2 weeks

It has been nearly 2 weeks since my last post.  Seems both impossible and very very likely.  Honestly, it has been a hectic couple of weeks.

Quinn is still up and down depending on the day (and the time of day).  He has 'colic' very likely, but that isn't much of an actual diagnosis.  Basically it just means he is fussy and there is no medical reason why that is.  All they really know is that it goes away around months 3-4.  They sell a lot of treatments for it, and we have tried them, but none have any proven efficacy and none have worked for us.  He likes the treatments a lot though because they are mixed in sugar.  Everyone has their own suggestions as well, from putting him in a car seat on top of a running dryer to placing some karo syrup in the bottom of his bottle.  In all cases it 'worked for them'.

While we certainly appreciate the ideas, like grown people, babies are unique and seem to sooth in their own ways.  We have found that Quinn likes to be almost violently bounced in a manner that would appear downright abusive from afar.  He also needs to be burped far longer and more vigorously than I would assume is normal.  We have also tried hard to zero in on his cues which are still sometimes mysterious, but we are gradually translating them.  Worst case, only a few more months and this should pass.  God knows what comes next though!

As for work (I always circle around), it remains as much a jumble as before....perhaps more so.  On a positive note, they have placed an interim director and they are committed to getting us a manager by mid September.  There are many possible reasons why it has taken this long, but the most likely reasons are: A. They were paying our old manager a 6 month severance so they did not want to 'double pay' for the position and B. Evidently 6 months was the period of time they could not hire someone for the position without risking a potential lawsuit from our previous manager (I have no idea on what grounds this could be, but because they 'eliminated' her position as a means of removing her, they couldn't 'un-eliminate' it and hire someone else immediately).  Why all of this was necessary vs. just sitting down with her and letting her go for whatever reasons they decided it needed to happen is beyond me, but I can't say I see the bigger picture.  

As for my position, that is less clear.  They haven't yet found a replacement for me.  Of the 3 interviews they arranged, 2 accepted positions elsewhere prior to the interview date and the third neglected to show up at all.  Evidently they are going to try another round of interviews at the end of this month.  Somehow this is better/easier than allowing me to work part time and filling in the spots with a co-worker who already is assigned there every Wednesday and using an on-call or floating from another site (which they often have to do anyway due to census issues at peripheral sites) whatever other day they would like (I am malleable).  In the interim, I have 'accepted' the other position and been transferred per HR.  So, every time I clock in at my current job, I have to clock in as a float or else they will charge my time to the Park......you know, where I supposedly work.  In the meantime, I have been here there and everywhere and most definitely full time.  Just this past week I worked 2 days at EM, 2 at the Park, and one at our Vancouver site.  It is boggling.

They have yet to find a replacement for my supervisor as well, which is leaving the one remaining supervisor (she works 3-4 days a week) a LOT of time to catch up since there is no consistency to who is handing off to her.  Plus, it means we are often short on the floor.  It is every bit as awesome as it sounds.  

And finally, they are evidently working with another local hospital to create a new company that is likely going to swallow up all the clinics within the next year or 2.  This will create a myriad of concerns ranging from how patients are seen to how it will work for us as employees.  I won't bother trying to get into it here, as there is not enough information at present to bother with it, but you can imagine the complications of trying to mash together 2 different systems complete with their own physicians, nurses, charting, and procedures.  Most of the Park's staff are very concerned of course, but since there is little that can be done about it (and it is yet unknown if it might actually prove to be better or worse), there is little reason to fret about it in my opinion.

Quinn is calling.  More later.