busy bee

work has been a blur of activity... it's that time of year where a number of things happen at once: end of fiscal year stuff, start of new fiscal year stuff, new and visiting residents starting = volumes pick up, which is a domino effect of its own.  so in other words, yeah, it's busy.

add to that a number of projects, test plans, meeting after meeting in preparation for a whole new EHR... and yeah, you can call it crazy busy.

the kind of busy where i don't realize it's afternoon until i glance down at the clock.  the kind of busy where i somehow find myself in 7 hours of meetings with literally 9 minutes to gobble down lunch in between, stuffing my face with one hand while jotting down notes in the other.  the kind of busy where i don't get up to pee until i absolutely can not hold it any longer.  the kind of busy where i've lost track of what day it is, and then realize it's already... thursday?  the kind of busy where i work straight through 10 hours, come home, get paged after 11:30 p.m. just as i'm starting to unwind, and am now blogging after 1 a.m. because i'm waiting for a stat report to be completed.

but busy is good.  busy is what always makes me feel like myself again, the person who throws herself into work and isn't all that bothered by having to be on-call or feeling somewhat... needed.  essential.  productive.  busy, i've found, can be rather healing.

(especially following a week of being not-so-busy - per doctor's orders).