This weather is truly fantastic, I’m so glad I don’t work again for a few days. Thursday was a pretty exciting work day thanks to my patient with blood glucose levels vacillating between 480 and 37. The twelve hours flew by so quickly I hardly found time to eat everything I packed. Kinda in love with these organic dried mangos. I used to snack on them all the time, but then I forgot about them. My sweet tooth is very much into dried fruit, and even though the mango looks like raw cattle hide,… Read more >
Elise
January 21, 2011
cereal, chocolate, dried mixed fruit, granola, lentils, millet, oatmeal, pretzels, spinach salad, veggie burger
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I worked Monday and Tuesday. This means that I’m now playing catch up in life and on the blog. Being out of town this weekend meant that my pre-work food prep was minimal. However, Kyle and I stopped on the way home from San Clemente for a huge grocery shopping trip, so it wasn’t a complete scavenger hunt. For breakfast I mixed up my normal oat routine by adding in wheat bran. Also in the mix was a chopped up baby yellow delicious apple, cinnamon, stevia, and raisins. The wheat bran didn’t change much in… Read more >
Elise
January 19, 2011
almonds, Alvarado Street bread, big salad, cereal, granola, greek yogurt, nutbutter, nuts, oatmeal, quinoa, root veggies, spinach salad
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I just found out it’s a holiday weekend. Who knew? Hospitals obviously don’t shut down and so I work Monday, but I still made the most of this weekend. The PACKERS win was clearly a highlight. Who would have known a kid from Chico would be the next big thing?!? Love it. Congrats Aaron. 🙂 We also celebrated a friend’s birthday with a night on the town. Dinner was at the ridiculously expen$ive Boa Steakhouse. Seriously. So. Expensive. I was nervous about the vegan options on the menu after calling beforehand and discovering it was… Read more >
Elise
January 16, 2011
oatmeal, peanut butter, pitas, veggie burger
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I’m happy to report Thursday’s shift was MUCH better than Wednesday’s. I had the same patients, but they were much more stable after the previous day’s shenanigans. I actually prefer having the same patients regardless of how sick they are because there’s a level of familiarity for both me and the patient. Plus, continuity of care minimizes the chances that stuff will get lost in communication between other care givers, and it’s nice to develop a rapport with them as well as a routine. Speaking of routines. I packed up my goods, as per usual…. Read more >
Elise
January 14, 2011
butternut squash, cereal, chocolate, nutbutter, nuts, oatmeal, quinoa
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Today was insane but I’m too drained to go into very much detail about it. It’s a miracle I made it out of this past shift alive, and even more amazing that all my patients did too. They were circling (the drain), and I wasn’t having it. As soon as I finally thought I had solved one problem, another (even bigger one) arose. It was 100% one of those days. How can you be FOUR hours behind just ONE hour into a shift? It’s puzzling, but I actually think I managed to find a wormhole… Read more >
Elise
January 13, 2011
butternut squash, oatmeal, peanut butter, quinoa
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