but Saturday, our emergency room overflowed into the aisle, which also was full up. Our in-patient census was and remains at max. Sunday was crazy too. Suddenly the doctors are ordering magnesium tests like crazy and the analyzer ran out mid-morning. The 2 people that were on ignored the system alarms and waited for me to come in and fix it. 
Then we ran out of a 2nd reagent, and then a 3rd. Two of them were "new lots" which need to be calibrated, QCd, and have 2 patient tests run and compared with results from the old reagent. In the meantime, the emergency tests were piling up...
And Sunday the crazies were out. We had one patient that was stuck in rage. On an anti-anxiety med, and ranting and raving. Thing is, I recognized everything she was saying and doing because I've been there. But it's like she was "stuck" in it. Every so often, she'd suddenly turn normal and rational for a couple sentences. And then she was off. Pacing around the room "I've got to get out of here! I've got to get out of here!" and threatening to sue a neighbor, and the apartment kids driving her crazy. After I was set up, I got her to lie down. As soon as she relaxed, she started sobbing "I'm so ugly. I'm so ugly." "No, you're not ugly. You are not ugly." "Yes I am. Yes I am." I wanted desperately to just hug her and hold her...I was able to stay calm and centered. 
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