Another day at the station

Let's hope I'm not this stupid on ambo today. This guys gotta make anyone look good!!

I didn't do an update yesterday because nothing really happened to talk about and it's the same today but I'm doing like Tania and making sure I update regularly as it keeps me focused. So unfortunately for you guys it's going to be a boring post of blah! blah! blah! :)

This is my 4th day back 100% ontrack. But it's my first day back at ambo, on track. This poses to be a problem. There are a couple of things I find hard while on station.

• the worst one is that I use the ww online journal to track my food. And the last couple of weeks ww has upgraded to Flashplayer 9 instead of 8. The station computer only has flashplayer 8 and I can't upgrade it until I find someone with admin login to do it. So basically means I can't track by computer while on duty. I can do it manually on paper but I get lazy and don't bother. I guess this one's solved by time, once I get someone to get flashplayer 9 going it will be fine.



• Second issue is my lack of time to eat and drink. Ambulance duty is bizarre in that one day we can be bored silly with nothing to do all day and others I'm run off my feet, often not even getting back to station before the pager goes off again. The amount of adrenalin pumping on these days means I forget to eat and drink. I often leave the station at the end of the day with a massive headache purely from not eating or drinking enough. I try to solve this by carrying with me fruit and a water bottle but when your focus is elsewhere sometimes this doesn't even work. It's not like I'm going to say to a dying patient "hang on a minute on that CPR, I forgot to have my morning tea!!" lol



• Then there's the snack box. For some stupid reason someone decided to get a fully laden, point filled, dripping with saturated fat snack box at the station!!!! I have to stare at it everytime I go to make a coffee! I seem to be the only person on station that is even aware of fat content! I think this one's just a matter of determination.



• Normally I'm not a big coffee drinker. Maybe one coffee every 2 or 3 days, but on station that changes big time. It's all part of the initiation process ... one of the rules "must be big coffee drinker!" ok so maybe not literally but it's not long before the habit consumes you. Coffee in itself isn't a huge thing, but when I'm not drinking enough water either. That combination can mean major fluid retention. And forget the hot water, herbal tea thing ... can't do it!!

I guess I'm being pretty pedantic with these things and really they're not major problems but they do play up with me being on track. Most weeks after not being 100% ontrack at ambo it slips into the next day and the next and before I know it I'm being slack arse again. So I guess in this post I'm trying to make myself aware of what I need to focus on to keep me on track. As they say being aware of a problem is 99% of the way in solving it.

Now just to focus on the 1% of the solution.