The effect of working 7 days (or nights) in a row, with no more than 2 days off in between times, working 3 weekends in a row, means that even less doctors are considering it as a valid career path. This then has the knock on effect of the rota becoming even worse to plug the gaps left by a shortage of staff.
The worse part of working anti social hours are the times when I get home after Andy's left for work, or vice versa. Or like we've been doing this week - him on nights whilst I was doing late shifts, and now I'm on nights for the weekend whilst he does long day shifts. Last time this happened, I saw him Friday morning at 5.30am as he left for work, and saw him again at 6.30am Monday morning as I crawled into bed!
Anyway, enough moaning. I'm lucky to have a job I love that I get paid quite well to do. Even if on a day to day basis I have to deal with at least one person who hasn't thought about taking pain killers before coming to A&E to complain about their aches and pains...
January was invite sending month - the wedding is fast approaching now so we've posted the invites and I've joined Weight Watchers online to shift that stubborn stone. It's going well so far, I've lost half a stone in 3 weeks and I don't really feel hungry. I think only having 2 meals a day is helpful so I can have two decent meals rather than 3 stingy ones.
I'm so pleased with how the invites have turned out, we have had so many compliments for them. We had the insides printed by Ruth at Olive Weddings and she did a beautiful job with them. Andy and I had hours of fun then glueing it all together and making our own stickers to hold them together. Now the invites are done, its time to do place names and a table plan and orders of service.......
Only 113 days to go!
