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I'm loving being a nurse.

This job, though! We are a small clinic in a small county jail. We're open 12 hours a day, seven days a week. There are two full-time nurses who work 3 days a week, and one part time nurse who works one day here and one day at the downtown jail.

Except that the other full-time nurse got pneumonia so bad that she ended up in the hospital and had to get prednisone, which sent her into irregular heart rhythm, and now she's not coming back. I've been working about 65hrs/wk for the last two weeks, and have another three to four weeks, I think. They need to hire someone, and then train them for at least a week...

So very tired. It's an hour drive. I get up at 5am, leave the house at 5:45, get to work at about 6:45am, leave anywhere between 7pm to 9pm, get home somewhere between 8pm and 10pm and fall into bed. Day is done.

Uffdah. I just need to hang on. In the mean time, there's a story rattling 'round my head.