A Nurse's Snow Day

I'm guessing 99% of you have been enjoying tolerating these snow & ice days the past few weeks. (If you're in the lucky 1% that has sun & a beach, we are not friends right now. Actually, can we be best friends and I come visit you, stat? #Kthanks.) But unlike most of you, I don't get to enjoy said snow. Instead I'm offered a hospital bed before and after the bad weather days to lock me in the hospital forever ensure I'm able to work on my scheduled days. Luckily, this time around I was able to skip out on the slumber party with patients, but had to brave the cold each day instead.

These are a few of my thoughts as I'm going to work in the 5 degree temps lately. And yes, I know my 5 degrees is mild compared to my Northern friends. It's all the same once it's less than 30 though, right?

"Why do they make the nurses park so far from the hospital? It's torture." 
Sometimes I feel like they sit around and think, this parking garage is 10 miles away? Nurses can park there! It will surely improve nurse satisfaction. 

Okay maybe that's an exaggeration. But it certainly seems that way every where I've worked. 

"These shoes just might lead to my death." 

Danskos (aka ugly clogs that literally save my feet and back from falling apart after 12 hours) provide no traction in snow and ice. None. They can be pretty tricky to walk in on a regular basis. Tripping over the floor for no reason is a common occurrence. Add some ice and a mile walk into work- you're basically doomed. 

"Why didn't I buy a warmer jacket?"

Oh right, because I moved back to the south. It's supposed to be spring by now!

"Great, now I can't feel my legs. Or any other part of my body."

Scrubs are the least warm clothing in the history of ever. It's pretty much like walking around naked in the 'feels like -5 degree temps,' but at least I still have my dignity. Until I fall from said shoes above.  

"My eyes are watering and the tears are freezing. Now I can barely see."

This will really help the whole walking on ice bit.

"I feel like a turtle trying to hide in my jacket."

"When's the next flight out to somewhere warm?" 

Oh that's right, there are none because everything is shut down from the ice. Except the hospital of course. 

Any of my nurse friends agree with me here?? And for the record, I made it to and from work safely each day, dignity in tact. Now can it just be spring already?? I'm over the cold.