Ever find yourself on mental overload?  That was me this week- total mental overload.

I worked all weekend and was able to get some “learning questions done” while at work on diabetes. I got 10 of the questions done In a couple of hours.   Great, ahead of schedule.

And yes I literally scheduled my week, included a schedule to get these questions done (64 this week), my case studies, my pre clinical work (Monday’s), clinical, my work schedule, gym time,  etc.    It all works out in my schedule but then it takes me longer than expected to complete these things so then other things suffer, laundry, mental down time, time with my husband, time at the gym gets nixed (bad for my health- not going)

I went in Monday to do my pre clinical Patient information research. That took me a couple of hours to do that. Then I needed to go to the grocery store, stop at my doctors office for a sample of my Advair because I waited too long to refill my Rx and it wouldn’t arrive in time before the last one I had ran out of  doses.   So I got the sample and then went to the Publix right across from the doctors office. Big. Mistake.  It was set up completely different from my normal Publix and took me more than an hour to fid what I needed. I spend  $190 and still didn’t get everything I needed because they didn’t have it!

So I got home around 4:30 and started to work on my presentation for pre conference and that ran long and I had to chill out before I went to bed which I didn’t get to until 10:40pm.

The next day, I didn’t leave myself enough time to get to clinical and didn’t arrive until 0650 instead of 0630 like I was supposed to. Then, as it turns out I forgot my patient notes on my desk so I couldn’t present my patient in Pre- conference.

The teacher sent me out to research my patient again and having to do that again and being late just sent me into tears.    I felt so bad. It’s not like me to be unprepared and I hate to be late.  We sat in the hall in a couple of chairs near the elevator and talked for about 10 minutes.  It was enough for my to “cry it out” and get myself together again.  The rest of the day went well.  I had a very nice patient that left me at 11:55 am to go to surgery and I didn’t see her again for the rest of the day.  Mental overload.
What made the day worse was that I only had time for a banana for breakfast  then didn’t get to eat until 1pm. No morning break.  But we have lunch from 1 until 2 and then we get a 30 minute break from 3:30 until 4pm.  Then post conference at 4:30 until 6:30. By the time 1 pm came around I was soooo hungry I was so desperate for food that I went in the shortest line in the cafeteria and ended up with a flame broiled burger with fries.  Not a very healthy meal I must say.  This meal repeated on me all day.  It was disgusting. By the time post conference came around I was so ready to leave. I am appreciative of what she taught us but I was ready to leave just the same. I think the day needs to be broken up better but patient needs come first.