Sunday, August 7, 2011

My weekend

Friday:

3 am -- called in for emergency surgery
4 am -- started hemilaminectomy
6:30 am -- hemi done; ran to grocery store for breakfast
7 am -- check on inpatients
7:45 am -- rounds
8:30 am -- appointments, rechecks, regularly scheduled surgeries, paperwork
5 pm -- home
6 pm -- nap on couch
7:30 pm -- wake up; eat dinner
10:30 pm -- bed

Saturday:

6:45 am -- wake up
7:15 am -- check on inpatients; paperwork
9 am -- visit with inpatient's owner
10:15 am -- home
10:30 am -- run errands; lunch
1 pm -- nap
2:45 pm -- wake up
3:10 pm -- movie at dollar theater
5:10 pm -- called in for emergency surgery
6:30 pm -- start abdominal explore/gastrotomy to remove foreign body
8:45 pm -- abd explore done
9:15 pm -- home; shower; dinner
11:15 pm -- bed
11:30 pm -- called in for emergency surgery

Sunday:

12:30 am -- start pyometra surgery
2 am -- pyo surgery done; grab a snack; paperwork
3 am -- start abdominal explore for foreign body
5 am -- abd explore done; paperwork; snack
5:30 am -- nap in VTH locker room
7 am -- wake up; check on inpatients; paperwork
9:30 am -- visit with inpatient's owner
10:30 am -- home; shower; meal (lunch? breakfast?)
12 pm -- bed
4:15 pm -- called in for discharge of pyo patient
4:40 pm -- back at VTH; paperwork
5 pm -- discharge pyo patient
5:45 pm -- home

Not sure how I am still awake and coherent, but there you go. Anticipating lots of sleep on the 13 hour drive to MN tomorrow. At least my pyo patient went home tonight so I don't have to go check on her before we leave tomorrow. Huzzah!

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