With my crazy schedule lately and all the illness in my family, my running has taken a definite nose dive. I’d been doing fairly well with running 15 miles a week, but the past few weeks have been pathetic. The week of 1/21, I only managed to get in 3 miles. The next week, I doubled that for an amazing 6 miles. And so far this week, I’ve run 3.5 miles. I was hoping to run today, but I’m post call and had a pretty rough night so I didn’t make it out the door today. I’ll definitely be able to run tomorrow, but then I’m on call Friday and Sunday, which will be rough. Oh well, I figure anything is better than nothing.
Archive for February, 2008
Stress and sleep
The past week and a half has been totally crazy. I’ve started a new rotation (and not just any new rotation, but pediatric surgery), been on call q2 (on call every 2nd night), been by myself at home because Eddie is visiting his family, AND both my father-in-law and my mother have been in the ICU. They are both doing okay now, but what a crazy week. Apparently all this stress (and sleep deprivation) has made me just a little bit tired because I got home yesterday from being on call at around 8:30 am, went to sleep around 9 am, woke up at 5 pm, fell back asleep on the couch at 7 pm, woke up (very confused) at 3 am, went back to sleep around 4 am, and woke up at 9 am this morning. That means I slept for 21 of 24 hours. Pretty impressive, even for me.
