April 9, 2003
I am about to start working my brains out. I have signed up for a crazy amount of shifts at work. I figure, we have about two months left here and I can hang in there, seeing there is an end in site. The hospital is desperate and the money will be very very sweet. I keep looking at the schedule in awe, wondering if I will make it through all of those shifts alive. I know I can do it...I just need to take it one week at a time and not let myself get overwhelmed. I think I will be spending more nights at work than I will in my bed. And when I think I can't survive another day, I can just think of Reuben, a respiratory therapist at work, who works, like 60 nights in a row and then takes a bunch of time off. Sixty twelve hour shifts in a row!?! I think I would kill myself. That is crazy.