Land of No Information

[kitkatz]

I swear my center is the Land of No Information.  They are switching us from nocturnal to days and it ends Thursday for us, but no one knows when their first treatment is, at least I do not have  a clue. I called the director today and she does not know a whole lot either because Fresenius pulled her to a convention last week.  So in the middle of trying to schedule 16 to 20 of us over to days she was gone.  She still has not come in to the nocturnal times to directly talk to me about this move.  She talked to everyone else one night, but did not wake me up.  Important information!  Wake me up for it!  I got the news of the change-over at 2a.m.  Not a good time for me to get news like this to consider. 
I told her the lack of information from the top was very disturbing.   
She says it starts the 11th and I said so we are having Sunday dialysis? 
Well no. 
Thursday is last nocturnal day, so I have five days from Thursday to Tuesday? 
No, you can come in Saturday. 
Does the shift know I need a seat on Saturday?  I will tell them....   Ummm.   

I am not comfortable with all of this since she is NOT giving out information very well.  This all affects my life and schedule.  I do not think I have ever seen her at a nocturnal shift with us.  Could not pick the director out of a line up if threatened to do it.  Claims she is coming tomorrow night to see us.  She told me that a few weeks ago.  I feel like the red-headed step child once again!  I HATE that feeling.  Kaiser does it to me all the time.  So I probably sounded like I was telling her how to do her job over the phone.

[Charlie B53]

Nothing like a procrastination to upset everyone's schedules.   I forsee a lot of re-scheduling in the near future, and wait times when they realize she may have forgotten and end up over-scheduled.   THAT will upset some days, waiting 4 hours for a seat.

[kitkatz]

This last week was a week of new terror in trying to adapt to a new dialysis routine.  I hated going 10am to 5pm this week.  I felt like it ripped three days out of my week.  After dialysis I was so weak and not feeling up to doing anything.  Yuck. I much prefer to go to dialysis, come home, eat and sleep to recover from it.  All of the appointments I had last week went off without a hitch.  I made them and saw who I was supposed to see.
I made it to dialysis and found out they cut my time by an hour all four days.  It was due to the new staffing and schedule NOT being figured out properly for TTHS.  They were down two people.  Well too damn bad, I want my seven hours.  So we see what happens tomorrow when I walk in at 2pm.  Wish me luck.

[Rerun]

These are our actual LIVES they are messing with.  So they can't find anyone to do the nocturnal shift?  Really, with all the unemployment out there?  I don't think they tried very damn hard.  I'm sorry you have to go through this Kit.  Our night shifts have 2 teams.  One team works Sun, Mon Tue night and the next team works Wed Thrus Fri night.  So they work three 12 hour days and get 4 days off.  They love it.  Who wouldn't?

[kitkatz]

I am now MWF 2-9 pm.  Thank the powers that be.  Today was not as rough as last week was at dialysis.  Plus I got techs I know back on my shift.

[willowtreewren]

I am now MWF 2-9 pm.  Thank the powers that be.  Today was not as rough as last week was at dialysis.  Plus I got techs I know back on my shift.

That's great news! 

Aleta