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Crazy day (and small DH vent)
My DH is in Denver for work this week so we aren't able to talk much (he's in a convention all day and then they have scheduled dinners/activities at night). Last night I barely got any sleep at all, and today had to be at work super early.
Well I get my first patient, start her IV, give her her injection, and she tells me she's feeling light-headed. I've been doing this job for five years and countless people have told me they were light-headed, and I've never had anyone completely pass out on me. Usually if you raise their feet, give them smelling salts, etc. they are fine. We don't have a cart for her to lay on so I tell her to put her feet up, take deep breaths, etc. while checking to see if my co-worker is in the room for back up in case she passes out. Nope I'm all alone. So I check on her and am about to call for nursing to help and she completely passes out and I'm making sure she doesn't fall out of her chair, when finally he walks in and I yell that I need help. He pushes the panic button on the wall to get nurses and help in the room and in the mean time her feet and hands tense up and we suspect she might be having a seizure.
Luckily she snapped out of it very quickly and the nurses came and took her to the ER and she was fine although when she got there her heartrate was in the 40s but it went back up to the 60s. Dr. said most likely just a vasovagal response after having the IV started. But it was very scary, especially since at first I was completely by myself with her at 6:45 am and hardly anyone in the department. If my co-worker hadn't shown up when he did I would have had to lower her to the ground and then push the panic button.
So anyways I email DH that I had a rough morning and that a patient passed completely out on me and he responds that he took a 2 mile run at lunch and doesn't even say anything at all in response to my email. It just ticked me off, I guess he didn't realize that it was a scary situation and I had wanted to talk to him about it. It ticked me off.
The blizzard I stopped and got on the way home did make me feel slightly better though :-)
Re: Crazy day (and small DH vent)
That would be scary. I'm a teacher and can't imagine being in the health field. Although, I have basic first aid training, I always hope that I never have to use an epi pen or take care of a student having a seizure. So scary!
Glad to hear The Blizzard helped your mood :-)
Thanks ladies. Yeah DH didn't understand that all I needed was just a listening ear. He is usually very attentive I think it was just that he's away for work and wrapped up in that. I have to say I have the utmost respect for military wives I can not imagine being away from DH for an extended period of time, one week is bad enough. Luckily I have an awesome sister and my mom is a nurse so I was able to tell them about it.
I'm a nuclear medicine technologist so I work in healthcare but not in nursing so I usually get fairly stable patients, especially at my current job. Most of what we do is stress testing (we take pictures of their heart before and after they walk on the treadmill, checking for blockage). At my old job I got a lot of bad inpatients but was able to assess the situation pretty quickly and always had a nurse on speed dial if something were to start going wrong.
This was scary because it was an outpatient and it just happened so fast and unexpectedly. And the panic button and the telephone were across the room so once she was actually passing out I couldn't get to them without leaving her, which obviously I couldn't do.