I haven’t posted anything for five months ( Read more... )

Or why I am like a ruptured slug unable to accomplish anything at the moment. This is mostly photos from a night of work.
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My life feels to be rather unbalanced at the moment, I am in debt on the sleep front, obviously the night duty is a cause, but also the effects of bright light and heat make it hard to catch up even when I am home. I am also in overdraft mode at the bank, not helped by being tired and making poor decisions which end up wasting money ( Read more... )

I am two nights in on the new placement and they have been ... intense. This establishment is a convalescent home which takes in patients who are recovering from operations or medical conditions which no longer require hospitalization but are not quite ready to go home, so mainly older people (64 to 97 years ) but not with psychiatric problems.
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I got into work yesterday and pretty much the first thing I did was check the computer for my work schedule ( Read more... )

As I keep telling anyone who will listen...I am tired, just sort of all the time somewhat lacking energy tired, not let me have a good night's sleep and recover tired, and this means I don't get anything done. I look around, tell myself I should do things, but then I don't. I just listen to a podcast and play a game on my phone and feel guilty.
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Yesterday I was checking the off duty programme on the computer at work and I discovered that I wasn’t noted to work anywhere in August even though others were. I rang up this afternoon and was told that I wouldn’t be doing nights at Leyme, however she was unable to tell me what I would be doing, whether it would be nights elsewhere, or days, or ( Read more... )

My seven night holiday began yesterday, after working 63 hours last week and going on a 4 hour protest march in Cahors on Tuesday. I had worked on five different wards, finishing on the acute admissions ward ( Read more... )

I have bought some bells for the dogs’ collars because they sometimes disappear into the undergrowth and I don’t know how far away they have strayed. I have used them twice and I have to say that they are not a resounding success. I hoped that the noise would warn possible prey animals to take action, and admittedly I did see a couple of cats ( Read more... )

I have been rather lax about getting out for walks recently, the weather has been unsettled with heavy showers and thunderstorms, and I have just had problems motivating myself.
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