Kitties are continuing to sleep as much as possible, only taking breaks to annoy us or beg for food. Lately the cats have decided that my squashed bladder is not adequate conditioning for poor sleep at night and have taken to maintaining a regular howling vigil outside our bedroom door throughout the night, complete with attempting to dig through the door. We are not amused.
Life updates:
Sabrina came to visit! Best friend from college who is getting a slew of masters degrees at Columbia took the train down from NYC to hang out for the weekend. We had a lovely lazy weekend of catching up, sweltering on the Canal Walk, eating my first attempt at pulled pork (it worked!), meandering through Maymont Park and watching some old episodes of Castle :) I suppose there are some advantages to living on the East Coast if now we're only a train ride away.
Work continues on; I officially am crossing off the days until my last shift on a calendar on the fridge! It seems like lately my mission has been to reduce inappropriate benzo use (mostly Xanax). We have to reconcile the medications for everyone we see - which is a pain but also useful. And I've caught 2 women in their 70s on chronic benzos for sleep aids, which not only is a terrible habit forming medication for sleep but also is on a list of medications that you should not prescribe patients older than 65. Both seemed to be shocked that the meds weren't safe for them, and hopefully the time I spent educating them (of course both times unrelated to the issue that brought them into me in the first place) will amount to something. But ultimately their providers need to be better about their geriatric polypharmacy! And then there was the 20 something year old wanting her chronic xanax refill for her anxiety that she hadn't seen her psychiatrist for in 8 months and just ER hopped for refills. Needless to say she didn't get anymore from me, other than my speech about how inappropriate benzos are for anxiety treatment and how she needs regular care and CBT and sticking to her other meds. Probably failed my customer satisfaction on that one! Also on that note - why do patients feel that lingering in the doorway of their room and looking peeved will make me see them faster? Note to those patients: you came to a walk in clinic and the rooms are all full! Sometimes I have to see the kid with an asthma attack and hypoxia and the elderly man with chest pain that came in after you did, but you came in with a cold so you can wait (also - you're not getting antibiotics for your virus so just give it up now).
Baby Updates:
Baby Laney is officially term at 37 weeks this week (although she needs to stay in until at least 39 weeks for growing, and 40 weeks for me to finish working!). Still an active little thing but running out of room. Had a giant shopping spree on Labor Day - this is what it looks like when you order 25 things from Amazon and they all arrive at once! Not to mention all the other hippy cloth diaper sales I hit, as well as finishing up our Etsy shopping just to round it all out.
Speaking of hippy cloth diapers, I finally did a few loads of baby bedding/clothes in the wash to fully prep things. Baby Laney now has a good supply of onesies, socks, blankets and fresh sheets on her crib and pack-n-play! I also washed our set of newborn cloth diapers to freshen them up from their prior life and they were pretty adorable hanging out to dry. I hope we can keep up with the cloth diaper plan because these are just too adorable to trade for landfill diapers!
I still need to pack my hospital bag and all that jazz, but overall we're feeling pretty ready. Break and bake cookies were on a managers special at the store the other day so we also have a good stash of frozen cookie dough - so I think we are fully prepared. Babies like cookies, right?
