I got a new stethoscope this week (a much needed upgrade from the hand-me-down I've been used through nursing school and the last few years of being a nurse) and I get to use it for the first time during my shift tonight and I'm very excited. Everyone's getting auscultated tonight baby!
I’m sick as a dog, right? Like— cough, chills, sore throat, achey— the whole kit and kaboodle with the exception of a fever. I offered to my boss that I would work a half day and go home after lunch so I could recover before it got any worse.
Backstory: I told these people when they hired me that my health wasn’t great. I need to have my tonsils removed and the chronic tonsillitis is causing my immune system to work like a dodge neon (not well at all.) I had been scheduled to get them removed in late February so that I could amend the issue in which I keep calling out because I got sick. They made me postpone it to mid April because one of one of my managers going on vacation.
On that note, I’m never more than 1 minute late to my shifts. This, to me, is damn impressive when you consider that the ADHD time blindness is REAL and difficult to take care of— especially when I was diagnosed late. They are about to write me up because I showed up “one minute late” more than 3 times in the past 6 months. Then the threatened to write me up for having to go home sick more than 6 times in the past six months.
The kicker? I work for a fucking hospital. The sort of place you’d expect would understand that health needs are a real thing. Besides that I hate coming in when I’m sick not because I can’t work while ill (I can, I just tend to make mistakes.) it’s because I know I’m still contagious and our patients (ages 60+) are immunocompromised. A cold for me could be deadly for them.
Plus I’m going to school full time on top of working full time too.
So what I mean to say is: make it make sense. You’re mad that we call in but we call in because we get sick and we all get sick because we still come to work when we are not feeling well because you don’t let us call in. If you don’t want me to take time off why give me PTO? I can’t h e l p if I get sick more than 6 times in 6 months. PLUS this issue would be under control if you guys would have let me get the tonsillectomy when I had originally scheduled it and decided to prioritize the needs of the clinic over my own personal health.
So anyway
I’m sick as all get out the rotting at this damn place that I hate because if I take care of myself I’ll get written up. It’s very cute. 🙄
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Well after 2.5 years of avoiding it, while working in a healthcare setting, the Vid finally got me. If anyone has any Ted Raimi content they'd like to share to get me through these trying times I'd greatly appreciate it
As a healthcare worker, I find it funny to realize people actually want to see you get hurt/sick/angry in order to say preventive measures just don't work, all the while governments don't have enough supplies for Covid, tuberculosis, cancer and PPE. How is it that a dead Doctor makes someone happier, instead of demanding better health services? How is a dead Doctor better than complaining about a system that lets this happen?