The 15th Floor Overlooking Fenway

For the non medical people, post-call refers to the day after one is on call. In the era of the duty hour regulations, one can only work 30 hours straight, so being post-call now also means not being at the hospital. Some people try to refer to being post-call as having a "day off". Sometimes it is; usually it is not. If you haven't slept and it's the second time on call in 3 days, it's not much of a day off.
I was on call on yesterday which means I went to work at 7:30a (relatively late) yesterday morning and left this morning morning about 7:45a. In that 24 hours I was responsible for my ICU patients, my floor patients, and any surgery consults that came through the ED or from the inpatient floors. It was not all that bad of day, and I even slept for 2 hours (uninterrupted at that) from 2:30 to 4:30a.

I give myself an A+ for today's post-call day.

• slept from 8:30a-1p
  
• ate lunch
  
• dressed (sorta)
  
• went to the Rite Aid
  
• put away some old laundry (including two sets of sheets)
  
• dusted my room (seriously)
  
• ran 6 miles
  
• made pancakes and bacon for dinner (then my husband claimed he doesn't like pancakes)

Not my best 6 miles, as it was plagued by blisters and chafing. It's still chillly here -- I was running outside in January, wasn't I? Just a mildly boring get on the "treadmill and run" run.

I might be a tad behind on my March goal, but as long as I stay/get healthy, I should be okay.