Still cold and wet but I'm slow cooking osso bucco with apple cider and some chilli. I have a lot of apple and pear cider. The golf membership includes 150 dollars free at the bar to encourage drinking I guess, or maybe its for de-stressing after golf, a very frustrating game. I dont drink after golf very often as I'm driving anyway so I had to take the $150 of booze all at once as it disappears at the end of the year, so we are very well stocked in ciders, possibly over stocked considering we are "light weights" in drinking terms. I dont know how cider will go in osso bucco instead of white wine but its nice to try different things.
I've been reading up on diabetes in pregnancy as they are diagnosing a lot more of the mothers as Type 2 diabetics but frankly so far I find it unclear to say the least, there seems to be no agreement on levels of blood sugar. They want us to do far more testing of the babies but the guidelines are murky. I am not going to do the formal test anymore as you have to squeeze 3/4 ml out of a babies heel which is very difficult. It used to be 1/2ml which was possible but they bought a new machine which requires more blood to test. Anyway I'm lousy at doing it so I'm not going to do it. I have a list of things I dont do at work now, my non bucket list. Top of the list all the rubbish paperwork they throw into the place. I have got smarter through I dont say anything. Often I used to say when they introduced the next great idea that I thought it was rubbish which meant it was my fault when nobody did it. This is a funny story from years age they introduced a new nursing care plan which nobody liked and got rid of the one we did like, nobody would fill them in as they were useless. As punishment they would send people down to medical records to fill them in, of course sitting in a nice sunny patientless room for an hour or so was very appealing so the chances of the form being filled in went down even lower.
On friday I had a sickie as I'd played golf for 2 days and could hardly walk. Friday is the worst day as they do the most caesars that day, induce women who often end up C/Ss too and then try to pile general patients on top of everything. I'm so glad I didnt go they said it was the worst day ever 34 women in a 28 bed ward, people sitting in the arm chairs, the nurse unit manager yelling at everyone then being taken off to Cas in a wheelchair with her medical problem. No staff as a couple of other people off as well as me. No bed cleaner for the day. Then the higher ups came to straighten it out by telling the poor bird in charge to ring night duty to come in early, dream on, these people already doing a 10 shift. they refused.
Did I feel guilty no relieved, I really just feel too old for the chaos through I defy anybody to come through those days without damage. What a mess hospitals and nursing has become all over the world.
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