Guess what’s looming in my immediate future?  A 24hour shift, starting tomorrow at 5am!

One thing I am loving about my new job is the ability to pick up lots of open shifts… and how many open shifts seem to come up!   Bring on that OT, baby! :D   I’ve picked up two extra December shifts so far just today.  Being the newbie, I ended up with a really crap schedule this month.  12-hour shifts on Fridays (7am-7pm), Saturdays (5am-5pm) and Sundays (5am-5pm).  Eisch!  The schedule is planned based on seniority, and guess who is the newest person there and got the most unwanted schedule?!?!  THIS GIRL!  Lol.  I don’t mind, though…  Honestly I’m just psyched to be working at all, and this gives me flexibility and time to pick up open shifts during the week.

This will be my first 24-hour shift at the new company.  Hopefully it will go better than my 1st 24-hour shift at my last ambulance company… which SUCKED.  I remember my clothes chafed off all the skin where they touched my body in my armpits groin, and under my sports bra.  I remember how bad the board and cares smelled- to this day, just thinking of that one really rank place in Oakland STILL makes me gag a little.

The smells, the chafing of the thick polyester uniforms, the heat in the back of the rigs, the MRSA, the urine and the feces… I am all used to all that now, and have developed systems to deal with those things gracefully.   Also, my patient assessments flow much better nowadays, and I am better at lifting the gurney (and am finding that we seem to have WAY LESS bariatric patients in the city of San Francisco and Peninsula than we did on the east bay).  Hope it goes well tomorrow!

Anyways, off to bed because this corgi lover has to get up at 3:30am to get her butt to work!  Looking forward to my first 24.  :)