ED Nights

So this is my first of 4 nights on in the ED. tonight has been pretty good. we managed to clear Fast track, so now i have no patients to see. its been 1 hour, almost 5 am. i have a little over 3 hrs to go. i would sleep, but i know that once i do, my mind wiould be fogged up and i may not function well when i awake. i wish i did go to sleep, i didn't get any sleep yesterday... and i woke at 8 am for the tradie to come and check the lock on my back door. oh i didn't tell you... there was an attempted break in. they tried to wedge the picture window open/ take it off completely but with both locks on all they managed to do was take the door off the track and get it stuck on the ledge, with not enough room for someone to squeeze through. so it couldn't be opened from either inside or out. i had always wondered about the usefulness of the top lock on the door, well now i know. It WORKS. the reality of it is that if we just had one lock, the house would have been broken into , it needed both of the locks, in use, to thwart the plans of the theives. thanks be to God. i did also manage to fix the door myself. Handy Ruthie! That's me!

so yea, back to the work man, he was coming to check the top lock, cause it has been loose for a while and i was just a little concerend that if there is another attempt it may not hold. so i was up early and though i managed to get a bit over 1hr more of sleep, i am begining to feel it now. i have never been a fan of cat naps, but i may try one tonight.. i do hope no one else comes in till the morning, that would just be glorious....:)

ok enough of me rambling in my down time..... 4:55am on 01.05.09- man this year has gone by fast.....