I just called in and I was supposed to work tomorrow. I checked the schedule and there was plenty of staff. I just feel like I need an extra day off. I can't imagine going in there tomorrow at the crack of dawn and giving my all to care for a bunch of strangers. I'm too tired out. I'm supposed to work Tuesday too, and I'll definitely go then, but I'm just wiped out.
I just got back from a dinner with my Grandma who just got diagnosed with breast cancer 2 weeks ago. I love my Grandma with all my heart. She more or less raised me, since my mother was a single mother and more often than not I was my Grandma's care while I was growing up. We lived in the same house, and as you can imagine we were very close.
Thankfully the cancer is stage I (non-mets). Apparently it is (in the physican's words) "aggressive." She actually caught it because she felt a lump in her breast that turned out to be a calcium deposit, but it turned out that she had another spot that was cancerous (they didn't even catch it during her mammogram a few weeks before - it was completely caught fresh). Her treatment team will be hopefully able to excise the tumor without too much trouble, and she'll be able to skip the radiation/chemo stuff. I'm very happy because I've seen some of the suffering that cancer patients go through (although I'm an orthopedic med-surg nurse and admittedly don't really know much about cancer). Between my Grandma, my wife, and I, we finished an entire bottle of wine over dinner, enjoying ourselves, chatting about our favorite subjects, and talking about life in general. I stayed up way too late and just didn't feel like I'd be able to make it in the morning.
I'm just curious if any of you feel bad about calling in even when you aren't really sick?
No as long as there was adequate staffing-I didn't regret calling in for mental health days one bit.There were times when I simply had nothing left to give,I could not face going in there one more day.I would go in for the next shift feeling 1,000% better.
The Bell Jar
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No as long as there was adequate staffing-I didn't regret calling in for mental health days one bit.There were times when I simply had nothing left to give,I could not face going in there one more day.I would go in for the next shift feeling 1,000% better.