women can multitask but can you be in 3 places at once??

so today was just a nightmare from hell. It all started with my work pager going off wildly at 7.15am this morning. No I was not at work, I was brushing my teeth ironing a shirt and trying desperately to find the damned thing to turn it off before it woke the whole household! Later I find out it was some nurses up in the 'day procedures unit' ( not my usual workplace) calling just to "warn me" that there were a whole heap of patients being brought in that day for random procedures that 'I' needed to come sort out as nothing had been done for them.( I hate people who call to 'warn me' I am going to have alot of work- i dont think you can quit prepare yourself for it so I would rather be knowledge free and happy and then sprung on, then sulky and still sprung on!!LOL) Cloud hanging over my day number 1. When i got there, the operating theatre also started calling me about a couple of other patients that I needed to sort out, one of whom was a samoan man who was expected at 7am and had not showed up by 8am. this was the phone call I made "Malo, Miriama??" ( patients wife ) reply "yaaaaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnnn.....haalloo??" "Miriama, o le foma'i mai le falema'i le vili atu, e le'i o'o mai lou toolou ae o loga ta'otoga e fai nei i le afa a le sefulu, sa tatau ona lua o'o mai e le'i ta le valu"....reply " giggle giggle giggel...Ui!! se...ua galo fo'i...oi, le'ai ...e le'i faimai a se'isi ma te o atu"...uhmm..like i just saw you yesterday and not only wrote down where and when to come but told you how to get there in the lifts.. anyways...after much exchanged words along the line of you need to get here and get here now or you will wait another 6 months on the waiting list for the operation, they managed to get into the hospital. Giving me exactly 10 minutes to do 100 things that had to be sorted before the op...grrrrrr( cloud over my day number 2) ...meanwhile...my poor boss is doing a ward round of patients that goes..see one patient..stop....stare at wall for 20minutes wait to me to come back ...then see another 2 ..then stop again as i run off again...my pager is going off continuously..its the pharmacy calling about someones meds being out of stock, its the lab saying i had to repeat some bloods cos they lost them..its some random nurse somewhere saying she didnt know how to get a patient to a clinic appointment cos its across the road etcetc etc..uhmm like why are you calling me?? do you want ME to carry them over??? its the receptionist chasing me up on nonurgent paperwork, its my other boss ( i have 4 bosses) asking me to do some work that they really need to be doing themselves that i cant say no to cos its my boss ( grrr) its a nurse ringing to tell me they accidently pulled out someones IVline so i needed to come put another one in...someone cant pee and needs a catheter...someone has a sore back someone has a fever someone is crying and locked themselves in the bathroom and wants to talk to me..someones family wanting to see me about whether i have considered putting their mum in a rest home ( uhmm hello..dont you 'the family' people need to sort that out- if you dont want to look after your mum anymore- YOU find a resthome for them!) ..anyways, as the day progresses and i am being pulled in several directions..i become more and more short tempered..poor bored orderly trying to make small chat and crack jokes with me " he he..you docs always trying to look busy eh..but really aiiiii!"...wanting to strangle his neck right now..no maybe bash his head against window..no no..stop it!!! anyways manage to get most of my crap sorted by 5pm...had lunch at 3pm which wasnt a good idea cos by then i was starving..went down to cafe and stuffed my face silly..then walked around feeling 9 months pregnant thereafter...console myself with knowledge that i have been running around all day and probably burned off as many calories as I ate ( yay!!) hehe!!..check on all our patient before i leave..no one has died ( phew!!) and everyone is stable ( double phew) no one wants to talk to me or needs things done..wow, i cant believe i sorted everything out..i feel like i have just walked through hell and back. hopefully tomorrow is a better day!!!!