How much call do you take? How much is to much?

So to preface, I'm a nurse newer (1 year) to the OR. I have worked as a cardiac tele nurse for about 5 years before switching. I took a job to circulate and specialize in the heart room. The facility I work in is small, 6 rooms with a hybrid heart/cath lab.

When I interviewed for the job I was told that I would have a lot of call, which turned out to be 3, at the most 4 days a week. Which I was fine with. My call consisted of only heart cases.

We have a team consisting of 3 heart specialized nurses that only take heart call, another 3 general OR nurses that pick up heart and general call, and 2 more general OR nurses that only take general call. For heart call they always want 2 nurses available for a case.

The beginning of summer one of the general OR nurses that also took heart call had a baby and went on leave. This left only 6 nurses in our OR to take call. It was decided that only the 3 heart room specialized nurses could take heart call while the other 3 nurses would take general. With it being required to have 2 nurses on for hearts at any time, we were on call for at the very least 22 days out of the month. This, I was told was temporary. I was still OK with it since I have really come to love working in the OR.

This amount of call destroyed my summer. Even on my days off I was usually on call. Which meant that I couldn't really go anywhere. Plus no occasional adult beverages for me. No impromptu trips.

Now the nurse is back from maternity leave but not much has changed. We are taking a little less call. Next month only 19 days, no no full weekends off. Now we are also being used as a second team for vascular surgery if they run late. We have a vascular surgeon (great guy and surgeon) that sometimes can't start cases until afternoon, these cases can run 10+ hours. Now we are told that since we are on call to come in late for these cases so that we can stay late for them. Which staying late is OK. I'm on call so I expect it but we are not getting out call pay since we are coming in late.

From what I understand general call only takes 1-2 days of call a week and only 1 weekend a month.

I am wondering what other RNs call schedule is, especially RNs in specialized areas.

As much as I love being an OR nurse, my coworkers, and physicians I work with daily I also love having a life outside of they hospital. Since this is my first position in OR I am wondering if this is the norm.

I really don't want to leave the OR but if this is how it is I might have to.

Thank you for any feedback, I am at a loss for what to do.