Who has to work on Christmas

[solobiker]

Solo: That breaks my heart. You are amazing... I hope you find some way to brighten each of their days.

I will be working overnight Christmas Eve, and Christmas Night. (6pm to 8am both days). Hopefully we won't be too busy (all that Christmas chocolate for the dogs to eat may come to haunt me!). Work has been extremely slow lately -- people that are worried about finances don't go to the ER with their pet unless it's really bad. Our business is WAY down, but I get in some good reading, net surfing and napping. So maybe I'll get to be awake on Christmas Day a bit.

Solo -- you'll be in my thoughts that day. You and all of your residents. That reminds me... I have a bag of stuffed toys I gathered from a huge garage sale we had this summer for breast cancer. Instead of taking them to the good will, I think I'll find some way to get them to the nursing home or hospital for Christmas. They are not new -- do you think that would matter?

It depends upon the nursing home. I know where I have worked they have used stuffed toys as prizes for bingo and other games. The have also tied these animals to their call light strings to make them easier to pull and it looks less institutional.

[roadie gal]

I'm working. I have the p.m. shift. We finally got some snow, so the ER should be hopping. *sigh*

[surgtech1956]

I don't have to work Christmas, this is probably the first time I haven't been on-call in years on Christmas - I'm a Surgical Technologist and being on-call = working. I usually don't mind, since I don't have family.