As I mentioned last week, I've been helping out The Man in his office. Today was the first day the kids and I were there just as long as The Man. Since The Man's office is in just one corner of a very large, mostly vacant space, S and J enjoyed having the unused area to fly paper airplanes. G and Goldilocks loves spinning around on the doctor stools. Sacagawea spent most of the afternoon sitting in the sunny new schoolroom crocheting. We have that one room in the building set up with a table and chairs for the older kids to use when we start school next week.
Since the office is only 2 miles from our house, we just zipped home for
a lunch of vegetable soup hot from the crockpot. J and Goldilocks stayed home in
the afternoon so she could get her nap and the rest of us returned to
the office.
The Man graciously offered his arm to help me learn to draw blood, but since I can't seem to get the hang of taking blood pressures, I'm not sure I'm ready to poke people.
At least for the next week or so I think I'll stick (pun intended) to answering phones, faxing, scanning, learning the ins and outs of his emr software, and figuring out what to do with the windows in the exam rooms. The paper towels he hung up to cover the windows last February are shrinking, so I think it is time for something a bit more (what's the word I'm looking for here??) appropriate. Yes, that's a good word. Appropriate.
I've also spent quite a bit of my "spare" time cleaning the office and surrounding area. I cleaned some things a bit too well.
"Where's the sticker that was here on the window?" The Man asked me this afternoon.
"I peeled it off and threw it away yesterday when I washed the windows."
"Find it and put it back."
"Are you serious?"
"Yes."
As I dug through the trash and found (Yay!) the sticker, The Man explained that it was the bar code the courier scans when she picks up lab specimens and NOT a price/product sticker that someone failed to remove when the window was installed. Oops! Since I had carefully folded it over onto itself so it wouldn't stick to the wastebasket, it was still nice and clean and stuck back to the window. The lab courier confirmed for me that it still did its job!
3 comments:
Been catching up on your posts. Life is eventful~I can see~ The greenstick fractures, new school year, new jobs...exciting!
I think I've got it. The large hall (use to be store...) is for flying airplanes; and that room across from the "waiting room" you fixed up for a classroom. Sounds like you're all keeping busy. I believe the children said school begins after Labor Day Sounds like everyone is keeping busy, and mostly out of trouble.
Lol...the sticker part. Who would have thought?? I'm with you on this one. I'd have scraped it off too, just for fun...razor blades are a fun cleaning tool. I'm not too keen on the pricks either. I used to have to give shots when I worked as a MA and I hated it. I would beg someone else to do those patients for me!! I would real out in a sweat and start shaking every time. Nevermind my heart rate, I couldn't hardly hear over it.
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