Thursday, March 18, 2010

L&D Nights, Spring "Break", Etc...

So, right now I'm on L&D nights. Me and my 2 partners in crime were here at the hospital 13 hrs last night and this morning and did approximately 45 minutes of actual work. Pretty much we waited on ladies to deliver, went in, watched the babies being caught, and then got the glorious task of delivering the placenta. But other than that we checked on them every 2 hrs and wrote a note in the chart. Then at 6:00AM we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to see 5 patients in 45 minutes, write scrips, and fill out notes for said patients. It was a little comical. Mostly because we spent 12 hours pretty much sitting around and then were expected to jump! Right now! Faster!!! Higher!!!

So that's pretty much it for L&D nights. It's boring. I feel like all I do is sit around and get hungry, go eat breakfast food at 2:00AM, and watch the clock.

The upside is that we only have to do this for 2-3 nights because we had a Spring "Break" earlier this week on Monday and Tuesday. Kris and I took advantage of this break and went home and then to Louisiana.

I also found out over the weekend that my youngest sister-in-law is pregnant! Hooray! We're all pretty excited about it. They're going to make a pretty cute baby, plus - let's be honest... It takes the heat off of me for at least another year or two. Right? Right? Please say yes.

Anywho, we spent Sunday celebrating "Easter" since Kris's dad will be offshore when the actual holiday rolls around. I woke up early and had coffee and cinnamon rolls with the in-laws, milled around and helped my MIL cook, then got ready and visited and ate for hours. We had an Easter egg hunt for my niece Caden and the weather was just perfect. It was a great day. Then Kris and I left for The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, LA.



It's a bed and breakfast with a restaurant on site, a little pond, a courtyard, and it just so happens to be one of the most haunted places in America. That's what everyone says anyway. We didn't see any ghosts, but didn't sleep very well either. I think that had more to do with cheap mattresses than any ghostly presence. Here's the story though for those who are interested: Chloe the house slave liked to eavesdrop. Her master got mad and cut her ear off and demoted her to field slave. She had a plan to make the children sick so that he would need her and hire her back as house slave so she baked them a cake which she had flavored with oleander. The children and their mother ate the cake and all 3 died. Chloe was then hung from one of the huge oaks in front of the house and thrown in the Mississippi River.

We stayed in 2 different rooms on our 2 different nights because that's all they had left. We stayed in the main house the first night in a big bedroom upstairs. Hardwood floors, 4 poster bed, high ceilings, the whole kit and caboodle. We found out on the tour the next day that we had stayed in the original children's room. How creepy is that? The next night we stayed in a room that was built right off the Carriage House restaurant. It's not original, but did have a huge clawfoot tub that I enjoyed soaking in. None of the rooms have TVs or radios so it was really quiet and peaceful. Most of the other guests were friendly and let us tour their rooms.

One of the best parts was every morning there was homemade breakfast in the house that was the original main house from the 1700s. Grits, biscuits, sausage gravy, blueberry scones, fresh fruit, eggs, hot coffee, and orange juice. Yum, yum, yum.

On day 2 we toured Afton Villa Gardens.


That's just a picture from the drive in. It was gorgeous. It's a garden centered around this old plantation that burned down in the 1960s I think. They have boxwood hedge mazes and a pond, lots of huge oaks and camelia bushes. We spent about 2 hours touring the grounds for just $5 and we only ran into about 5 other people total. I highly recommend it. (I don't know those people in the picture below... but that's just a little taste of what the place looks like.)



On our drive back Tuesday we passed through Natchez and made a stop to eat at The Castle at Dunleith plantation. We didn't tour any plantations there, but I'm glad we got to eat some good Southern cooking before we got home. It was really, really good.

That's about it! What a long post. I might be driven to post again before the night's over if things don't get any more interesting.

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