Essentially you could take the picture I painted in my last posting about what I'd be doing at the eye bank and just burn it. I haven't been doing anything that I thought I'd be doing! Pretty much since day one I've been, what I like to consider, and glorified secretarial detective! So I've been doing paperwork......... A LOT of paperwork! How exactly is the best way to articulate what I do? I'm sorry if this all comes off leaving you with no clue, but it's sort of hard to describe accurately.
Well here it goes! Picture every donor has a case file. This case file has it's own unique number. There are all kinds of different things that need to be approved and tested and investigated in each donor chart. And everything that not only has to be done with the donated tissues, but also their whole medical history has to be documented in these charts. So far, thats where I've stepped in for the eye bank. There is an overwhelming amount of paperwork that has yet to find a home in it's corresponding chart. So I take paperwork and put it in charts. I also take charts that are needing final approval and make sure all the paperwork that is supposed to be there, is in fact, in the chart. This requires me to look up information detailing each chart on Midwest eye bank's national online database. I check shipping data for flags, where the tissues went, did we get paperwork from those locations, did the tissues get approved, etc. I've also been given assignments where I've had to go through already filed charts to recheck if the required paperwork is all there.
So again, I've done a lot of paperwork! I'm currently working on an assignment that is the most fun....... I've literally been given 96 pages worth of case numbers, or, all the cases that we have at the eye bank, and I'm going through the file cabinets and verifying that they are all actually there. This is very time consuming and tedious work.
Again, I'm sorry if I've done a terrible job of attempting to describe what I've been up to, but there isn't a whole lot to tell! But I must say, even though I haven't been up to what I thought I would be so far, I can't say I'm entirely unhappy. Yes is all the paperwork terribly mundane? Sure it is. But I really feel like I'm helping the eye bank out a lot! There is a lot of paperwork that I've done because there is no one else who has had the time to do all of this! And as boring and lame as it sounds to be doing, it is actually super important that it gets done. So does the work kinda suck? Yeah, sure it does! But it is vital that it IS done, so I'm surprisingly happy to do it for them. Plus, and I really don't mean to toot my own horn, but I'm shockingly good at it. I'm efficient and organized. I've been able to take all the charts and paperwork and organize it all very well so that everyone knows what-is-what and where it all is. People have been coming directly to me to ask questions about their charting and what to do with it. So again, as lame as the work sounds, I must also sound lame because I'm kinda enjoying it.
I must also say, I won't be doing this the whole time I'm at the eye bank. I have already been doing a little bit of cell counting, reorganizing stored corneas and scleras, and I'm eventually going to be training on how to go out and do eye procurements! I'm very excited about that last one! I'll have to let you know more about that when I actually start getting around to that though, because as of right now, I only know that they want to train me in on that job.
Wow, I've actually written a solid amount about doing paperwork. You must all be falling asleep reading this! How about some other updates?! Hannah and I went downtown for St. Patrick's Day weekend to see the river all green and weird looking. We saw brother +Josh Ditthardt and finally met his wonderful new bride-to-be Laura! Congrats again you two!
We were able to drive +Paul warneke back to Winona not long ago and were able to stay in town for the weekend. That was amazing. Always so refeshing to get out of Chicago and get back home! Oh, also while we were home we got to go shoot guns! So I'll add a picture of Hannah shooting just for fun!
After church today we drove over to one of the conservatories here in Chicago...... there were a bunch of plants in it.
Hmmm..... what are some other updates? I, regrettably, just shaved off my best beard ever. SO I guess thats news.
OH! +Hannah only has 5 months left of PA school!!! BOOM!!!!!!
Yeah...... we're not too exciting. Sorry!
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| Here is another stack of files from some random day |
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| Here are some of the filing cabinets at work I dig through |
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| This was my beard..... I already miss it |
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| We visited one of the conservatories in Chicago |
