November 2010
Fasting blood work should be an easy enough task, even for me the fat chick, but as a shift worker and a breakfast hater, I struggled. So, I totally didn't eat breakfast, went to work for a 1530-2330 shift and my one and only break was at 1645 (4:45), so my 12 hour fast turned into a 16 hour fast on one craptastic cafeteria meal. I usually need to wind down after an ER shift which usually entails me watching TV and grazing for a few hours. Thank God I didn't have to go to the MDS lab with all the cranky elderly people and wait for hours and hours.
Fasting blood work should be an easy enough task, even for me the fat chick, but as a shift worker and a breakfast hater, I struggled. So, I totally didn't eat breakfast, went to work for a 1530-2330 shift and my one and only break was at 1645 (4:45), so my 12 hour fast turned into a 16 hour fast on one craptastic cafeteria meal. I usually need to wind down after an ER shift which usually entails me watching TV and grazing for a few hours. Thank God I didn't have to go to the MDS lab with all the cranky elderly people and wait for hours and hours.
It's the next day, I gagged after brushing my teeth, thank you fasting blood work, you're my favorite today. I feel like my stomach is eating itself because I am sooooo hungry. I drag myself into the lab office and show them my slip. I noticed that Vivian had ticked off quite a few boxes on the outpatient lab slip that I held in my hand. When the girl (ok, so I've worked in the ER for 11 years and I can't know every ones name) I DO know that she is John's GF. Anyway off topic again......so she came at me with 22 vials and I was like wtf dude! What are they testing for, for this surgery! I wasn't scared of having the blood taken or anything, I was just like dude that's a lot of tests. She told me I better go have some water "right away", I thought she was being a bit dramatic, but I did it anyway.
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