Exhaustion: A History | 
I‘m off today after working three 12-hour shifts in the psych emergency department. Wow! I haven‘t worked worked in forever. My brain is mush.
Plans: Catch up on #HashtagBrigade (@BreakingMadRead), therapy, finish the Suicide House, cuddle with babies, trash TV (not sure what's on the docket), and move just enough so that Lobster doesn't think I'm dead and eats my earlobes.
#FillYourCupFriday #SelfCareIsNotSelfish
Working around the clock to keep up with distilling the constant communication from the CDC and DPH into critical information and advisories for our hospital community as our inpatient census continues to climb daily. Hubby on frontline as a firefighter/EMT, working with dwindling supplies of PPE. Not sure how much more of this either of us can take. It‘s only been a month here in Connecticut, but it feels like 12 years. 🥺
Everyone is sick and I'm losing my mind, I barely have any reading time. Not even sleep time 😰😰
For the last year, I have been experiencing symptoms of extreme exhaustion. I constantly feel tired, I feel no enthusiasm for a job I used to love, I‘ve suffered depression and recently burst into tears in front of a co-worker, I get distracted easily and forget things (which I have never, EVER done before), I‘ve struggled with aphasia, and while I‘ve always been a tad anxious, my anxiety has become physically painful.
Please indulge me for a few days. I've so missed having a pup.
Literally me after being an unwitting cohost to my son's birthday party. I had fun with great people, but, God, was it taxing. Too much socializing. I may not even have much energy left to read and that bums me out. Going to try and get some done before I pass out.
It has been a long week. We're embarking on a 3+ year project and we're deep into the storming of the forming, storming, and norming process. You know, the point where you think the project will be one giant storm that will never end yet will never just flat out kill you. I've had my moments, but I've survived. I've never been so happy for the weekend. 💤
