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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsGod, I'm tired. I could use some Lounge vibes. I love you all...
Every morning, I log on to my schedule, look at the long list, and do a facepalm. This is after waking up tired from the day before.
I found out yesterday that providers over at the mainstream clinic are seeing as few as eight patients a day, while we're slammed over here, just because we're the red-headed stepclinic. "Ah, just send 'em over to the homeless clinic. Overflow is what they're there for". (No, we fucking-well are NOT!)
The pediatricians are keeping banker's hours over there, while I see pedes patients here in what is essentially an adult medicine clinic. I think they could return the favor a little, seeing as it's an international pandemic.
Week after next, I have off. I just need the strength to make it until then...
lark
(23,006 posts)Thank you for everything you do to help folks that need it so badly
catbyte
(34,174 posts)Hang in there--you're keeping people alive and that is nobler than just about anything on the planet.
Take care--we love you.
I think I crossed the burnout border a couple of years ago. Right now, I'm going on sheer bloodymindedness.
You know, it's a little crazy, but I think my burnout might be easier to deal with if we had a different President...
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...is a major energy drain.
My recent 10 week furlough showed me that I need not dread retirement like I used to think I would. The only part of my job I still enjoy unreservedly is well baby and young child care. A day of teenagers leaves me feeling like I've been run over by a truck.
I've reached a point where I need life to be simpler not harder, and COVID-19 certainly isn't doing that. Also, finally, at age 69, I've come to the point where I realize that if I am only doing something because it pleases someone else and I do not enjoy it, I will probably not do it well - my altruism well has run dry.
Next June would mark 25 years in my present job, and I would have taken a certain pride in that. Now, I'm not sure it's worth it.
I feel for you, Aristus.
Freedomofspeech
(4,218 posts)Sending you love and peace.
UpInArms
(51,253 posts)I hope you have relief soon ...
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Wish it didn't have to be so hard - and dangerous.
love_katz
(2,562 posts)I wish I could bottle my sleep and send it to you.