in the Hands of the Potter: "I'm not crazy, just a little unwell...."

Saturday, January 6, 2007

"I'm not crazy, just a little unwell...."

At this moment, I am sitting in my bed, listening to my iPod, cozy under my Bills blanket. I haven't enjoyed the weekends this much in a long time! That's one of the few down-sides of not having a job ...... all the days ran together and I didn't appreciate the ability to sleep in on Saturday. But now I am taking full advantage of my responsibility to sleep in! :)

My body definitely had a shock coming to it when I had to start getting up at 6 am again. It's funny because I can do it when I have to. When I was doing surgery, I got up at 4 am every day ... and went to bed around 10. And loved it. I guess my body was used to it. I've realized that I had gotten used to actually sleeping, during the wonderful 4 months of unemployment. I had forgotten what it felt like to be chronically sleep-deprived.

On the other hand, however, I am enjoying being back in the swing of medicine. I do feel that I have forgotten a lot of the things I'm supposed to know ... but I'm hopeful that I will learn them again - and more! I've been told that the first year of work is usually just as much of a learning experience as the two years of school. And I'm looking forward to that.

Working with psych patients is definitely interesting, that's for sure! I have a special place in my heart for psychiatric issues, for some reason (probably has something to do with Bob and his bipolar patients!!!) and so I like this. I find myself sitting and talking to the patients about non-medically related things, trying to encourage them, and figure out how to approach them and change their behavior. I know that isn't my job .... but listening comes easily to me. Some of the patients seriously crack me up. There is something about interacting with people that I simply love! I find myself walking down the halls smiling or laughing .... you just can't make some of this stuff up! :)

I do have one patient at the moment that is driving me crazy (no pun intended). :) I honestly can't tell if she's seriously sick or if she's just trying to get attention --- on one hand, I want to make sure that she's ok ... and on the other hand, I can't find anything wrong with her. It's making me frustrated because the nurses think she's just making it up, but I don't want to just assume that and then find out something really is wrong. :-P

I hit a possum on my way home last night. :( It was dark. I had looked down at my phone. I looked up and there it was, huge, hanging out in the middle of the road. I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought maybe it was short enough that if I drove over it in the middle of my car (instead of swerving around), I wouldn't hit it with my tires and it would be ok. THUNK. Nope. Maybe if it had ducked, it would've been ok .......... I just hate that feeling of hitting things. And the look on it's face when it saw me coming at it - seriously, it looked SCARED! (how does a possum look scared, you ask?? well, you would know if you had seen this possum ......)

That's enough for now. More at a later date :)

posted by emily @ 10:51 AM

2 Comments:

At 12:20 AM, Anonymous said…

girl, you crack me up! I am kinda curious as to what a possum looks like scared! :) I praise God for your heart for others! You love as Jesus loves...praise Him! Keep shining Him to all you see...be His hands, His eyes, His heart...Shine Jesus, Shine! miss you!
At 7:43 PM, Anonymous said…

hey- maybe you should be looking at the road instead of your phone?!?!
Try to behave yourself...

ps. I am praying for your China trip!

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