Infants, toddlers and some mush

 I was a bit skeptical about working with infants….the little ones scare me.

 I have some distant memory of night float two weeks ago. I recall the nights were full of admissions. I recall having somewhere between 7 and 8 patients every single day this week. I recall being happy to go to work every day. I recall getting back home really exhausted, with a smile on my face.

It is not that I have not felt overwhelmed because I have. I have felt silly, had moments of sadness, felt really stressed out but….  I have enjoyed working with each person in a different way. J and K were awesome seniors during night float oh and M……oh M…I just found myself thinking how lucky can one get on night float. I was truly reluctant to end night float. I had absolutely no envy for the day team.

I was blown away the following week. Working with JL was a pleasant experience, I was sad to see her leave, then H came along and I fell “in work love” with her… straight to the point.

This week I had I and M, the cartoon characters, incomplete words, special languages with meanings lost to me and I dare say most of mankind and a little spice of J midweek. I laughed so hard a lot of times, a few times I felt like crying but never felt useless or like a complete idiot.

I guess this is my long-winded way of saying I (loved)⁴ my team. I really don’t know how or what they felt about working with me but the past 3 weeks have undoubtedly been my happiest in residency.

Enough of all this mushy talk…..I need to go pick up my darling husband from the train station and get some well-deserved sleep!!