At base, I love my job. However, I dread going today because I am tired and busy. I had a dream so weird that I wonder if I have deep-seated psychic burnout:
My patient died, but I was told not to perform postmortem care because the doc was going to do an immediate autopsy. So I did nothing. No doc showed. The patient lay there getting stinkier and stinker. A day or so later an earthworm crawled out of her mouth. I opened her mouth to get the worm, and a giant turtle crawled out. This grossed me out. I tried to get rid of both creatures, but they were liking their nice warm digs. This caused me to run get the doc and insist on immediate tying up of affairs, and he came in the room. While we were talking, the lady sat up in bed. I thought, “Argh, I heard they did that.” Then she repeatedly lay down and sat up…corpsely sit-ups. The doc walked over and she grabbed his arm while she was doing the sit-ups. He gently pushed her down, apparently not freaked out by this unusual behavior, which I was finding distinctly creepy, and when she was still he leaned over and kissed her forehead.
Bah. I usually don’t HAVE dreams like that. I usually don’t dream at all because I’m too tired, actually, so that’s not much of a claim…but seriously, I hope none of my patients die today. I obviously always hope that, but today I am actively dreading the possibility. And if any patient dies and starts doing sit-ups, I’m certain I will faint dead away on the spot. I’ve had one grab my arm before, and that was enough to nearly cause me to have an accident in my pants. Eek!!
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