I know it’s been a long while since I have written in my blog. I last wrote during covid and while the pandemic is basically over and COVID has become basically endemic my life has changed a lot since that time.

I was tested for COVID a total of 67 times. The job I had during my last entry is not the same job I have now. I voluntarily left that job after three years. I left as a supervisor of 6 months. It got too bad. Staffing was a major issue. People constantly being mandated. That means that you would work your shift of 8 hours and then someone wouldn’t show up so you would be forced to stay for another 8 hours. And when i was working there I was a 3-11 (third watch in first responder), so working another 8 hours OVERNIGHT was a total bitch and so hard to do. I always feared that I would make a mistake. As a supervisor I would have to find staffing and that was difficult because no one wanted to work extra (who could blame them they were already working 40 hours a week for peanuts and were tired. Nurses and CNA’s. I’ve heard things are still bad over there from people who still work there just biding their time until retirement.

I changed jobs in December 2020 and went back to work at a hospital. I work on a PCU now. About a month into my tenure there I got sick. The 67th time I got tested for COVID I had to go to a drive up testing at the place where I work. COVID was miserable. I was out for five days and by the forth day my lungs were so junky and it was difficult to breathe. I was able to get medication from my doctors (antibiotics and Steroids) but I was not 100% when I went back to work. I got the first two shots of N-Biotech COVID vaccine, but I still will not get any boosters. Sorry not sorry but I do not trust the mRNA based vaccines. I have had no adverse reactions that I am aware of but something in me just doesn’t trust it.

So I’ve been at the hospital for a year and nearly 5 months. It’s okay. Somedays it’s very stressful and ever revolving door of patients. Edicts from the higher ups to get people out. As a nurse I do not make the decisions as to who goes home and who does not. I do not feel comfortable telling a doctor that my boss says that X patient needs to discharge today. I guess people are staying too long or something. We do the best we can. I understand why they do what they do but it doesn’t feel great on a personal level. My co workers are great though.

Our hens are laying like gangbusters. We went a few months without an egg laid at all. We were using Purina made 16% food for laying hens and we thought, Were the rumors true? Were they putting something in the food for the hens to stop laying? The answer to that is no. The week we bought a new bag of feed not made by purina and before we opened the bag they started laying again. Now were currently have 4 dozen eggs sitting on our counter top.

Recently we went to a local production of Sunset Blvd, which was very good. Again, like with Phantom of the Opera, I knew the music well. I was not disappointed like I was with Phantom. I had built up the show in my head through the music that it didn’t meet my expectations. Sunset BLVD was wonderful.

Gotta run.