Charlie is doing great! Even though he has a splint, he’s been bounding around the house. We haven’t been able to convince him that he’s hurt and needs to REST! We went to our vet today to have the splilnt changed (it is now bright yellow…she promised we could have purple next time), and she gave us some advice on curbing his activity. So, we have him on his lead at all times…he’s either attached to the coffee table or one of our belts. And it’s working! He can no longer fly up and down the hallway or chase after us, or practice trying to get up on the couch.

But the real bonus is that it will help us with house training. We will be able to keep an eye on him at all times. No more sneaking down the hallway to go pee!

We actually took him to puppy playtime on Friday. We were worried about him playing too hard (puppy playtime is all about the puppies running around and play fighting), but we knew that the gentlemen that runs it is a vet and would be able to give us advice. Our plan was to keep him on a lead and just hold him back, letting dogs come to him. He suggested letting him walk around socializing, and only holding him back if he gets out of control.

For most of the time he just hid behind my legs (apparently this is the norm for the first couple times). However, he started to interact and play with dogs in the last ten minutes. He didn’t start playing too hard, but I could tell he wanted to. I can’t wait until his splint is off and he can go full throttle!!!

On top of everything, the vet found a lovely (yet massive) yeast infection in his ear. So, we get to put drops in his ear twice a day! Puppies sure are a handful!!! Not to mention expensive.

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My day shifts on Thurs/Friday were chaos! Thursday I walked into a mess. One of my patients was receiving hefty blood transfusions and had a surgical dressing that was saturated despite being reinforced, changed, and reinforced again. The second patient had dimentia and was agitated all night and needed to be transferred to a stretcher, then it was discovered that many of his meds had duplicate/conflicting orders that needed to be organized. My third patient’s meds (about a dozen meds) had been ordered, but not scheduled, so the pharmacy hadn’t sent any up to the unit, and my fourth patient was having pain control issues that hadn’t been resolved.

I just took a deep breath, dug in, and organized! I worked my ass off and by noon, everything was fixed, solved, and settled. I was very proud of myself for taking on an enormous chunk of chaos and fixed it!

Friday, I was sure it would be a good day. I had done so well organizing my patients care the day before that I knew it would be a much better day….wrong.

It started out by finding the dimentia patient on the floor, flat on his back, and covered in blood from all the IVs that were pulled out. He had fallen while trying to get to the bathroom. *deep breath* and called for help! Another patient had a complex discharge that needed to be organized…and on and on and on. Again, I dug in, worked my ass off, and organized everything.

I’m proud of the work I did this week (Sean gives himself a pat on the back).

And now, it’s back to night shifts for two weeks. YAY!