Maternity Jeans

So in a rare event I actually have some time off. Yeah, my program lets us do this half staffing for Christmas and New Year's so you either get one off or the other. Last year I worked Christmas and really it wasn't all that bad. Doctors don't want to be in the hospital, patients don't want to be in the hospital, nothing is elective, and you get the sympathy vote. So I decided this year to do the same. This year was a completely different story however. So as a second year all of my call is in the surgical ICU.....I run 2 units so that's about 20 SICU beds. 20 patients doesn't sound like that much until you're actually doing it. SICU patient tend to die, especially at night, and especially on holidays like Christmas. So every time I'm on call there are at least one to two patients trying to actively die on me. Now I love Christmas, and I know it's a big deal for a lot of other people too.....so I was NOT going to let anyone die on Christmas. Fortunately I was successful. But this meant that my 5 days of half staffing around Christmas was really exhausting, especially compounded by every third night call, and being on call on Christmas itself.

So now I'm officially on my break. I have flown with my husband to a little town in NY to visit my family. Yesterday as I was packing before our flight I realized that none of my real clothes actually fit me. I spend most of my waking hours in scrubs, and then when I am home it usually means a quick change into either pjs or gym clothes depending on the formality of the event. So now to visit my parents I had to be creative. I had purchased a pregnancy band (stretchy thing you wear over jeans or pants with an open zipper). So I was determined to use this for my trip. Of course as soon as I got home my mother tells me that my zipper is undone and she can see it. Needless to say mother and daughter went on an exciting trip to buy maternity jeans.

These jeans are great!! I may never wear regular jeans again! The zipper is fake and there is no button. The top panel is all stretchy and soft. I could be as fat as I want and still wear a size 8. Amazing :) Time for some maternity jeans Beta testing.