What a week

What a long and busy week.
This week I was scheduled to work at a draw station alone. This station sees about 40-60 patients a day. They mostly arrive early in the morning. When I first open the doors I usually have 4-8 patients waiting to be let in. Then for the first hour I will have 10 more patients arrive. After the first 2 hours new patients start to taper off giving me time to separate and transfer plasma and serum to their proper containers for shipping before noon. After lunch I see a lot less patients. There will be 10-15 more patients that come through. On monday when I arrived at work I was expecting about 5 patients in line. When i opened up the door to let them in, there were 10 patients which I was not ready for. The rest of the day was non-stop. Even after lunch when things generally slow down patients kept coming in. It would have been a decent day despite the volume of patients except that the computer kept crashing. With the computer crashing it slowed me down a lot.
Tuesday was better I only had 35 patients for the day. However it was rough because I woke up in a sour mood. I blame it on not having a good nights rest and bad dreams.
Wednesday went ok. It was a busy day. When I got home heather and I had a glass of wine with our dinner and went to bed about 8:30.
When I woke up Thursday I had the worst sinus headache. My nose felt stuffy, my ears were ringing, my sinuses were throbing in pain, and to top it off I had a dehydration headache. Not a good start to the day! I took a hot shower to help relieve some of the pain on my sinuses and drank a few glasses of water to alleviate my headache. My effort did pay off a bit but by the time I got to work my head was pounding again. Of course work was busy!! It started off mellow but as time went forward the waiting room kept filling up. By the end of the day I had seen 52 patients. My headache had lessened but I was left with a dull stuffy feeling in my sinuses and head. After work I went straight home and relaxed as best I could. I made myself a salad and vegged in front of the tv.
Today, Friday I am feeling much better! I had a good night sleep and pleasant dreams. I woke up at 4 ready to start my day but decided to sleep another 30 minutes. Work was really busy in the morning. I had 16 patients sign in the first hour. (9 before i opened the door.)Since I was feeling good I was able to get them in and out of the office in less the 35 minutes! I think that was my quickest time ever!
Aside from the good day today it was a long rough week.
I started some creative writing today before I started work. I have been wanting to film a short sketch but haven't been able to come up with anything. So today, I finally found a subject to write about. Right now I have just been writing down what the scene is and the back ground of my main characters. I think once I know who I'm writing about then the characters lines will be easier to write.
Tonight I plan on going for a bike ride with Heather. Maybe stop at starbucks for tea then relax at home with a glass of wine. Have a great weekend everyone!
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