Stupid is as stupid does...

Pretty exciting stuff around here this gloomy, overcast Saturday afternoon...I'm catching up on emails, the checkbook and laundry. I just put 'All the Pretty Horses' in the VCR. I actually like doing laundry...you feel a sense of accomplishment when everything smells fresh & clean...folded & put away. I hate ironing however, and the shirts from last week are still hanging in the laundry room waiting. There is a variety of other things I could be doing, just haven't found the get up & go to do them! I worked yesterday...It was a challenging day to say the least. My patients' mother {crazy b****} was asking for a new nurse by noon. This sort of thing rarely ever happens to me and it really bugs me...people can be so difficult & stupid sometimes! The day before she had tried to manipulate me by asking to hold her baby not even an hour after the doctor had specifically told her that she couldn't. Sometimes our families are like toddlers...if Daddy tells you no, the answer is no...don't go asking Mommy. I asked her multiple times if she had questions & of course she did not. With regards to getting a new nurse... I told my friend Sandy that I was like a birthday gift....you may not have wanted me, but now that you have me, your stuck with me!!! HA! By mid afternoon her pansy little husband had gone to the charge nurse and I was fed up with them and their line of bull...so I confronted her by asking if there was a problem between us? She answers "I don't know, is there?" in a real snotty tone... I say: well, I know that you have asked for a new nurse, why is that? She informed me that I was "curt" and did not answer her questions...well then! I am not a mind reader and if you are unable to formulate intelligent questions, this is not my problem. Let me just say this...I enjoy my job, I love to teach about premature babies, disease processes, ventilators, therapies, feedings and the like. I love to do these things with people who are interested, people who will listen & learn. I will spend hours teaching when I feel that what I am saying is being heard & appreciated. I think I smoothed things over, however I have no plans on caring for their baby ever again...sad. This is baby #5 and the cycle of stupidity continues. I wish stupidity was painful....then maybe there would be less of it. OK, I'm off the soap box now....sorry. Hey Liz....I let it flow, how was that??? LOL