Couch 56...Getting Back to our roots

Wild Night Calling: So after all the chaos ended, about midnight, I stepped out to walk home from work (just a mile or so), all dark, no street lamps, and a few steps into my ramble the storm comes roaring with thunder, lightening, weirding the landscape, soaking me completely in less than a minute---I walked, I ran, I stomped through the river running down the streets, the world went mad and it was just so appropriate, trees cracked, no person or animal anywhere to be seen, I didn't take the shortcut through the wood, maybe I should have.... Oddly, the best part of the night---I actually had to undress in the dark on my porch and hang the dripping clothes up before going inside...the water was pouring off me by then.
Found my son, comforting his son, I took over after a bit; poor kid---& finally just hopped into the crib with him and he cooed & laughed and fell to sleep till 10am. I woke up in my own room but don't recall getting here.
The air, for now, comes fresh and light through the open window.
Before all that I'd had a long shift (had to stay over an hour late to finish notes)--the nurse on the adjoining wing was still there, I had a patient pull out her IV (PICC) line, another fell, she had an admission with IV and no information on the IV, then without the right equipment to run it, a fall, oh, first it began with one of our aides on the floor shaking and crying and feeling symptoms of a stroke (could have been a severe panic, fingers crossed, we sent her off to the ER) so we were short, short staffed, and I answered lights and helped the other nurse by doing her first med pass---she helped me find the missing paperwork on the pt. I had leaving today (saturday, so we Had to Have it or else) and took a look at the line my pt. pulled out (it did not look like it was all there, so off to the ER)---I kept one sweet, weak, new admission with me for the last med pass as she kept getting up and I didn't want her to fall, luckily she found my medication cart and antics absorbing and sat there smiling, didn't leave even when I left to administer or do treatments...the unit is pretty full right now, we each had 14 skilled pts.---broken hips, sepsis, younameit...I think we did pretty damn well, no one died, or was injured, not even me toileting a woman way too heavy for me to be helping alone----but, she was grateful to make it to the toilet and I don't feel any ill effects (I pride myself on body mechanics, attribute that to being small but never having a work related injury in my 40yrs in health care--first as an aide, then RN)---but boy my legs cramped up last night (those damn concrete floors and no breaks) and I am aware of my body today. Think I'll go back this evening for more: I am nuts.
The day was appropriate after all, I realized part way through that it was my late brother's birth day. May the couch fold up around me.

winter4me, you write really well. That was a moving post. Now allow yourself to rest on the couch for a bit.

That is a good point! Although, the boy's mom is one of my friends, so that would be his reason he would give for not going!

the party isn't about you, its about the kids.....

Winter...I agree you write very well

You have to survive.... just be you and do things for you and if he wants to join he can.

Morning couchsters. I'm having trouble getting moving this morning. I'm dog #2:

MKAC get your arse up..... you have chickens to feed and horses to tend too, pigs to slop, grass to mow... ahhh nevermind, click the TV on that **** can wait!

They are DUCKS, dangit. And H let them out. Horses are out in the pasture, sweating just standing there, so I can't really do anything with them. No pigs. Lawnmower is broken. House is dirty -- I should address that but ...

I asked this on another thread, but is there some waiting room protocol or etiquette that no one told me about? What does one DO in the waiting room that a T would need to discuss with you? Is there some rule I am possibly violating without even knowing it?

Mainly I make sure I have the check in my pocket to hand to him as soon as I walk in there. I check my email and the Couch. I will maybe text a friend. What do you guys do in the waiting room?

screw the house, turn on the tv like lola with the ever-changing profile pic says.

I want to go for a swim. But here I sit, in my pj's still wondering if I'll ever get moving myself.

Waiting room...

Turn the volume off on my phone
Keep to myself.
Don't talk to anyone.
Eyes fixed on my iphone while I view the couch messages.

that's it.

I always wait in my car until the last possible second so I don't spend much time there.

I am either always on my phone, doing work for school, or staring off into space while in the waiting room.

I pretty much check the couch, check my email... try no to engage in conversations ( as I am notorious for talking to strangers ).....

I am trying to get a "feel" for a good one.... any suggestions?

I generally go in the late afternoon, so that is when all of the kids are there for their appointments.. So, in general.. I try to ignore talking to people. It is too hard to think about why those kids are there. Although, there is a kid that goes once a month, who goes to the school I work at. He always sees me and yells, Hi Mrs. R! LOL..

hmmmm....Lola, you want ME to pick?
lol

Wiki.. you trying to get me kicked off of here?

OR...
(slightly nutty)

or...maybe this is more you

LOL, wiki! How about you help me find a new pic? I think buddy the elf is getting old!

ok healed...

back to Lola

Hey Wiki.... the kid in the suit is kinda creepy... just sayin

Eek!!!!!!

ha ha ha ha....
just kidding healed.

I am finding the most outrageous pics...