A Day in my Life

Happy July!  Here's how the first day of the month went for me.

It was a Monday, so I was up early and off to work.

On my way to work, a beautiful morning, but only 43 degrees!  That's really cool for July.

Pretty little pond along the way.

I come in earlier than the others to open the office and take any early emergency calls.  I turned my little calendar to a new page.  I started the day with several calls from the after hours service.
We have 6 nurses on most days, on this day one was on vacation so it was busy.  We all answer phones and all have different jobs assigned to us. My job on this day was the in-basket.  This is where all lab notifications come into, we call and notify families of results and any new orders. This is also where notifications come from all of our doctors and nurse practitioners. They send us orders for referrals and anything else they need done for a patient.  Our providers aren't usually in the office, they are in facilities seeing patients, so their requests come over the computer.  I get to talk to lots of nice patients, family members, other offices - and occasionally a grumpy person too.  :)  Our office is a geriatric practice and I so enjoy talking to our older patients, many in nursing facilities.  Most of them are a joy!

In the middle of the morning, I had to go have an ultrasound done.  This place isn't far from my office and my supervisors are very nice about things like this.  I've been having some stomach issues and they were checking things out.  I was only gone for 45 minutes!

These were our visitors outside the window on this day:

A mama and young woodchuck that we see nearly every day.

One of the deer that visits us.

Our acrobat squirrel came to say hello.

In the middle of the afternoon, my doctors office called, said they had the results of the ultrasound and I have gallstones and will need a surgical consult.  So, that's good news - they found the cause and it's not serious!

I left work about 4:45.  It was very nice, the temp was 73 degrees.

We had an easy supper, a grilled panini sandwich.  I had turkey and bacon, Bob had ham, turkey and bacon. Yum!

We usually wander through the back yard to see what's blooming.  This is a new bed Bob put in this Spring so it's still being filled, but the red flowers in front are called Crocosmia's and we're so happy to see them blooming!

I got my first tomato!

Bob had to go to a meeting at church, I enjoyed a little time on the porch.

Then I finally got to putting out a few things around the house for the 4th.  This shelf is in our living room. I was pretty late this year but better late than never, right?

After that I relaxed, caught up on the computer and did some reading.  Bob was home shortly after 9.  Short meetings are good.  :)

It was a good day at work, the report from the doctor was good and I had a nice evening.  I'm blessed!