Day 1
I worked a normal day in the NICU. Talk began about activating A Team and Isaac becoming a real deal hurricane. Rumors were abound of us reporting in the am to be in house for the duration of the storm. Throughout the day, departments were distributing parish reentry packets, parking passes, and essential personnel badges. Those of us on A Team were allowed to finish up work and then head out to prepare to live in a hospital for quite a few days. About 4pm, we got the email - A Team was to report Monday evening before 11pm. I secured the house as much as possible, packed my belongings and took a shower - I had no idea where and when my next one would occur. I reported to Ochsner Main Campus around 9pm. Checking in was easy, we just had to report to our department and then set up camp. There are 4 RDs on A Team...essential personnel, we're still not sure why we're here.
Checking in...was interesting. We were first told to report to the Information Desk in the Atrium and get our wrist bands. While standing in the very long line, there was an announcement that our wrist bands were given to our department managers. I wander down to my department office...lights off and locked. All I could do was sit and wait.
About 20 minutes later people start to show up. It's close to 10pm now, I'm tired and all I want to do is sleep. No one knows what's going on, all everyone wants to do is say how much they didn't want to come in and all I want to do is sleep. One of the other RDs and I go grab my stuff and we walk over to the Tom and Gayle Benson Cancer Center - the RDs were sleeping in the chemo lab. We stake our claim and post some signs to keep randos out. Here's a view of our sleeping arrangements.
The other 2 RDs come in eventually and around 12:30am we're finally headed to sleep.
I worked a normal day in the NICU. Talk began about activating A Team and Isaac becoming a real deal hurricane. Rumors were abound of us reporting in the am to be in house for the duration of the storm. Throughout the day, departments were distributing parish reentry packets, parking passes, and essential personnel badges. Those of us on A Team were allowed to finish up work and then head out to prepare to live in a hospital for quite a few days. About 4pm, we got the email - A Team was to report Monday evening before 11pm. I secured the house as much as possible, packed my belongings and took a shower - I had no idea where and when my next one would occur. I reported to Ochsner Main Campus around 9pm. Checking in was easy, we just had to report to our department and then set up camp. There are 4 RDs on A Team...essential personnel, we're still not sure why we're here.
Checking in...was interesting. We were first told to report to the Information Desk in the Atrium and get our wrist bands. While standing in the very long line, there was an announcement that our wrist bands were given to our department managers. I wander down to my department office...lights off and locked. All I could do was sit and wait.
About 20 minutes later people start to show up. It's close to 10pm now, I'm tired and all I want to do is sleep. No one knows what's going on, all everyone wants to do is say how much they didn't want to come in and all I want to do is sleep. One of the other RDs and I go grab my stuff and we walk over to the Tom and Gayle Benson Cancer Center - the RDs were sleeping in the chemo lab. We stake our claim and post some signs to keep randos out. Here's a view of our sleeping arrangements.
The other 2 RDs come in eventually and around 12:30am we're finally headed to sleep.
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