yep. in My Life As A Momma

It’s 3:05am and I’m at work… I’m honestly not sure how I feel about the whole overnight shift… I only do it on Tuesday nights so thats a plus.. but in a nursing home its both boring and annoying.

This whole week has been a mess. Work.. home.. all of it.

This last two weeks I worked sunday morning, tuesday overnight, sunday morlning and tuesday (now) overnight. Thw first sunday ariund 7:30am I went in and told one of my ladies who is pretty independent but has dementia to get ready for breakfast (starts at 7:45) and then told her I would be back at 7:45 to remind her to come down and eat. Went and got one of my others up and taken down to then dining room before heading back towards Carols room. Ad im wakking down the hall I hear “help, help, I need help” I stop in and instant and try to tell where its coming from, it happened to be Carol. I walk in her room and she happens to be laying on the floor! Walker on its side, glasses four feet away and BLOOD everywhere. I see that she has busted open her head and has a cut on her hand. She is.complaing of pain so i holler that i need a nursenand wait for help. After the paramedics take her out the reat of the day stayed kind of quiet. Tell last week overnight I find out that she had broken her left hip, her left arm and vertebraes in her neck! Then as one of my guys was up every ten minutes asking me if it was time to get up. Finally around 4:30am I decided I would get him up and let him sleep in his wheelchair as he seems to sleep better that way anyway. Got my other two getups up and ready for the day before heading home. When I came into work on sunday morning I had found out that both of them had passed away as well as one other! Two of my people are in isolation with the flu and one is in the hospial with health problems… OY VEY! I love what I do and the relationships I build with my residents. But it is beyond emotionally draining! It kills me like im losing a friend or a relative every time!

Home life is better now. The finacial stress has taken a tole on me lately wbut I think it’s slowly coming together. I will be VERY happy to have our taxes done and in our account. I would love to use some of that to fix some of our credit, catch up on some bills and work on buying a house. I’m SO tired of living underneath people! No consideration for anyone. Tried to sleep oa little today knowing I worked all night tonight and they had there music blaring and dogs yapping all day! Im beat!

Sigh I think this may have turned into a a bitchfest.. or a pity me entry.. not what I intended. so I will leave the rest of what I have to say for a later day…

Have a great day all, I intend to spend mine sleeping and then doing a butt load of laundry!

Bye!