 It's about 6 45 a.m. and I'm about to start my 96-hour call shift. Let's go. Procedure shoes, much better. Done a whole bunch of cases this morning and keep doing consults through the ER that won't allow me to leave the hospital today. Then we have another emergent case to do right now from the floor. My ICU patients, another embolization after that. So hopefully I'll get out of here at some point tonight and be able to eat dinner or something like that. So the best thing about working a long holiday weekend is that I happen to have the best wife in the world who brings me dinner when I have to stay late for an overnight case. Hey hon, 8 30 p.m. I'm still at the hospital. I've been so busy I haven't even mentioned that this is day two of my 96-hour call or four days of call for my holiday weekend. So one of the reasons I'm so tired is last night or Friday night I was called in the middle of the night for a patient that was bleeding. We did imaging showed bleeding. They called us to embolize something. We ended up setting the whole thing up and then so I was up pretty much the entire night setting this up and dealing with it. I got a few hours of sleep came into the hospital extra early and as I was walking in the hospital the team called me and canceled the procedure. So that was fun. So I was up all night on Friday night slash Saturday morning, got to the hospital this morning, which is Saturday morning. I've been here doing cases all day long, seeing consult, seeing ER patients and now we have a patient also bleeding tonight and it is now 8 30. We plan on embolizing this patient or attempting to embolize this patient tonight. Then I get to go home tomorrow morning. We have a pretty much a full day full schedule. I'll be back here bright and early. So if I get called in tonight pretty much screws up the whole day tomorrow. Also so as you can tell I probably have the best wife in history. So since tonight I'm on call or this whole weekend I'm on call and tomorrow happens to be our one year wedding anniversary we decided to celebrate it tonight sort of together at the hospital but and yeah so now I'm well fed ready to do this case hopefully doesn't last that long and I can get out of here and get some sleep. 11 45 just now leaving the hospital got here at about 6 30 ish a.m. I'm leaving at 11. It's a pretty long day for a Saturday if I do say so myself. I have a case scheduled first thing in the morning so I'll be back here after a few hours of sleep tomorrow Sunday. See you in the morning and good morning. It is day three we're exactly 48 hours in to our 96 hour call shift head back in the hospital got a good six hours of sleep last night plus I don't know pretty tired two more days to go halfway we have an early case uh starting at eight today another case following that um a little tired today but still hanging in there nothing a little coffee can't fix so off we go all right so just finished seeing all these patients procedures all this stuff it's about three p.m. just wanted to check in again I have to go consent a few patients to get them teed up for tomorrow we're going to come in on this Monday holiday and do some cases so that's that I want to go consent these patients make sure we don't have any other procedures to do tonight and we'll do back at this tomorrow and forgot to mention the main thing is today is my anniversary and I would like to spend a little time with your wife that'd be kind of nice but such is the life of a resident honestly I can't believe it but I'm actually leaving in the daytime sun feels amazing all right so I got all of my consult orders in I did all my notes finished all of our procedures got everything teed up for tomorrow now I'm going home while it's still daylight probably take a nap and hopefully not be called in so see you guys tomorrow and we were back at the hospital this Monday morning holiday Monday I didn't get called in last night well I got called last night and woke up but I didn't get called in for any emergent procedures which is fantastic so I got a little sleep not really uninterrupted but whatever um back at the hospital now we have to do probably three or four cases today that we scheduled from yesterday and also you noticed that I shaved overnight so I did have a few hours to myself yesterday so that's good all right off to start the day this thing won't shut up check out with you in a little bit so when I first get here the first thing I do is look at all the consults for overnight and I triage which ones I think are important or emergent and all of the ones that have to go today after I do that I'll call the teams back about non urgent consults see if we can either add them onto the schedule today or work them up for tomorrow but today's the holiday that's my fourth day on call so we're only doing emergent cases today because we have a skeleton crew just me the attending and two me the attending a tech and a nurse there's always backup people but we don't call the man unless stuff starts hitting the fan so after I do that I try to jump in cases intermittently that are going throughout the day and I'll respond to the pages when I get out of the case or go see patients between cases or whatnot so basically my priorities are seeing work up patients organize patients coming down here with the primary teams figure out what exactly they want do procedures make sure patients are doing well after their procedures and also get patients worked up for tomorrow so that when our primary team our full team comes in tomorrow which is Tuesday morning after a holiday we're not completely slammed in behind like 30 patients it probably will be but I'll try my best to try to help them out for tomorrow so I still have a few more cases to do today still have to see a few more patients and then hopefully I'll get everything ready for tomorrow's rounds in the morning at 7 a.m we should be good to go home and I want to call in tonight because I don't know if I can handle another night of no sleep so let's see how it goes so it is now about 11 o'clock I've seen on my console to have a few more procedures to do today hopefully tonight it will go well I can come in and do a nice easy recovery unit shift tomorrow so usually post-call weekends or post-call days we'll do we'll just do consents in the pre-procedural and post-procedural workup area that way I'm not on my feet another day for 12 hours wearing lead and all that stuff so apparently we have one more case ice you ever stops neither do we are done and we made it it's about 6 30 right now leaving the hospital in daylight hours which is absolutely amazing people are yelling in the background I have no idea why and yeah we're almost there keep in mind I have to make it till 7 a.m tomorrow morning Tuesday morning to complete my 96-hour call at Strava Danza so if I don't get called in tonight then I will get to sleep well and go in at normal time tomorrow so on that note if you like these videos make sure you smash that like and subscribe button follow me on Instagram if you don't already I post some pretty cool stuff over there sometimes otherwise I'll see you guys if I don't come in tomorrow I'll see you guys on the next video