Where does the week go...

My thoughts on my week:
1.Work: On giving/ getting report. So nurses sign off of her patient's to the next nurse is called, 'report'. These minutes & sometimes 1/2 hour can be torturous. By this I mean some people want details that are irrelevant when a patient has been there 2, 3, 4+ months. ITs annoying. Other times, you can tell they are listening & then not, & then they expect you to repeat what you just said. Seriously, I've been here already for 12+ hours--I want to go home, is what I'm thinking when someone does this to me. Then for these folks, they are not appreciative, you may have organized the bedside, hung new fluids/replaced old lines...really set them up nicely for their shift, but all they want to do is knit-pick...it is annoying!!
Then on the flip side when you know someone or at least you know they know the patient & report won't be so painful, I'm always delighted when I see those people. (ok-I feel a little better :) )
2.Secondly--(kind of follow up to #1) My primary pt. is going home soon, strange for me, he has been there since November, I'm gonna miss him, but I am doing all I can to get him home. The Docs. haven't technically ordered discharge paperwork yet, but I and some other nurses have gone through MOST of the discharge teaching for him with his parents so it will be a smooth transition on the day he does go home, probably this coming week. It will be weird when he isn't there, you form a bond to the patient, & to the parents. It will be bittersweet.
3.My pregnancy- I am 5+ months pregnant & most of the time I don't feel like it, is this normal. What is normal? I want to feel the babe move. I want to know they're ok. In mind if I can get over the 28 week hump, I will feel better. We admitted 23 week triplets at work last week. The biggest of the three already died--the 300 & 400gramers are still on the unit. That is so daunting to me I am just about 22 weeks.
4.Life--I love lists, I have a list of 'to dos' that I keep checking off & at the same time it feels like it keeps getting longer. I'm starting to nest too. I want to get our bedroom painted, get curtains & hang some photos soon. Plus the babe's room, I need to be inspired on that a bit. We have colors in mind & then I look on OhDeeDah's website & find different things I like. I don't want to commit to that quite yet. IKEA trip is next week for us, we've found quite a few things that we like there--crib, dresser/changing table. Plus, one of my favorite artist JJ Heller is having a concert in Charlotte March 1st, so we figure we'd wrap it into one trip overnight--can't wait.

Aaaah breathe...it is the weekend! :)