It's been a quietly busy week, the best kind there is in this job. The elementary schools have had minimum days all week for parent-teacher conferences, and without recess and lunch, the chaos of a day is considerably reduced through the lack of ice pack requests and the fact that my diabetics go home before their insulin is due. On top of that, today was a rainy day, and rainy day recess slashes the first aid work to nearly nothing. Though Time Bomb diabetic has been passed off to another nurse, I was at the school anyway on Wednesday, and said I'd take care of her. She checked her blood sugar before breakfast, ate breakfast, and then came to my office afterward to do her insulin and...wait for it...check her blood sugar again. There are only so many times I can explain the concept of diabetes to someone, and despite my best efforts, she didn't understand why I was basing her insulin dose off of her pre-breakfast blood sugar instead of the one she was showing me in my office. This incident is why she essentially has her own nurse these days, leaving me to thank my lucky stars that I'm normally too busy with my two elementary diabetics, including one that steals bananas for me from the cafeteria, to have Time Bomb.
'Tis the season to be off: after a four day week this week, we have all next week off, and then winter break is rapidly approaching after that. Happy Thanksgiving!
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