Current mood:

exhausted

Adventures In Nursing :: A Day In My Shoes

What I'm perceived to be when people see me and I tell them I'm a nurse.

No no no. Down, boy. Bad boy. Don't make me show you what I can do at work.

It's not pretty and I'm sure you won't enjoy it at all.

God, my feet hurt. I think it's time for new work shoes. I've been wearing the same pair of Dansko clogs for .... hm ... oh wow. It's been almost 3 years now. WHAT THE HELL?! Has it been that long?! Good God...where did all the time go? So yeah. Definitely time for new shoes, man. I noticed this problem because my shoes are scuffed to hell and back from kicking/running into apparently just about anything and everything. I'm a graceful butterfly. Oh yeah.

I'm thinking of investing in a good pair of walking shoes but here's the problem I face. Due to the nature of my work, where I work and what I do when I'm at work, I tend to look like I just emerged victorious from a very long, drawn out and bloody battle in which I massacred an entire village. It took me about 2 hours to do a dressing change today in the ICU because iMama and I painted the town red on my patient. We dug out every single stable from my patient and when we were done, I swear you can make a 6 pack of soda out of all the metal from the liberated staples.

Would it be weird if I said I actually like doing this? Sounds sick, I know....but I love it. I'm also really good at it. Hey, man. Practice makes perfect. Haa haa haa! It takes a special person who works where I do. I say "special" because "sick and demented" just doesn't sound nice at all. We're the ones who aren't grossed out by anything, like to peel sunburns, pop zits and find all things enGROSSing. :D

So now my patient has no more staples remaining. I know because I felt really carefully. I get paid to feel people up in a non skebe way. Btw, that means "perverted" in Japanese. That's Ham Sup to all you people who speak Cantonese. Sorry, I don't know how to say it in Mandarin which is really weird because that's my first language. I also don't know how to say it in Korean because ...well....I'm not Korean no matter how much people seem to think I am.

What was I saying? Oh yeah. So after I emerged victorious with iMama from the epic battle of a dressing change, the sleeves and front of my waterproof gown was more or less covered with blood. I looked like a butcher. Hm. Not a very good mental image of me but whatever. So. Given that work oftentimes requires me to be covered in bodily fluids, I am rather concerned about wearing anything but clogs. Must think about this some more.
One of our long time peoples finally left HomeBase. He's cool as hell and super funny...but I get the weirdest feeling like his brothers are hitting on us. I don't know if they're just really friendly but they both liked to either invade my personal space or tell me how pretty I am. I'm flattered.....but also a wee bit disturbed. One of them wants to practice his Mandarin with me. Um....no. And then he wants to work on learning Japanese too. Uh....no. Besides, my Japanese sucks now. And even if it didn't....yeah, no. They want photos of me and I didn't know what to say except "Ha ha, I gotta go".