Inauguration day

This morning I woke up about 10 minutes before the alarm went off - that was a nice feeling. I actually felt like I had had enough sleep...... And since my team was post call I assumed that we would not have to stay too terribly long, because usually there isn't much going on... Well I was wrong! My favorite Resident from Kosair is on the trauma team now and covers for whichever team is post call. And since Kathy and I do not have a Y Chromosome (just like Sarah) we had to stay and follow him while he was talking to the nurses and writting orders. If he had at least tought us something or sort of acknowldged our being there.... But we just had to follow him around. We asked him several times if we could help him with something, just to have something to do and not just stand there and wait for something to happen, but he would either say no or even better "oh wait, I'll find something!" It's not like we need to be kept bussy.... Around 11.30 we really had all of our stuff done and there was nothing left to do for our patients.... So we were hoping to get to leave and do some reading at home, where it is quiet, but no, he told us to stay and wait till two for an extubation.... I could hardly believe he really said that, extubation is nothing but pulling out a breathing tube of someones throat - what could I possibly learn from that?!?!?!?!?!? It's not like we haven't seen that at the end of almost every single operation that we have been in on..... Anyway he made us stay and the best part about it was, he took a nap!!!!!! He is just so lazy.
Well Kathy and I made the best out of it and went to a nearby restaurant and watched the inauguration. So that was really neat. Unfortunately it was really crowded and somewhat noisy, so that we did not hear the entire speech. But thanks to You Tube I can listen to it again. It was a very moving moment.... I really enjoyed it, being part of it.... The speech was not very long, but still very impressive and there wasn't much left to say! He is an incredible speaker! And hopefully he will be able to change many of the things he's got on his list.....
After the really exciting extubation (nothing happened, the patient didn't even desaturate....) I finally managed to leave even though he would have wanted me to stay till 5 because something could come up. But I decided not to and instead go home and get some quiet reading time, cause it is really hard to find a spot in the hospital to read and not be disturbed constantly.....
Overall the day wasn't bad, but this one particular resident just makes me mad. Because so far he only kept the female students till afternoon, the guys all got to leave earlier on post call days!!!!! But I only have to deal with him one more day, so that is not bad and I can handle that.
Tonight we had dinner with Meemaw and Pawpaw again. Now there is only one Tuesday left before I will be leaving. It is really kind of strange thinking about that now... I only got a little more than a week left and two weeks ago it seemed as if time would never go by, and now it went by so quickly. Tomorrow will be my last night on call and therefore I better get to bed.....