well, i was about to make my beautiful gratin, but i realized that the cheese that liv had picked up at the store was gone. i searched the kitchen high and low but couldn't find it. finally, i saw the leavings of a wrapper in the living room. bubba had eaten $25 worth of cheese (valle d'aosta fontina and gorgonzola) while we weren't looking.
this is not good, least of all because i had to go back to the store for the cheese which delayed dinner. the worst sequela of this incident has been the constant doggy diarrhea for the past 24 hours. liv and i were woken up several times to clean up liquid doggy stool / soiled crate or to let bubba out to relieve himself. we would have been totally hosed if it hadn't been for deb. i had to work all day and bubba would have been stuck in his crate, except that deb graciously agreed to let him out today while i was at work.
today was also messy in that i tried to pick up too many patients at work tonight. the day after a holiday is notorious for being high volume. (people don't waste their holiday in the ER; they wait until the day after) today didn't disapoint.
in the ER, the ostensible goal is to see as many patients as possible while providing good care. it can be a fine balance. today, in walking the line between attention and volume, i strayed a bit too far towards the latter. i ended up signing out a bunch of loose ends and generally putting too much on my plate. all this in the name of trying to look like a stud. needless to say, it didn't work out like that, at least in my mind.
this isn't so much a defeat as a lesson to take things a little slower next time. sometimes, i can work through a ton of patients and do a good job. this just wasn't one of those nights.
switching gears entirely, here's a nice pic that liv took in philly with her iphone:
riding my bicycle home from work this evening, i was grateful for a few moments to collect my thoughts and take a few deep breaths after my shift.
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