how was your day, honey?....

ok, so we agreed all around that a 7.5 hour day after 4 days off was un-reasonable....a half-day to readjust to reality would have been just the thing.....because the folks who straggle in after a 4-day closure are not going to be easy cases......i started out with a mamma who is convinced that her infant needs a special formula-one that the state folks will not approve because it is merely a namebrand difference rather than an appreciable difference in...formula.....and the next client is a mamma to a preemie who desparately wants to nurse her infant, but this baby is so small she cannot latch on well....so the mamma is pumping into a bottle after each attempt to nurse directly....and when i approved the doctor's request for supplemental formula she told me of her intent to feed this child nothing but breast milk by the time she gets to 10 pounds.....ya gotta love mammas like this one......and then there was the call from the w-mart person from ark. who lost the application i sent out....and could i send another......and then there was the mamma with the 3 screaming children pregnant with the 4th who let these children roll around on my floor...the 3 year old weighed nearly 60 pounds and had a hard time getting back up off of the floor...and when i mentioned to the mamma that smoking in the house and car can cause ear and lung problems she coughed...then laughed.......so glad i am home...omg...so glad i am home......