You will get through it. Know that and focus on that good feeling when you do.

And for what it's worth, in the match-up with the Death Star, I was always rooting for you...

"Well, they're wrong....and you're RIGHT!!!"

So, if this helps, "Well, they're wrong....and you're RIGHT!!!"

But it's always nice to hear it from someone else...

Things will get better. Don't let the bastards get you down!

It's just one bastard, but thank you. I appreciate it.

know the feeling.

3 out of the last 4 Sunday afternoons, I've had a stat body fluid come in when I was running the lab by myself. First was a peritoneal, then a csf and last Sunday a synovial that was loaded to the hilt with polys so I had to do 2 cells counts, wbcs at 1:10 and rbcs at 1:3 dilution. always they come right when I'm in the middle of QC and the ED goes crazy. So I'm trying to do manual cell count on hemacytometer, while simultaneously setting up cytospin for diff and gram stain, finish chemistry QC, run CBC specs (at least one of which invariably needs a manual diff), chemistry specs into centrifuge, pull chemistry specs off centrifuge and run, and so on and so on and so on. Oh, and the cleaning staff picks that time to mop the floor, so I'm sliding around....

they keep promising us that some day they are going to upgrade our sysmex to run body fluids. I'll probably be dead long before some day arrives...

But I confess, I never knew quite what I was letting you in for whenever I casually told a patient: "Well, okay, we'll run a few tests and see what happens..."

I apologize...

just don't do it on Sunday afternoons between 3 and 5 when staff is down to 1 and qc is being run. And if the tests are manual or if the ED has spilled out into the hallways, don't call every 5 minutes looking for the results!

As the other poster said, "This too shall pass." It's one of my favorite sayings these days, esp. with all the fun I've had (and am having!) with my left shoulder.

Hang in there, sweetie...remember that you do know what you're doing.

You're the best...

Peace.

Tomorrow night should be nice. I've got a dinner conference to go to at a local lobster restaurant. No complaints about that...

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Have patience, and endure.
~ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV, scene i


Or one of my personal faves (as a horse person)

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry V. Act II, scene i



Hang tight Aristus!

You're getting vibes whether you want them or not.

and THANKS for all you do, here and elsewhere.

And meditate on that!!

Hopefully it is only temporary and does not involve a loss of job.

It will get better!

insurance company exes are often spawn of satan and darth vader and
I'm sure there are genes from Dick Cheney in an unholy cross pollination as well.....so YOU are correct and they are wrong.

I had to do a prior authorization for a patient's medication yesterday. I wanted to find a high place to jump off of after that. He's got a pretty bad case of pneumonia, but the insurance company held up the payment for the medication until I could shoot them an authorization! Sheesh! For what? The man was very sick, and I prescribed him an appropriate medication.

I have a feeling we'd see a lot less of this nonsense from the insurance companies if families were allowed to stick them with the funeral costs for patients they allowed to die because of their greed.

I was the X Ray technologist, MA, and the "get the authorization/referral" queen. I could here the voice on the med auth line sounded young, and when the (poor kid) asked why Mrs X needed Biaxin instead of e-mycin for a pneumonia.....I snarled "because the Doctor with 20 years of training said so!!!!". Not a proud moment for me, but it did work; I did wonder what the kids supervisor said to her the next day...

improving .

Hope the work problems disappear ASAP!

"Apparently she thinks you are one hell of a badass"

It's a lovely day here in the PNW and the work-day is close to being over. Despite whatever happened at work today, go home, enjoy the great weather, have a cold drink of your choice, sit back and relax.

And then do it all over again tomorrow.