Jigsaws and Covid-19 thoughts on a day off

As I was describing in my blog from earlier in the week, life isn't really as we have all known it. Especially since I am a 'frontline worker' (more than a fancy word of just doing my job taking take of sick people, this just happens to have a potential deadly disease atm)m I really feel the need to do something super stupid to relax the brain.

One of our own department was admitted into our own department or better said the ICU and that was such a mental burden that this person was transported to a different hospital. Not because of lack of quality but for keeping the stability of the team sane. You see, surgery on one of our own is an event that is a couple of hours which you can pump yourself up to without getting your emotions in the way. But this covid disease is such a long stretch of ICU time (between 10 and 30 days) that is too long of a period of time, in combination of all the extra shifts everybody is working and the amount of deaths we have every day....it's a mentally draining situation.

So I make jigsaws, and what better ones to make then one with dogs on there. Speaking of dogs. I've responded to multiple shelters about rehousing a dog, and the thing is...lots of dogs are getting picked up in these phases where everybody is home. Let us hope that they all get to stay in their home as well, when society starts getting back to normal (whenever that may be). So I am waiting again for a reply of rehousing a dog, and damn I am impatient. We would love a furry friend around here, which would give me a really good reason to walk around a bit more. I already walk more than normal, but that is only once a day. Since there is no way our office space will look as it used to 'back in the days' there will be home working from home, and more time for a furry friend. Besides, I miss my furry friend man. So yes....the time is now! (just reply duuuuuuuuuuuudes)

So yeah these cartoon jigsaws I am doing now are the ones called from the brand 'Wasgij' which ofcourse is jigsaw the other way around but it took me three weeks to realize that. But the idea is that the cover doesn't tell you what you have to lay down. So you get a clue on the box saying for instance 'what does the the biker see' and then you have to imaging what he is seeing, which results on the image on the box. Not always easy, but hey...with a lot of patients you will get there eventually

In this one the image was that you have to think about home stuff had look like bad in the days, and damn this was a hard one. It was combined with a week of nightshifts, and damn I can say....that takes every ounce of sharpness away from you, feeling like a vampire. I can honestly say that when you are really tired, you also see slight differences in colors not that well.

I had a lady last week who woke up after a couple days of anesthetic which was a small victory ofcourse. You need to have one every now and then who actually wakes up, and doesn't disappear in a wooden bed to the cellar of the hospital aka morgue. I told here in the night that she should try to get some sleep because her body was working so hard, and she answered me back sarcastically 'that is easy for you to say, because you are the one who is poking me every two hours with all kinds of stuff'. I really had to laugh, if a patient hasn't lost their sense of humor..we are taking the right path right in this puzzle right?