My first week on call

It has been my first week on call for my job. WHen I mean on call I carry this cell phone around between the hours of 4:30pm-8:30am. So that families and nurses who need help outside of office hours have someone to call. I have given this phone a name, I call it the"bat phone". The bat phone will spend hours silent as long as you are not trying to do anything, but the minute you decide to get groceries, watch a show, go out somewhere - that is when it will ring. Its like it knows when the worst possible time to ring is and does.

I have been very frustrated with this phone I spent monday night on the phone from 7pm till 11pm. The calls start to come anywhere from 5am to 7am. Its got to be the most stressful thing. You take your job with you 24/7. Thank god its only very few and far between that I have had to take the phone. I have been yelled at, sworn at and hung up on this week. familes dont like it when there nurses are sick. So they tend to not just shoot the messanger they tend to slaughter the messanger.

Anyway I have one more night then I will not see the bat phone till the end of June. Im glad for it to be over as its hard to really have a normal life with it. I know its necessary and a part of my job but I guess its one of those things that you have to just accept as part of the job. I have tobe grateful as I could still be on nights at the hospital fulltime and that would be much worse!!

Life is good nothing to exciting Barry and I are gonna go look at some bikes tomorrow and hopefully pick some out and start getting out more. Well I know that my blogs are not as funny as my counter part but I promise as soon as the inspiration hits I will write. I have begun to wonder if I have any fans anymore as none of my friends comment on my bloggs. I love it when peeople say hi and let me know they are listening through the comments, gives me a reason to write. So show me your out there and say hi once in a while! Night everyone