In A Pear Tree

Here's to working Christmas night!

Highlights this year:

• 12 alcoholics
• 11 pain med seekers
• 10 c-diff cleanups
• 9 stool samples
• 8 hours charting (each night...)
• 7 GI bleeds
• 6 patients filled with cancer
• 5 comfort care patients
• 4 dirty jokes from patients
• 3 doctor's yelling
• 2 times I cried
• And a lady AIDS patient
• And a code stroke
• And a trip to the morge
• And a "oh the lady in 18 is dead"
• And a "we were gonna send him to psych but..."
• And a Spanish only speaking patient
• And a remember to CYA
• And a whole box full of stress and zits!

"Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.  And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." Luke 9"1-2