Days off

I've got the next two days off after working the last 2 nights. Last week I was really starting to miss my little babies and maternity patients and wouldn't you know...my last two nights have been nothing but maternity and babies! Although it wasn't exactly what I would have wanted to experience. The first night was fine. I spent the night in labor with a young girl...wait, that doesn't sound right....she was in labor and I was with her, yeah, that's better. She was amazing. The young girls always seem to do so well. They handle the pain so much better than you'd expect them too and they progress so quickly. This girl was an inspiration to all laboring women. She progressed from 0cm to 10 cm in 6 hrs and was obviously in pain but barely made a noise. I ended up missing that delivery because she got to 10cm at 7am when I was going home. Boo! Then last night I was called directly to the labor room to help with a baby that was being transported to the NICU at the Foothills. That situation wasn't much fun to experience but everyone was so fantastic that in some ways it was a good experience. The two docs were amazing and the NICU transport team was unbelievable. The team is made up of nurses and respiratory techs from the NICU and I used to work with all of them when I worked in the Special Care nursery so that was fun. The amount of knowledge those girls have is unreal. I got to call my old postpartum unit when we transferred the mom there and my friend Lisette answered the phone and she was like "I didn't think you did labor and delivery!" and I was like "I DON'T!" It was pretty funny. So now I'm off till Saturday!
Andrea and Allison came out last Friday for a Girls Night. Travis spent the night at the firehall doing a ride along with EMS but they didn't get any calls so he basically just slept over at the hall. We had so much fun. We went for dinner at the Grizzly Paw then rented movies and had some drinks and junk food at home in our PJ's. It was just like a sleepover when we were kids...minus the drinking of course. Then on Saturday Travis came home and made us breakfast after saving the Rose and Crown from a grease fire, he's my hero. After breakfast we went downtown and did some shopping and the girls went home. Travis and I had a quiet afternoon at home then met some friends at The Drake for dinner.
Sunday ended up being a "sick day" We went for breakfast with the guys from the hall as usual. Then neither one of us was feeling well so we rented movies and spent the next 12hrs on the couch. We still weren't feeling well on Family Day Monday so again we spent most of the day on the couch till I went to work. Travis is still sick with a cough and ended up working from home yesterday but made it to work this morning. Hopefully he's surviving at work today.
Gotta get on with laundry since I've slept most of the day away.