Curse of the Computer

I always forget how much I rely on computers until they break! Already within the past couple of months I have had the hard-drive on my personal computer fizzle; and dislodged the hard-drive on my boyfriend's one after knocking it over.

Today it happened right when I started my shift and attempted to log on, my screen froze and would not let me proceed; not matter how many times I manually re-booted.

Finally I called the hospital computer help-desk, the poor guy upstairs was just as baffled as I was, and had to come all the way down to Emerg to see what he could do. I spent the next 3 hours waiting while him and a colleague completely replaced my whole computer.

After the new one was installed, and the old one carted away, I gingerly re-booted and all seemed to be hunky-dory until....I tried to log in to the program we use to register patients, and I could not see any patients on my screen, even though the ER was full. It took another 2 hours for them to fix THAT problem. Finally, by 8 pm, with over half my shift having gone by, my computer was up an running. Luckily it was a pretty mellow night (even though we did have a depressed psych patient somehow break loose from her four-point restraints and go AWOL)

I have a love/hate relationship with technology.
I love it until it breaks/ then I hate its guts!!