Happy Easter

Today is Easter Sunday, and none of us went to church. I dont think I have missed church at Easter ever before, excepting if I was working. At least my excuse was that I worked last night. Not sure what mom and dads was! Had a fairly good weekend so far. Thursday was bad at work again, but not nearly as bad as Wednesday, so that is at least something!
On Friday I woke up late, and then had a very relaxing day, writing letters, and sorting stuff out. I was supposed to make some cards, but never got around to it. I did manage to do all of Brendas chores like the hamster and budgie cage. After the state of the hamster cage I have decided she had better buy me a big present in Mauritius. I phoned Brenda in the afternoon and she seemed to be having quite a good time. They went to Gold Reef City on Thursday and she says she went on the Anaconda and hurt her neck. She said she didnt really like all the rides as they were too scary!
Yesterday she phoned me at 5:30 to say that she was on her way to the airport. They flew out at 0900 and that was the last I heard from her. I am a bit annoyed at Dayle as they promised they would phone when they got there, and they havent. So really I have no idea if they are in Mauritius or in the bottom of the Indian Ocean. I guess we would have heard if there was a crash though. In the morning I went to the Essenwood Market with Gill, Darryl and Megan and Jonathan. Didnt land up spending too long there as the weather wasnt great. After that I went and collected my cell-phone. The sad part is that it is still not working properly and I ended up taking it back today. I came home and slept for a bit and then went to work last night. It was just Busi, Marlene and I but we had a good night. Still got 2 of the terrible parents, but I have great hope that they will go home today, so tomorrow should be okay.
This morning I slept for a bit, and then got up and went to the mall. I went to lunch at Maxis with the folks, and then ended up spending way too much in the scrapbook shop! When I came home I finished Marlenes one card, then started my next scrapbook page, and finished Brendas B. Now I am waiting for the glue to dry before I finish my page.
I am feeling a little bad because I havent got Brenda and easter eggs. I hope that Dayle got her some. I just thought that I will not be with her until a week after Easter, and she will be having so much fun in Mauritius so what is the point? I did get her an Easter biscuit making kit, so that may be a consolation.
Not looking forward to work this week. I guess it can only get better. We have got a ward meeting on Tuesday and that should be interesting to see what debbie has to say. I know that I have got a few things to talk about. I think Debbie has planned it badly as it is her first day back after nearly 2 weeks off the ward. I am sure she, Gill and Viloshni have all got loads of things to sort out, as well as the fact that so far there is no second sister, which means that I cant reeally go to the meeting anyway. Hopefully we wont have too many patients though.

Work again

The day started off with 25 patients and of those 8 were day cases, and ended off with 5 admissions in the last 90 minutes. As you can see, not a great day! had lots of drams with beds too, which made things very tense. The other thing was that Debbie has just taked the rest of the week off. I wish I was a UM and could just take days off as and when i feel like it. I am so sick of the shit in that ward.
Had a nice dinner with Ilse last night, went to our usual the Brick Cellar. Hope to see her again in the next few weeks too. I also phoned Brenda again, she is at Seans house with Dayle, and seems to be having a good time. I miss her so much. It isnot so bad in the daytime when I am busy but at night it is really bad. I guess at least she is having fun. Dad posted a parcel to Robyn and her kids today. I hope she gets it! And that it doesnt take too long. The only other news is that apparently Vivian had his appendix out!

Tuesday

Last night I worked overtime. The great thing was that the staff nurse who was supposed to work with us came on duty only to tell us that she had chicken pox and needed to go home. Apparently she has had the spots for 2 days. Why she didnt phone in sick I dont know. Which of course meant that we were short staffed. I wish people would think of their colleagues. I mean if she knew she was sick, why didnt she see the doctor in the beginning and then book off sick in the morning, so we could at least have organised staff. Anyway, at lest we managed to get some help from medical ward a bit later. Have got really irritating parents at the moment. Hope they are discharged sometime soon, but I dont think so.
I came home and slept until about 1:30pm. Since then I have been up to the shops to get an outfit to send to RObyn for her baby, and a couple of other things. Tonight I am going to dinner with Ilse.
I phoned Brenda this afternoon. She seems to be having a good time. She is at home with Beauty today. Yesterday she went to Ravellas house, and tomorrow she is going out with Sean. So she has been quite busy. Dayle has been working. I asked her if she has taken any photos and she said no, but she will. They leave for Mauritius on Saturday.

