Apparently it's hard working in the cath lab these days. Lance has had a terrible week and it started yesterday when I called to ask if he could take my car to be serviced since he gets off of work two hours before me. He told me it was the worst day he's ever had at work and although he didn't go any further into detail then, he looked just miserable! Poor thing! He got home today by about 4 and then was called in again about 5 or 5:30.
It usually takes them about 2 hours to finish up a procedure when they get called in and then one of the on call people has to go back a certain number of hours later to check on the patient and remove a sheath (I have no clue how to spell that word). I thought the second part was a piece-of-cake until Lance told me that the nurses have no clue how to remove these themselves and that after Lance, or the other on call person, removes the sheath they have to give the nurses instructions on how long to apply pressure to keep the person from bleeding to death! This also means that if Lance messes up this procedure, then they either have to call someone from the cath team in, or try to get a doctor up there to help them stop the bleeding! That's some serious stuff!
I know Lance loves his job, but now I really understand why it can be so stressful. People get frustrated when I don't do my job correctly, but no one will die if I mess up and trust me, I am so thankful for that!
I guess we'll be waiting until next weekend to go see the new play being put on in town!
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