Off nights and back onto days!

For the past week, I've been working night on L&D. Working nights is hard to do. Your body gets all wacked out and doesn't know when it should be sleeping or when it should be signaling you to eat. But I made it. I made it through one week of nights. I think I saw Ryan for a total of 30 minutes this past week and that was because he got off work early and made it home just as I was packing up my stuff to head in for the night. Sleeping during the day is difficult. I definitely need to work on getting some black-out curtains for the bedroom so my body somewhat thinks that it's night time when I'm sleeping in the bright light of day. Even though the adjustment to working nights was difficult, there were several things I enjoyed. The hospital is quiet - people are not hustling to get everywhere, etc. But on L&D, nights can get ca-raz-ee! The good thing about that - if it's busy, you're busy and the night goes by fast. If it's slow, you can sleep and then the night goes by fast :) It's all relative, I guess. I'm back working days for this next week and I'm REALLY looking forward to this next weekend as it's my first full weekend off!!! It's going to be awesome but I'm guessing by the end of the week I may look something like this...

Oh Coop, I love you - even if you continue to lay on the couch cushion making it permanently deformed :-)

~Ashley