Feeling pretty depressed. Missed my blood pressure pills for the third day in a row today cause the pharmacy didn't stock the ones I take, so I woke up with my head pounding and have had a headache I can't get rid of all day. Both my parents are sick, they found out dad has lesions on his pituitary gland, mom has calcifications in her breast so am all worried about them too. Have gotten myself into a funk I just can't seem to get out of, feeling a bit like jumping off the balcony at the moment but I can't cause it would ruin living here for K and Tim.

Heh, and I thought working at Gosford was bad....
Worked the last three days, morning shift was okay working with someone on my last day of orientation Monday, but I had yesterday and today on my own, afternoon shifts, yesterday I had 6-7 patients on my own, tonight I had 8, 1 totally bed bound, Naso gastric feeds on 4 hourly flushes, 4 hourly Blood sugar levels and insulin, IV antibiotics, IV fluids, incontinent of poop. 2 post op patients on obs and such, 1 unwell lady with a blood transfusion on hourly obs one other person on Multiple IV antibiotics, 2 who needed a commode to get to the toilet. Two patients VERY febrile, (normal temp 36-37) had temps above 38 degrees. Understaffed for the night, were sposed to have a person doing our obs and stuff but she kept stopping in the middle of doing things for me and going to do things for other people. 5 minutes for dinner break in which I ate 2 slices of toast. Made it worse cause K and T and all went to the Edinburough tattoo tonight to watch their practice, apparently it was awesome and I missed it to deal with this shit.

I wanna die
Thank goodness for days off.
Laters.

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