hernia repair, and I finished up with a diagnostic lap with Burgett. All of the surgeons I worked with were friendly, I was pleasantly busy most of the day, and I got to suture. I'm grateful for these nice days. I'd much rather be busy than sitting around all day or stuck in a crazy, bloody case. Good times. I really need to clean house tomorrow. Apparently I'm babysitting for Mrs. X in the morning--at least she slipped a note under the door to ask! I haven't watched Becca in about a month, and it hasn't broken my heart. We have kind-of been avoiding each other; I think we're all just biding our time. Of course, they want us to stay until they sell the house (which will probably be a while in this market!), but I really hate living in limbo like this. How long will we be staying? Where will we move to? My apartment hunting is half-hearted, but I'm still doing it. Oh well. We'll figure it out eventually, I guess.