don't count your chickens

So guess what---the Heart Failure team was VERY different, but it wasn't as bad as the my colleagues made it out to be. Granted, I've only done it for one day; but I think it's all going to be OK. The new attending is just kind of strange; but rounds only last about 3 hours tops, so one can deal with that. I DO miss my amazing Acute Team, but now whenever I see them they joke around with me and say things like "Are you giving them a hard time?" or "How could you abandon us?!" or "Traitor!" The Attending said the last one! And there is hilarity and value to that too; they liked me. I regain some of them over the weekend, so that is nice. I'm just grateful I got to work with them all, period.

My little patient obviously has heart failure. She is just a wonderful little lady who needs a lot of support. She's been in house for over 2 weeks, and she just wants to go home---but it's heart failure, so we have to monitor her closely, and it's not like she can just walk around a ton either. She's just not completely stable yet, but hopefully she is getting there. Today I got to help her do a lap around the nurse's station while supporting her, and we talked about her family. She even gave me a prayer card, a novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe (she liked that I was Catholic...I mean, I'm a Chreaster at best, but as the Suzer says, I am from a Catholic culture anyway. You don't get rid of that).

The cool part about the heart failure team is that you have time to actually go talk to the patient. I feel bad today though, I was supposed to see my other younger and pretty anxious patient before I left too, but her family was there and talking to a different team at the time, and then I didn't go back because I'd gotten sidestracked by a meeting. I got all the way home and wanted to kick myself because I hadn't stopped back to see her as I'd planned. Tomorrow I'll just have to stop twice as much, so a collar-popper told me today.

Another day tomorrow!