Sunday

Well, today was a much better day. Probably because none of the bosses are there lol. Had a quietish day, but in the afternoon was just Razia, Nonhlanhla and I so we were quite busy. I phoned Brenda this evening and she seems to be having a good time. They went to the Cape Town Fish Market for supper and she told me that Storms favourite sushi is crab salad! I am missing her lots, but looking forward to my first lie in for ages tomorrow morning!

Stocktake

If I ever decide to work on stocktake again, please shoot me! I am so sick of it, being shouted at unnecessarily. First of all when I got up I had to say goodbye to Brenda. So I guess I was a bit stressed to start off. Then when i arrived I wanted to start taking stock out the cupboards for the morning. Viloshnie said it wont be necessary as they are not closing the cupboards. So we left it. Then Gill arrived, and said that no they would be closing the cupboards, but that we wouldnt have to keep going down to pharmacy, and we dont need to take anything out the cupboard. Then Debbie arrived and shouted at me when I wanted to get IV fluids out as she said that we must go down to pharmacy if we want anything! The three of them then proceeded to have a huge fight as to what we must do, in the meantime where does that leave us? Then one of the mums started complaining about not being seen yet by Dr. Naranbhai. When yolande came up to see the mom she informed us that Pharmacy would be closing at 12! Well, thank you for informing us! then, pharmacy was supposed to reopen at 4pm, but they just locked up and went home! So of course we still had scripts sitting in the ward. And then of course they all just walked out the ward at 11am and left us to pick up the pieces. I am so sick of it. I guess I am just really feeling abused and unappreciated at the moment. I had a long chat later with Yolande and that really helped a lot. Anyway, I dont see anything changing in the near future, and I think it is only going to get worse. Evashnie is going to the opposite shift now, so that means that I will be working with session sisters again. That is of course if I am lucky as for the last 6 months I was often working on my own, which makes life very difficult when Debbie is not there.
Brenda came to see me to say goodbye, which of course made me feel even worse, I miss her so much already, I will be counting the days until I see her again. I know she is going to have a good time, though. I just hope she takes loads of photos.

Imax

Today was the day Brendas year went to the IMAX theatre to see Deep Sea. They seemed to enjoy it, but I think all the moms felt a bit shell shocked by the experience, lol. It was a great movie though, and I have resolved to take Brenda to the IMAX more often instead of the normal movies. It is much more interesting and educational. Next month they are showing Treasure Planet, so I will definitely try and take her there. Not that that is educational, though. Well, since I have last written on here there has been chaos in Durban. There was a rain and wind storm which blew half of Durban away, and the next Monday and Tuesday there were freak waves which washed the other half away! We havent been to the beach yet to see what has happened, but hope to go tomorrow. Brenda flies to Johburg on Saturday, and then to Mauritius next Friday. I am going to miss her so much, I am missing her already. Tomorrow is break up day, so at least I can spend some time with her. Was going to go to gym this afternoon, but we had a terrible rainstorm, so will go tomorrow.

Back

Well here I am again after quite a while. Things have been fine here. I had my interview with Brendas teacher yesterday. She said that Brenda is doing fine apart from her spelling and her handwriting. The OT also phones and basically she suggested stopping the OT and starting remedial classes for a while. The teacher agreed with her. The only problem is that the OT is covered by medical aid, and that wont be, so who knows where that money is coming from.
Work has been busy and once again staffing is bad. We were supposed to open our high care, but now they have said that it is not a high care, but an observation ward. Basically because they are too stingy to staff it as a high care. The problem is that they havent bothered to officially inform the doctors about that. Which means that we are getting sick patients there who the doctors expect to be specialled, but we dont have any extra staff. I dont know what is going to happen.
As far as the diet goes it hasnt been going too well. But I have been quite good with gym and have gone on most of my days off. I went and saw Music and Lyrics with Sharon last week which was great, and have also joined a book club, so I have been keeping busy. That is all for now, but I hope to be back soon.