this week has been particularly rough at my internship. i think it's a combination of me not getting enough sleep and some pretty manipulative/intrusive patients that have come in lately. i have often heard the advice from my professors "don't work harder than your clients," but i feel like lately i've been having to do just that. sometimes i have to act outside of my personality, being pushy in order to get information we need to help the patients. anyway, yesterday i was very much dreading my 3-11pm shift. for one, the people that come in for psychiatric emergencies after regular business hours are usually pretty severe cases. second, it was valentine's day! i'd been contemplating taking some time off, just to ensure that i'm taking care of myself and not becoming totally burned out physically, mentally, and emotionally.
so around 2pm my supervisor from the inpatient rotation called me to say that my supervisor on this ER rotation was sick and they were having trouble finding a replacement. they didn't feel it was fair to put the interns through that (working with someone not qualified to supervise), so she told me to take the night off. YAY! praise the Lord! this was seriously an answered prayer!
chris and i didn't have anything planned last night, because we were planning to celebrate "valenversary" tonight: monday was our 6 month wedding semi-anniversary and of course valentine's day last night. despite not having planned anything ahead, we had a pretty great night. we enjoyed a candlelit dinner of leftovers, chris brought me home 2 dozen beautiful red roses, and we snuggled watching father of the bride. i am so thankful for the surprise blessing!
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Yay for the suprise holiday! Sometimes those can be even better than the ones you're expecting! Have fun on the Valenversary and congrats on 6 months! (and the previous 4 or whatever years, haha)
word. you have a good supervisor
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