night from hell

Matt's better today than he was Saturday. He's still sad. And, yeah, I'm still pissed.
Five day stretch is FINALLY over. I don’t go back until Thursday night.
Last night was a night from hell. With the fire and pitchforks and everything.
Damn chemistry machine broke down. It’s the only one we have. We don’t have a back-up.
I get into the lab and I swear its almost 80 degrees in there. We had fans going, I rechecked all the thermostats and its almost like a sauna. The dimension (chemistry machine) went down because it overheated. We had to cancel some orders and reorder them to send to New Hanover. That was not fun. And then Becky had 2 stat crossmatches to do. I did not stop from 2100-0030. ugh. Beats boredom I guess. I was really really thankful I only had 12 on pickup. Finished that and had to get 2 more down in ICU. Came back, Barbara had finished hers and we chatted. A patient threw up on her while she was getting labs. Ewww. The bad mojo had engulfed the whole lab and its occupants.
I had to make myself remember how to do sed rates on the little machine because I haven’t done them since I was taught. And I did a strep.
Poor Becky. She hasn’t even been with us doing 3rd shift for a month yet and this happens. She's my MLT. She came from New Hanover. Over there its one person per department. Over at Cape Fear, you ARE the lab. All the departments. At night. During the day we have more techs. But at night, its just 2 of us.
I didn’t think my night was ever going to end. Oh. And I had to go back last night and re-stick a patient I had just stuck because we had to send her labs across town and over there they have a different chemistry machine which uses different tubes for certain tests.