10 Kinds of Exhaustion

Today is a day of running around, can't keep anything straight, would loose my head if it wasn't attached type of day! The past few days are kinda a blur, which is sad--I admit. Saturday I had my very first day of Pathophysiology, wow, it's gonna be a lot of work...or so it seems! It's okay, I will keep this in mind...I can kick patho's butt, I can kick patho's butt. I think if I say this enough, then it will happen! After class I came home, ate with the fam, and then took a nap. Matt let me sleep, notice I said let me because he always gets me up after about 30-40 minutes of a nap some how or another. When I woke up it was 3:45! I couldn't believe it, the babysitter would be here at 5 to watch Lukas so we could go out to dinner with friends. I had to clean, dirty dishes had piled up, clothes were scattered everywhere, things were out of place, just a typical day in the Blackburn house. Matt decided he wanted to nap, so I made Lukas a snack, turned on Gabba, and cleaned as fast as my two hands would let me for the next hour. Somehow I managed to be ready in time for Amber to arrive. We had a fabulous dinner out at Metropol with old and new friends, all of us had kids so that ended up being half of our dinner conversation, haha. Sunday I kept Lukas home from church because he was still getting over his stomach virus, and I didn't want to do the boomerang effect--he give it to a kid in the nursery and then next week he get it back in nursery. It didn't sound too appeasing to me, so we stayed at home through the church service. We met my brother and sister for lunch and stayed out most of the day. We had an awesome day!

Monday was my first day as a clinical instructor, I have to admit, I liked it! I have a great clinical group and after clinicals, Lukas and I got to spend the day with my Mom! Another great day...which leads me to today...10 kinds of exhaustion! I had another class this morning, Research. It's going to take me a while to get the concept of statistical analysis, numbers, and such...but it's going to happen! I know it will, ha-ha. Anyway, I WAS on call today for work, blah. One of my co-workers graciously agreed to pick up my call shift from 7am-11am while I was in class. At 6:24am my phone rings, "Kari"..."yes" "We are going to need you this morning" "what?" "You are on call, we need you" I then go on to explain that Lisa took my call until 11, and she then told me, "Well call me at 11 and I will tell you if we need you". I said okay and looked at the clock. BLAH. The alarm was set for 6:35, and it was 6:24. I battled with the thought, do I go back to sleep for 10 minutes, or get up now? Hmm...go back to sleep I go! It felt like just a second went by and I woke back up, which is pretty much what happened. I decided to wear my scrubs just in case I were to get called in, BUT I had plans today. I had a dentist appointment at 2:30, AND I was going to get my car detailed (something that has needed to be done for probably 3 years or so).

At 10 I began to look at the clock, what is she going to say when I call her? Will they need me, and, if they do, for how long? At 10:55 we had a break from class, so I called. Sure enough, they needed me 100%. I headed over to the ER expecting for a long day. It actually wasn't that busy, not for me anyway. I battled with canceling my dentist appointment, but, I thought I may get to leave in time for it. Didn't happen. She let me leave at 2:30 which was my appointment time, they had already given my appointment away :( So, I had to reschedule for Monday.

No ladies and gentleman, this is NOT my car, but in my mind, it looked this way!

I came home, emptied out my car (all the trash, tupperwear from work, nursing bags, shoes, diapers, wipes, just about anything you can think of), and then headed to Clean Sweep. I ended up waiting for an hour on my vehicle, and in the mean time I sat next to this guy who was evidently full of himself. He kept talking about how he was having his car cleaned for his date tonight, and he knew she would really love him. He stayed on the phone for the entire hour talking about himself and his plans. I was trapped too, I had no where to go and set other than right in that spot. I wanted ear plugs, AND get this...when I make a phone call to my husband I hear the guy say "Wow, I can't hear because this person has decided to call someone while I'm on the phone." What??? He was on a cell phone, not a PAYPHONE. I didn't ask him if I could use his phone...and I wasn't going to ask him if I could use mine.

Needless to say, long day today! I am happy to be home. I'm trying to stay awake to watch Teen Mom with my momma, but my eyes are getting heavy and my little man is asleep :)

Always, Kari