Hello, midnight owls! It's my pleasure to join this week's prompt.
At midnight everything becomes more important and tasky even simple chores because the body is ready to retire it seems like "let me just do this and get some sleep".
If you have been to the hospital before and stayed overnight you would agree with me that midnight is always the scariest time because mobility has reduced, nurses and doctors are very few at night and there is always little they can do at night.
Personally, as a nurse, everything about the night shift is considered urgent because life can be lost if I don't manage everything urgently, I try to finish up giving treatment before 2:am so that I can have a little rest and also be on alert for any emergency.
The night is always very long and so many things are bound to happen if care is not taken.
Most times at night am the only nurse on duty, a patient in ward three might start running a temperature and if I don't act immediately it might become so serious that I can't manage it anymore.
One day when I was on night duty, one of the patients started having a crisis, while I was just trying to take care of him another patient's relative came to call me that the mom was vomiting and she needed my attention, it wasn't easy at all that night but I'm happy no life was lost.
So because it's midnight everything is urgent, nothing should be treated casually because the next minute will come up with a different story.
I have missed those days, maybe I will go back soon.
The thing that has to be treated as urgent right now is warming my soup and stew, there has been power outage for days and my foods have defrost about to spoil so if I don't warm the soup and stew before going to bed I won't have anything to eat tomorrow, I have to treat it as urgent even though I'm feeling sleepy right now.
The time is 11:36pm let me go warm the soup and stew before going to bed, good night everyone.