We survived “Deployment”…so far.

So last week was deployment week. I was freaking out trying to have everything perfect for when the deployment team got there, and I was lead to believe that the week would be jam-packed with activity. It turned out, I think, that since I’m not retarded and did a kind of OK job, much of the frantic work I expected was eliminated. I wasn’t quite sure what I was supposed to be doing most of the time. I worked days Monday-Wednesday, and then came back Wednesday night to work early Thursday morning, when we dispensed in the new system for the first time.

Oh, before I get ahead of myself, here’s Dave doing the first elution in the new system Wednesday afternoon:

And here’s Justin drawing the first dose…(and if it wasn’t actually the first dose, this is exactly what it looked like when he drew the first dose):

So Thursday morning was kind of a clustercuss…lots of stuff out late and we found some things I forgot to take care of while we were knee-deep in chaos, but the “team” said that’s how it almost always goes (which of course made me pissed at myself because I wanted us to be above average). Second run went better, except for the system going down for a while, but overall, I was relieved that we had survived the first night. I finally went home after being there 10+ hours, and I told Brian I wasn’t going to sleep much because I wanted to be able to sleep Thursday night. I promptly slept on the couch for about 6 hours. I still went to sleep early that evening and was still beat when I got up for work Friday morning.

Here are some pictures from Friday that illustrate the good attitude everyone continues (hopefully) to have and their willingness to learn:

I took this picture as I was leaving Saturday, I like it because it has a crack and the Syncor S is still visible:

Additionally, Friday night, I finally saw Nasim…we’d seen his poop, but not him yet this season:

Anyway, after all the hubbub, it was nice to just chillax this weekend and not have to worry about all my SUPERUSER responsibilities, knowing that we were deployed and it’s been a success so far…rechargy! I did tasks like edging and hose repair and didn’t have to think about GOING LIVE! at all. It was terrific (until I go back to work tomorrow and we have to figure out all sorts of new oddball things…).