{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-21T03:28:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T10:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-02-26T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T21:56:47","slug":"no-one-should-be-up-at-this-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/no-one-should-be-up-at-this-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"No one should be up at this hour…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anyone is paying attention to the timestamp on this entry, you’ll notice that it is just past 3AM here in St. Louis as I sit in the resident’s room on the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center Labor and Delivery Unit. I am nearly done with my week of nights here (working 7pm to 7am) and it has been…hmm.. what is the appropriate adjective to finish this sentence?<\/p>\n

Awesome? It has definitely been that – I’ve seen vaginal births, cesarean births, emergency cesareans, twin births… I’ve gotten to deliver a placenta and co-deliver a baby. It has definitely been awesome.<\/p>\n

Exhausting? That it has been as well. Working nights throws off everything about my internal schedule. All I do is work and sleep – because once I get home (by about 8-8:30am) I have to go straight to bed to get my 7-8 hours of sleep before I get up and head right back to the hospital. When I’m working days I can at least watch some TV… have a meal… spend some time with AJ… or at least relax a little before I sleep, but I just can’t find the time to do that right now. At least I only have 1 more night after this one.<\/p>\n

Confusing? A little, yes. I really like OB and one of the chief residents here is laying it on thick about how good I would be as an OB – how I really "get" the surgery aspects and how she thinks I would excel in something surgical. I haven’t given up my pediatrics ambitions (and I don’t think I will), but this is the first rotation that has given me a reason to stop and think about what I want to do with my life as a doctor. The residency is longer, the hours would be worse… but would I like it more?<\/p>\n

Anyway – tonight has been pretty slow, giving me time to catch up on reading and try to study a little for a quiz I have in the morning (read: at the end of this 12 hour shift when I have to go back to school – without sleeping first – and take a quiz and attend 4 hours of lecture). I will be sad when my 2 weeks on labor and delivery is over, but it will be nice to sleep again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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