Uniforms

I resisted it for over a year, but I am finally enjoying the benefits of wearing a uniform to work! I have been wearing scrubs more and more often and it is such a relief to wake up in the morning, just put on a brightly colored oversized shirt and drawstring pants, and go. The hospital I work at has been cracking down on "illegal" employee parking so now we have to park in the furthest reaches of the parking lot, 4 or 5 floors up in the parking garage. It helps to wear scrubs and tennis shoes when you have to walk that far into work, or when you have to run in because you are late because you had to park so far away!

Also, if you wear scrubs fairly consistently, when you do end up wearing normal clothes everyone notices and comments on how nice you look...so that is definitely another perk.

I only have two sets currently, but am planning on getting at least 2 more when I get back from my trip which I leave on in one week from today!!!

Laura and I went grocery shopping last night to get snacks for during the trip...I hope we have room to pack it all!

Possible new profession?

So, something exciting happened at work today! I know, crazy huh! Anyway, I usually just end up answering phones (as usual) on clinic days, but today my boss asked if I wanted to take some stitches out on a patient...how cool is that? It was this really old, smelly man who kept winking at me, but he was oh so nice...ha ha! It was a little nerve wracking though because it was my first time and the stitches were on his face. Sorry if any of you are squeamish when it comes to stuff like this. Anyway, our PA Steve showed me how, it's really quite simple, you just cut one side, grab the knot, and it slides right out. I did the ones on his nose and eyebrow, I didn't really want to attempt the ones near his eye in case I got too shaky and poked his eye out or something. Oops...

The Fire Alarm That Wasn't

The lights start going off, the alarm is blaring...of course you aren't going to think it's a real fire drill, they hardly ever are, right? So we are all sitting around, enjoying the club like feel of the strobe light, when Becky calls and says she saw smoke in the stairwell...oops, perhaps we should have been evacuating.

Then, we hear an overhead page saying that all the employees and patients have to evacuate the building. We grab our stuff and head out, and as usual, everyone is standing at the main entrance to the hospital, all unorganized and frazzled, waiting for any news.

Apparently someone got stuck in the elevator, and some huge panel came over from the wall next to the elevator and covered it up, made it inaccessible. We ended up out there for two minutes, thinking we might get to go home early, when they told us that we could go back in, it was just someone who was fixing the tiles on the roof who managed to create a flame.

Now everyone was trying to get on the elevators to get up to our floor, the 5th floor, and there was just as much chaos as when everyone thought there was a blaze in the building!

Back to work for the next hour and a half, oh well, at least we got to breathe some fresh air and take a break for a few minutes!