Ugh, I just don’t have the patience right now

March 11, 2026

Last night was a rough night. Not work, but physically; though the group error at work could have a little to do with it. I was more than just nauseated through most of work and as I sat down to work on this installment, I remembered that it was right about the time that I discovered the error that forced me to wake up a team manager on the east coast.

I doubt that I woke up my manager. As I’ve mentioned before they work not only their job but do the same work alongside my colleagues during the day. They’re working 15-18 hour days! It was right around 10pm when I messaged them saying that I’d discovered an issue and they responded within minutes.

Because of my overnight hours, I try to be cognizant of the field teams’ sleep; they could need to be at one of their local hospitals by 6am or earlier. My overnight process differs in that I email and text trying hard to not wake them too much so they’re unable to go back to sleep. Thankfully, the team manager answered via email relatively quickly and it wasn’t as much of an issue to them as it was to me. It’s just a jolt to the system and my system has been jolted far too many times lately.

One night while doom scrolling I saw a reel on Facebook that showed you can dictate a note directly into Notepad by using CNTL+H. It doesn’t work on a Chromebook, unfortunately because there is no “Notepad” app so I guess it won’t work for me. Something funny here though, I was a medical transcriptionist and we, as a group, have been worried about these kinds of apps taking our jobs and here I am looking to use one.

Since I’m just 5 days from surgery, I don’t expect to be hearing anything new from the current surgery team which means the blog will likely be “light” on content. I am still waiting to hear from the radiation oncologist to set up however long my radiation treatments should/will be but I doubt I’ll hear from them until surgery is done.

I feel like a broken record here – this whole process has been a hurry up and wait approach. Sure, yes, everything has gone quickly as a whole; quite a dichotomy compared to how the medical field usually works in terms of speed. But I suppose, as a whole, everything is a hurry up and wait proposition especially in medicine.