A bit of good weather and the prospect of a day off tomorrow with a bit of peace and quiet us just what I need at the moment. The last couple of days have been pretty busy getting back into the swing of work and school etc.
As we have been pretty short-staffed for ages, we have finally got a couple of new staff that started this week. To ease them into the madness, they have been doing slightly different hours to the rest of us, but it is nice to see them when they turn up and of course it is wonderful to have their help.
As most of you know, I am not the most graceful of people, and one of the nurses I was working with today, calls me ‘Calamity Jane’ at times (very unkind of her, I know and not in the least justified)! Anyway we had a lovely new lady start with us yesterday who I worked briefly with, and she was in again today.
I went into the Bay where she was working to do some observations, which she was going to watch, and record for me on the handheld system. As I went over to take the patient’s blood pressure, I tripped over the power cable of the big floor buffer thing one of the domestics was using. I saw my new colleague giggle. as the domestic tried to kind of flick it out of my way which only resulted in me tripping again, as I stepped the wrong way to avoid it.
A bit later, I needed a Bair Hugger (a kind of electric heated blanket) for one of my patients who had a low temperature. There was one not needed in the bay next door where our new colleague was working. In her haste to help me, she hurried to unplug it, but caught her foot on the edge of the bed and went flying! She did a few kind of slow-motion leaps to keep her balance, which of course set me off laughing as well.
I think she and I are going to get along just fine, although I don’t know if we will be safe to work together!
Nice, the clumsy karma bit her quickly! My husband could relate- he is a streamlined runner and swimmer, but he can’t walk without tripping or bumping into something!
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Ha Ha! At least your husband has got the saving grace of being a wonderful runner and swimmer! 🙂
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Sorry, I snorted at Calamity Jane, its cute!!
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Yes. She does call me that when I am having one of my clumsy moments! 🙂
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I know it doesn’t sound nice but isn’t it wonderful when you find someone as Klutzy as you are. It makes me swoon with happiness….I just can’t help myself,
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Yes, it is great not to be the only one. We have a new junior doctor on the ward who is also a bit of a klutz. I heard a hell of a commotion with clattering and banging behind the curtain where he was with a patient. It seems he had knocked some stuff flying!
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I giggled at Calamity Jane, that’s cute… but please don’t take her with you to work in an acute section with life support machines!!!
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Ha Ha! God help everyone if I ever had to work in ITU!
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Your co-worker sounds like good company! 🙂
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Yes. She is my kind of woman! 🙂
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It may prove entertaining for your colleagues 🙂
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Ha Ha! Yes, some of the patients enjoy it too! 🙂
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That’s a funny story. It happens to me often.
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It does me too, unfortunately! 🙂
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Always good to find a like minded(co-ordinated!) Soul!
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