Day 24

Good afternoon everyone. Today I ran a bit late coming home from work. At about midnight last night, I received a call from a charge nurse from the 4th floor of the hospital. She had talked to the house supervisor and really needed me to sit with a patient one on one from 4AM till 6AM. I cleared it with the house supervisor and had everything unlocked by 4, before reporting to 4th floor for the one on one. It went really well. The biggest issue was he still seemed medicated and he kept getting up and walking. They were afraid he would fall down, so whenever he got up and walked I was right there beside him. He kept saying "I'm sorry for making you nervous." I was like "No worries! I just don't want you to fall!" So at 6 oclock, I tracked down the charge nurse, whom I'm sure is the same nurse I had overnight when I was admitted because of my gall bladder being removed. Fun times! She seems really nice. I just remember being in so much pain, and the morphine not doing anything for it. I kept calling her in, and asking her if there was anything else I could get for the pain. Oh well!

At 6 AM, I tracked the charge nurse down,and asked her if she had someone to fill in for me. She was like "Do you 'have' to leave?" I was like "pretty much, yeah I do. If I were to stay, I have to call up the chain and get approval, and all that fun stuff." The guy I was watching was fairly pleasant to be with, so I wouldn't have really been doing a whole lot. However, I also had to get home to get Lex up for school. I had thought about going to the YWCA this morning at 7 and doing water aerobics. Here's what I was doing. At 6:30, I was standing in front of the stove, staring at the clock. In my head were two questions that were bouncing back and forth, argueing with each other in a way. 1) Should I go and do the work out at the Y at 7? or 2) should I wait till my back has gotten better, stay home, get lex up, and watch another episode of Hercules Season 1? Well, I think my back was the big deciding factor. I wanted to exercise, but I don't want to hurt myself worse. So, while Lex was getting ready, I was watching one of the hercules legendary journey series. Then when it was over, it was about 5 minutes before the bus was going to come. Walked her outside, kissed her goodbye, and watched her head to the bus stop.

Then I came in and went to bed. Woke up off and on, but didn't actually get up until it was 30 minutes after 2. I had my appointment with our friend the massage therapist at 3. The massage really helped my back. While I was laying there, my face burrowed in the odd round pillow with a hole that comes with massages, we were chatting for the first few minutes. Then, I couldn't talk anymore as she started running across the knots. From that point on, I did not say a word. There were several points where as she went on, she would hit another area, and I could tell that she noticed them because she would stop and be at that point for a minute or two extra. One or two of the knots made me jump a little.

Afterwards, when I came out, sat down and drank some water, I was like "Dang Sherri, your hands work magic on those knots." She was like "I could tell I found the trouble spots as soon as you stopped talking." Before I left, I asked her if she had any time slots open for next thursday, which is pay day for me. She did, so I scheduled Erin for a massage too.

So, my back still hurts when I sit, move around, etc, but it feels a lot better. I didn't realize I had other knots too, but apparently that was the case. Logged onto WoW for a few minutes but decided I really didn't feel like it. So, sat down out on the porch and started to do my blog entry. Figured, might as well get it out of the way. I am going to call that it for right now. I need to start getting ready for work. I will write more for you all tomorrow.

Thanks for being here.

CB