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While you were sleeping.....
Apr. 7th, 2013 05:11 pmThis has been an odd week with some strange dreams.
Just past midnight in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the call came from my patient that was due on Thursday. Aliyah was not going to wait until the 4th and so I had them come to L&D. Given that this was her first, I tried to do the sensible thing and go back to sleep, not that I do that all that well when someone is laboring. I was rewarded with a vividly real nightmare of another patient who I have taken care of through two previous pregnancies (and more importantly, someone who is NOT currently with child), who, in my dream, was 7 months along into an extrauterine pregnancy, something quite rare and extraordinarily dangerous. To add insult to injury, she had a plastic viewing screen implanted into her abdominal wall, which allowed you to actually see said 7 month fetus floating there amidst her vital organs. The screen was rather precariously attached to boot. I was quite grateful to have L&D actually call me at 4 am and pull me out of this nightmare. I think the RN was rather puzzled to have me thank her so profusely for calling.
There have been a couple of other odd dreams since, but none quite so vivid.
Now this morning I awoke at 5 and toddled off to the bathroom, only to find something blackish-brown and quite dead, underneath the sink. Mighty hunter was fast asleep on top of my chest of drawers. In 5 years, this is his first winged trophy, at least the first he has brought into the house, so I'm not too upset about it. I just hope this small victim was not sitting on a brood. I disposed of the small avian carcass and went back to bed. I still need to vacuum up all the feathers, which were all over the bathroom floor.
Just past midnight in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the call came from my patient that was due on Thursday. Aliyah was not going to wait until the 4th and so I had them come to L&D. Given that this was her first, I tried to do the sensible thing and go back to sleep, not that I do that all that well when someone is laboring. I was rewarded with a vividly real nightmare of another patient who I have taken care of through two previous pregnancies (and more importantly, someone who is NOT currently with child), who, in my dream, was 7 months along into an extrauterine pregnancy, something quite rare and extraordinarily dangerous. To add insult to injury, she had a plastic viewing screen implanted into her abdominal wall, which allowed you to actually see said 7 month fetus floating there amidst her vital organs. The screen was rather precariously attached to boot. I was quite grateful to have L&D actually call me at 4 am and pull me out of this nightmare. I think the RN was rather puzzled to have me thank her so profusely for calling.
There have been a couple of other odd dreams since, but none quite so vivid.
Now this morning I awoke at 5 and toddled off to the bathroom, only to find something blackish-brown and quite dead, underneath the sink. Mighty hunter was fast asleep on top of my chest of drawers. In 5 years, this is his first winged trophy, at least the first he has brought into the house, so I'm not too upset about it. I just hope this small victim was not sitting on a brood. I disposed of the small avian carcass and went back to bed. I still need to vacuum up all the feathers, which were all over the bathroom floor.
