Having a random night shift in the middle of weeks of day shifts is a bit hard to adjust to. However, it still allows you to have somewhat of a weekend, which was kind of nice.
When I went in to work, there weren't any laboring patients, so I had it pretty easy. I saw quite a few patients in triage and sent most of them home. Despite the fact that it wasn't very busy, the time really flew by and I had some great med students helping me out. When I got home, I fell asleep almost instantly and woke up with no low back pain or hip pain. I was pumped. Yesterday was the first time I'd woken up without back pain and I was a little worried it would be a one time deal. But, nope. So, that seals it - I'm definitely heading back to the chiropractor this week.
After waking up, I hurriedly put some things together to head to my friend Monica's place. She was having some people over to hang out and go swim in the lake she lives on. It was just what I needed - hanging out with some non-medical people, eating some not so healthy food (read: pizza and brownies) and spending time in the sun relaxing.
Now I'm home and cleaning up a bit so that I can start my last week of OB off on the right foot. Tomorrow will also be a fasting day, so I'm taking a look at what my meals will be now so that I don't go too far astray from my goals. Tomorrow is also my hardest day of the week because I run the board and triage all afternoon by myself, meaning I'm responsible for all of the patients in labor. It's a lot of responsibility and I'm still pretty darn slow. But I'm usually too busy to think about being hungry.
Tomorrow the other interns and I are planning on doing some anatomy review and so I'll either hit the gym late or not at all. We'll see how I'm feeling. Anywho, I didn't take any photos today - sorry about that!
What's your favorite summer activity? I definitely love to be outdoors swimming in a pool or on the beach!
Showing posts with label night shift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night shift. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Night shift = blech
Dude. Nights are rough. Not because of what happens during nights, but because changing your sleep schedule by like 12 hours in one day is not fucking easy. Come 4:00 a.m., I'm super close to falling asleep standing up. Then I just start yawning like it's my job. And then I hope the attendings take pity on me and send me home. That kind of worked for me today. I got sent home at 6:30.
The other thing that's hard about nights is eating. What the fuck do you eat at midnight? Like it's definitely not breakfast time. But it's midnight so lunch feels weird. Most meals I've had at midnight include a lot of grease. And then when you wake up after sleeping after your night shift, what do you eat? Cuz it's mid-afternoon, so breakfast seems weird. But then it's your first meal of the day, so breakfast seems right. Fuck it. I only have two more night shifts this week. I'm just going to do what I want. These are my problems, folks. I realize they're not legitimate problems. Just humor me.
Yesterday, since I didn't make the switch like I tried, I woke up and went to yoga with my all-time favorite yoga instructor, Daniel. He only teaches Mondays 11:30 to 12:30, so I legitimately can never go. And I almost didn't go yesterday, but man, am I glad I went. My hamstrings got all stretched out and my plank...well, I tried. It was just a great workout and I felt awesome after.
Once home, I had some protein (because for me, yoga is strength training) and then made some lunch and headed to get some titers drawn. After getting some wrong information from the people at employee's health, I had to take a considerably longer bike ride to occupational health and wait FOREVER and finally got the titers I needed. I also had to bike up the big ass hill that's downtown. It was a struggle. And probably a good work out...?
Then I napped and headed to work. Work was work. One of the attendings who works until midnight was a great teacher. The one who works midnight to 8 - not so into teaching. Boo. But then I got to leave early and head to bed!
I woke up around 1:30, ate some breakfast, and ordered some new shoes (the ones I legitimately wear everyday are so old (like 7 years) and they just can't do it anymore). I hydrated as much as possible before hitting up the gym for strength training. It was a great day of strength training because it was beautiful outside (and the gym is like all windows), because it wasn't crowded at all, and because I added quite a few reps and weights from when I first started. So, boo yeah.
And now I'm going to study before heading to work.
Today's positive (that I keep forgetting about): Yesterday, I finally pumped up my bike tires and took her out for a spin rather than driving. Saved some gas and got a bit more exercise. Win, win, win.
And here are the photos that y'all really want:
See y'all tomorrow!
The other thing that's hard about nights is eating. What the fuck do you eat at midnight? Like it's definitely not breakfast time. But it's midnight so lunch feels weird. Most meals I've had at midnight include a lot of grease. And then when you wake up after sleeping after your night shift, what do you eat? Cuz it's mid-afternoon, so breakfast seems weird. But then it's your first meal of the day, so breakfast seems right. Fuck it. I only have two more night shifts this week. I'm just going to do what I want. These are my problems, folks. I realize they're not legitimate problems. Just humor me.
Yesterday, since I didn't make the switch like I tried, I woke up and went to yoga with my all-time favorite yoga instructor, Daniel. He only teaches Mondays 11:30 to 12:30, so I legitimately can never go. And I almost didn't go yesterday, but man, am I glad I went. My hamstrings got all stretched out and my plank...well, I tried. It was just a great workout and I felt awesome after.
Once home, I had some protein (because for me, yoga is strength training) and then made some lunch and headed to get some titers drawn. After getting some wrong information from the people at employee's health, I had to take a considerably longer bike ride to occupational health and wait FOREVER and finally got the titers I needed. I also had to bike up the big ass hill that's downtown. It was a struggle. And probably a good work out...?
Then I napped and headed to work. Work was work. One of the attendings who works until midnight was a great teacher. The one who works midnight to 8 - not so into teaching. Boo. But then I got to leave early and head to bed!
I woke up around 1:30, ate some breakfast, and ordered some new shoes (the ones I legitimately wear everyday are so old (like 7 years) and they just can't do it anymore). I hydrated as much as possible before hitting up the gym for strength training. It was a great day of strength training because it was beautiful outside (and the gym is like all windows), because it wasn't crowded at all, and because I added quite a few reps and weights from when I first started. So, boo yeah.
And now I'm going to study before heading to work.
Today's positive (that I keep forgetting about): Yesterday, I finally pumped up my bike tires and took her out for a spin rather than driving. Saved some gas and got a bit more exercise. Win, win, win.
And here are the photos that y'all really want:
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| Monday's breakfast |
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| Hydrating with some crystal light |
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| Protein smoothie post-yoga |
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| Epic sandwich fixings |
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| Monday's lunch |
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| My bike |
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| What I was expecting to be one meal for overnight (I didn't end up eating it) |
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| Dinner before my night shift |
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| Salad I packed while dinner was cooling |
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| Monday's dinner |
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| More fruit that I didn't actually eat overnight |
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| Tuesday's pre-gym breakfast |
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| Post-strength training protein |
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| Cheese snack |
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