S.I.C.U. woohoo!

(Surgical Intensive Care Unit)

oh dear. is this going to be a monthly blog? i sure hope not! i used to be able to blog every other day. Well, so much has happened.

About a month ago, i received a phone call from my awesome nurse manager that a full-time, night-shift SICU position just opened. Mind you, i got this news via voicemail, since she called during the day while i was asleep. Thank goodness my hunger woke me up a little past noontime to get the message! Anyway, in her message, she had spoken with the nurse manager in SICU about me and suggested i apply for transfer there, saying it will be a good transition for me. I jumped out of bed and squealed! I had to listen to the message again. Immediately i called her back and told her of my strong interest in transferring... then i caught myself, hoping she didn't interpret my excitement as wanting to leave her unit, 4 Linsky! (I do love my coworkers on 4 Linsky). I let her know that i would certainly apply to transfer, and she warned me to do it as soon as possible, as the postings are only up for a week. What she didn't know was that i was just 1 block away from the hospital! lol i was at Howie's. In a matter of one hour, i went to the nursing office, filled out the form, went to the SICU, spoke with the nurse manager, handed her a copy of my application (she was surprised to see me just minutes after she spoke with my manager. hahaha), then, after several failed & frustrated attempts at faxing it to HR, i actually cabbed it to the HR office in Midtown to personally hand in the paper myself!! *phew! .. then i called back my manager and told her I DID IT! in a matter of a one hour lol.

i crossed my fingers that week...

i made sure i kept busy in order to refrain myself from paranoia and anxiety. Thank goodness that was the weekend of Valentine's and President's Day, when Howie took me on a Long Island expedition hehee (see previous blog) ♥. I even picked up an overtime shift. thank goodness, really! or else i would've gone mad.

Then, that next week, i got another phone call from my manager, of course during the day, and of course while i was sleeping! So i got the GREAT NEWS via voicemail again that my transfer application was approved! I suddenly felt relief, followed by lots of "omg OMG omg omg omg OMG!!!!!" hahaha. i'm going to the SICU! i'm gonna run with the big boys! *pause*...wow.. i don't know anything! oh man, i'm scared.

I guess i must've done something right at work for my manager to go ahead and recommend me to the sicu. I'm amazed she remembered my plan to work there one day--the last and only time i mentioned that was way back during my job interview with her! which is why i think she's so awesome. So my official start date is in two weeks. Orientation will start on DAYS, M-F. My sleeping schedule will totally be out of whack. At least i'll have my weekends off. And the best part is i will finally have the same schedule as Howie, yay! Until then, we're like passing ships. He gets out of work in the evening, and we see each other for literally 30 minutes (out of the whole day!) before i leave for work at 7pm! and i work every other weekend, and even still, on some weekends that i'm off, he'd be ON CALL!! *arrgghh, i really hated it when he's on-call during my weekends off. It got a bit depressing. So our synched scheds is the upside of being on days temporarily.

Although it makes me sad knowing i'll miss my 4L coworkers, i'm looking forward to my big move. Looking at the big picture, this is something i really want and need in order to reach my goals. Besides, in my heart i'll always be an Abilifly sister! heheh that's between me and 4L ;)