SUCCESS!

So I've been nothing but successful in cutting my caffiene intake! Yippee for me. Yesterday I was too busy at work to even think about having a coffee. Today I had a steamed vanilla latte at lunch and didn't even think about coffee all afternoon. I win! Two days in a row! I'm on a roll and feeling good.

Work today was CRAZY busy. Holy cow. This morning was full of prenatals, baby check-ups and physicals. For every prenatal patient I have to check their weight, blood pressure, gestation and urinalysis. For every baby check-up I have to check their weight, head circumference and length and for every physical I have to check weight, blood pressure, urinalysis, medications, allergies as well as recent medical/surgical history. I between all those patients I had to take care of the patients for the other docs too and take their histories, vitals, check their meds, book appointments outside the clinic, phone in prescriptions...etc, etc. It was sooo busy today. Jane has delivered a lot of babies in the last week and now they're all coming into the clinic for their first check-ups. We had a waiting room full of crying babies this morning! This afternoon settled down a little bit. Dr. MacDonald, the surgeon, has been teaching me how to do a lot of little procedures lately. I'm not sure whether it's because he's being lazy and wants me to do more of his work or what but he seems genuinely interested in teaching me at every opportunity. So today I learned how to do Rapid Strep tests, treat warts and make fiberglass splits and set joints. So he's going to start letting me do throat swabs whenever I think they need to be done, burn off warts and set joints. Cool eh? More responsibility for me and using my judgement and assessment skills to determine treatments. Someday he said he'll teach me how to do stitches. As if I'm not busy enough already though. Some days it really is like working in a mini ER. I found time this afternoon to have some minor surgery of my own. I had one of the docs biopsy a few skin spots. It's so convenient working in a doctors office :0) And it's SO important to have skin spots checked out and there's really no use for them so why not have them removed!

It's snowing like mad here again. We're supposed to get 15cm overnight. Sue and I were planning on going to Calgary tomorrow but we'll see just how much snow there is in the morning. Tommorrow is March, spring is supposed to be coming, not more winter!!