What a Day

Yesterday was one of those days that is tough to juggle our careers and our kiddo even though we are lucky and it all worked out!

Matt was on child duty since he has had the better hours this month. We knew there was a risk with this because he is on reserve (meaning that he can be called in at any time for someone). And as lucky as Matt is (he has BAD reserve luck) he got called into the emergency room to work a shift. The problem: Matt's shift was until 7pm, my shift until 6:30pm, and the daycare closes at 6pm. Luckily we are in the daycare right across the street which is such a life saver!

So I planned to run across the street quickly around 6pm and grab Lucas and bring him back to work with me. Of course yesterday was the day that I got the call at around 4pm that Lucas (being our little monkey) had tripped and fallen once again and had a big cut on his eyelid. The teachers were having trouble stopping the bleeding and wanted one of us to come check him out and make sure that he didn't need stitches. Matt was actually in clinic at the time with three patients waiting on him before returning to the ED, so I walked to the daycare after I checked in with a colleague and told her that I'd be gone for 15-20 minutes but would be right back. I went to check on Lucas who was doing a bit better. The cut was long and bled easily but was not very deep. Of course as soon as I took my first look at Lucas, my pager went off with the message "Pt X having respiratory distress, not looking good, please come now." My attention was immediately off Lucas (since he was only bleeding but still breathing). I called my colleague to ask her to check on the child and ran back with heels and all. I got back in time, treated the child (he's fine) and had an hour before heading back across the street once more hoping to get no more "we need you now" pages.

Lucas was luckily a sweetheart during my last 45 minutes of work. He likes our resident "library" and spent the time crawling around the floor and entertaining everyone while I worked. If he gets a staph infection we'll know where he got it from. Yucky carpet.

After I got off work, the eye started to bleed again so we stopped by the ER to see Matt. Lucas drew quite some attention in our ED since I carried him in with blood dripping from his eye. The perks to being a resident, one of the attending docs quickly took a look at him, offered to glue it but thought it would heal on its own... so we ended up doing nothing. No we just have a kid where one of my friend's first reaction to seeing him was "who beat him up?"

So ended our day. Kid asleep finally at 8pm.