in the Hands of the Potter: Spring

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Spring

Spring has finally come to western NY. I'm sitting here in my bed, with a vase of lilacs sitting beside me. I love their smell! It has been raining for the past few days; in fact, this morning, I woke up to just a trickle of water coming from the faucets! No showers this morning. :P Apparently, something backed up with the drainage system, so their was no water pressure. They had to come in and tear up the road to get at the pipes underneath. Weird.

I have told most people at my job that I'm leaving. Actually, I haven't told all that many people .... but if a few key people know, they tell everyone else. It has been interesting, though, because nobody has seemed mad or upset with me. I thought it might be like that, because there can be very bitter attitudes in this department. I was afraid that certain people would be angry, thinking they had done something wrong or that "all the good people leave" (I've heard that one already). But people have been very supportive! I'm trying to explain that I'm not leaving because anything bad happened, but because I want to grow in my career. And when it's put gently like that, it seems to go over pretty well.

I still have not called my boss, though. He doesn't work at my hospital; he works at a nearby branch of this organization. In fact, I rarely see him, as the other hospital is about 45 minutes away and he doesn't come in often. To top it off, he is on vacation this week, so I have been fighting with myself all week -- should I call his cell phone and bother him on vacation? Or should I wait until he gets back to work? Deep down inside I know that I should call him. But I haven't quite gotten up the guts to do it yet .... which is very silly and immature of me. I need to just get it over with!

Right now, I have a patient with a disease called porphyria. It's a relatively rare genetic disturbance that can cause many different medical problems .... but it can mimic acute psychotic episodes and schizophrenia (which is why she's on our unit). It's pretty crazy, because no medications help her. She is hilarious, though, because she's super sexually-preoccupied. Today she just about chased me down the hall yelling, "there she is! there she is! I'm bisexual, you know!" I'm glad I got away. ;o)

posted by emily @ 9:57 PM

2 Comments:

At 3:09 PM, bethany said…

LOL at crazy woman :)

I like it when you blog...
At 5:58 PM, Emily said…

thats SO funny!!! wow that made me smile = ]

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