I am turing into a night owl…
Pretty much any of my close friends will tell you, I am not a night owl in any sense of the world. Grumpiness arises at around the 11pm-12am if I have not hit the sack by my usual, when life is in order, 9:30pm bedtime. Ask me to stay up past midnight and you are going to find either a less than friendly Christine on your hands or someone who is almost out of their minds with giddy silliness of rampaging emotions.
Enter move to the UAE stage right.
There is nothing like a 10 hour time zone difference off how you have slept your entire life to make you rotate you awake time preference to something than what it was before. Unfortunately, it has not been a complete miracle. Nope, this whole rotating shifts thing (worst idea ever) keep me in a constant state of upheaval. Rearranging my sleeping patterns every 3-5 days was just not lending itself to a happy or sane Christine. So enter another life similarity to my mother at stage left.
Two weeks ago found me in the Director of Nurse’s office asking if there was something we could do about the fact that I keep coming to sleep having not slept the night or day before. Thankfully, she agreed and as of April I will only have to rotate throught day and night shifts and I get to stick with each for a two week period of time. Praise God for that! Hopefully this will be a happy solution to the lack of sleep problem.
I must confess I like the night shifts…the little angels don’t sleep quietly in their beds most of the time but minus the hustle and bustle of the busy day shifts it is quite nice to have a bit of a slower pace onthese shifts. More time to actually get to knowthe babies and what is wrong with them. This night I have been busy snuggling with one of the big ones who eats way too much. The precious cuties does make the most adorable facial expresions!
So yes, I do like my job. That is safe to say. Plus, it’s Vasantha and I hanging out tonight which means that the talk of pathophisiology is flowing forth from her absolutely amazing brain! World’s best teacher!!! Loves her!!!
I’m going to go eat more dry cookies now…little angels are all asleep.:-)
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