A Day in my Life; August

 As usual, I have some pictures to show you how the first day of the month went for me.

It was a Monday so I was at work about 8:15 in the morning.

The first thing I did was flip my desk calendar over to a new month, and found pictures of my cuties from the year before.

It was a crazy day, weather wise.  You can't really tell on this picture, but it was just pouring in this photo.

And then, an hour later the sun was shining.  It flipped back and forth like that several times during the day.

At one point, our little twin fawns came to visit.  They are getting bigger!

It was a very busy day.  We usually have 6 nurses working, but on this day - and the whole week, 2 people were off on vacation, so there were only 4.

These are all the faxes and responses I did on that day.
My task for the day was nurse follow up.  That means that I handled all the faxes from facilities reporting things - like falls, follow up on weights or vital signs, concerns or questions on medications.  For each of those things we fill out an encounter in the computer, get the answer back from the physician, then notify the facility or patient of the answer and if this includes medicine orders, I send that order to the pharmacy. This also includes filling out death certificates and getting them back to the funeral home. We also get lots of phone calls, which we take turns answering.
One paper that I had to fill out was inspiring.  This facility has a gym where the people can work out.  They need to have a form filled out by the doctor to say they are safe to do this.  The lady needing this form filled out was 98 years old!  She works out 6 days a week, for 30 minutes each day.  And yes - she was approved.  :)

I left on time, at 5 pm and was trying to make it to the eye doctor to pick up new glasses.  They closed at 6 and I didn't want to be that person walking through the door a few minutes before closing time!

The sun was shining and it was very hot and humid (92 degrees) as I drove home.  I saw these cows along the way, seemingly not bothered by the heat.

I made it to the eye doctor at 5:32!  However, when I tried on the new glasses, we found there was a defect in one side that put a blurry spot in front of me.  So, the glasses are going back and will hopefully be in sometime this week.

When I left the eye doctor, the clouds were coming back out.

Bob had a men's gathering at church that night, which included supper for him.  I picked up a sub for supper, then tried to get a few things done because I knew I had a busy Tuesday and wouldn't have much time to do things around the house.

I've been cleaning out the kids room and I finished sorting their toys and books.

I did a few loads of laundry.

Then I sat and relaxed, looked at bloggs and did some catching up on facebook.

It was another good day!