Survived first call

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My hubby took himself and the baby to my parents house for dinner. Luke decided to get up extra early, but sounds like they both did well.

He took the baby to daycare today and went to work out. Our anniversary is coming up so he got me flowers and picked me up from the hospital. We stopped for thai on the way home and I ate for the first time in at least 18 hours. It is so easy to forget to eat when you are running around the hospital.

My patients were interesting. I forgot how much I like being on call. I may hate it later, but for the next 4 weeks some upper levels take cross cover. So, I am just on the beginning of a very steep learning curve. It seems like my resident is constantly cleaning up after me. I look forward to the day when I can do it all myself, but I really appreciate the support right now. It is very strange to be called Dr. and introduce myself as Dr. Last Name. Right now I don't mind the pages I get on my night off. Unfortunately there is not much I can do to help from home except tell them to call the on-call resident. I don't know the pager number, sorry. Amazingly the pager operator does. How this all comes to be, I have no idea. I guess it is just one of those things I'll figure out someday.

Oh, and the paperwork is astounding. There is a form for everything. I realized after I woke up from my post-call nap I had forgotten one of the discharge forms. Somehow the patient got discharged anyway. Maybe it was just another thing my resident had to do that I forgot. Only time will tell. But I hope it gets better.

My service includes: Guillan-Barre with Respiratory Failure, Sepsis with Multiorgan Failure, ITP with probable antiphospholipid syndrome, DKA, w/u for Shortness of Breath (new diagnosis emphysema), and Abscess with MRSA bacteremia resolved awaiting SNF placement.