medicman627

I am both blessed and cursed to be a member of a very small sub specialty with PBCFR.  I am a firefighter/paramedic/flight nurse.  In our department currently there are only 8 people who are “signed off” to sit in my seat.  We have several other RN/Medic’s, but they either don’t have all of the other classes and certs, or they don’t want to fly in the helicopter.  It is a blessing to be able to be such of a small crew, but when someone goes out sick, or takes a vacation day, the rest of the crew picks up the slack.  

One of our flight nurses has gone to Homestead for the NASCAR races this week.  Therefore, overtime was available.  I offered to work Sat and Sun.  That way I’d have Monday off priot to starting my normal 6 days on.  Got the call last night that I have mandatory OT on Monday.  Oh the humanity!!!  That means I am on day one of 9 in a row.  It took me about 4 hours last night to wrap my head around it, and I’m still a bit annoyed, but what can you do?  I am a fish in a small pond.  It doesn’t help to be pissy about it.  Understand, for me, that’s a lot easier said than done.  I hope my partners at work are understanding. 

kettlebell workout at work today went pretty good.  The conditioning “finisher” was Flynn’s “Beastmother” (really? whaere does he get these names?) workout.  Today was 15 minutes long, with a 16kilo bell.  Got 2,4,6,8 rest then 6, rest, 4,2,4.  If you’ve done the workout, you understand.  If not, rest assured, I was pretty much spent.  However, this was more reps and with a heavier bell than last time I did her.  Yay me. Then 30 minutes on the treadmill at 2.5 incline and 4.0 mph.

The 8 hour eating window is really working out well for me.  It is helping me quite a bit with my “work boredom” eating/snacking/grazing myself into XXL shirts…. I hope this continues to be effective….8 more days to go.

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