Sunday, July 13, 2008

Stressed!!!

I am so glad this week is ending! This was my second week in a row on call and I am burnt out. I have barely gotten any sleep the past two weeks and I am exhausted. I have been working since 8am this morning and I still have one tech on site (2am) and another one that will go on site at 4am in Hawaii. I cant lay down because I will miss the call, and I am extremely upset because I will most likely be missing church tomorrow. The on call weeks have been way to much for one person to handle anymore. I tried to talk to my boss about it, but it was pretty much blown off. She basically told me that we need to not have a life the weeks we are on call, that we must plan only to eat, sleep and work. That's the thing, I haven't sleep because calls are coming in like crazy through out the night and tracking dispatches late at night and early morning. As far as eating.... 5pm today was the first chance I got to eat today and actually I shouldn't have stopped because I had 3 emergencies I needed to schedule and 3 off site notes to send and 1 work order I needed to make. So it's pretty much just work on my on call weeks! I am feeling so overwhelmed with the tons of extra hours. It bothers me that I cant even have a conversation with my husband. Every time he calls me, I cant talk because I have to schedule something or I have a tech on site. Even late at night, it is like that. I tried to talk to him tonight around 11:30 and I couldn't get five words out without my phone ringing or emails coming through. I haven't really seen my daughter in 2 weeks other than our morning kisses and hugs, and nightly prayers. I need a vacation and I still have four months to go.... I do have the whole day Friday off this week! I think it is going to be a mother/daughter day! I miss my family, and I know that I am so awful to them when I am on call. I continue to pray and believe that God will provide me with the strength that I need.

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