bloody woman...

okay day today. woke up early to do beam check. My colleague rang in sick which meant we were going to be understaffed for the whole day. Not so bad. Patients were really weird today. It seemed like they were rocking up at whatever time they felt like. Not even one patient stuck to their scheduled time slot. We were treating our 10:30 patient at 9:00, and our 9:00 patient at 11:30. It was weird. We didn't know if were running behind or early all day because we couldn't keep track. Anyways. With one patient, we were running behind with her. She rocked up early, we thought we'd push a few ambulance patients through (so the ambos would wait and the patient wouldn't have to hang around all day for them to pick them up). So by the time we got her into the room, it was 40 minutes past her appointment time. Not so bad, I won't let it happen again. We set her up. The most annoying patient set up ever. Partly due to the woman, and partly due to poor planning. Not much we can do about that now. We set her up, took us 10 minutes. We leave the room to turn the machine on and then the machine throws a fit because the position of the bed is 6mm outside its limit. Rachel and I throw a fit at the machine. We head back in to move her up the bed 6mm. We explain to the patient what we have to do due to the limitations of the machine. She replies "well maybe its nothing to do with the machine, maybe its the overworked workers". I ignored her. I really should have thrown a fit at her instead of the machine.

Anyways, knocked off early because I started at 7:00 in the morning. Went to use the bathroom. I stole a roll of toilet paper. I am turning into my father. Does anyone want a kidney dish?