You know you're tired when....

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You know you're tired when....

You drink a triple latte, have two giant iced teas with lunch, drink a hot double green tea on the drive home, sit down at your desk and promptly fall asleep in the office chair.

You hear something in the middle of the night and check your cell phone, home phone and pager before you find the right one because in your stupor you can't remember what any of them sound like.

You hear that same noise in the middle of the night and after checking all three of the aforementioned devices, you realize that you were just dreaming.

You wake up after a night of on-call and have slept so soundly that you are in a state of panic until you can verify that your pager never went off.

You actually nod off for a brief moment while retracting for a distal radius fracture.

You fall asleep in the middle of a meal.

It's nine thirty at night and you are positive that the trauma you scrubbed at 0330 that same morning was two days ago.

You have no idea what day of the week it is.

No matter how you wrack your brain, you can't remember where you parked so you walk around the parking garage with your remote keyless entry hitting the lock button repeatedly so you can follow the sound of your horn to find your vehicle.

You have to pull over and grab a cat nap before you can safely complete the 15 mile drive home.

You make the drive home, park in the driveway, and fall asleep before you can get out of the vehicle.

All of those big fancy medical terms you know so well completely escape you. In fact, most multiple syllabic words escape you.

You avoid eating anything but peanut butter and apples because if you eat anything heavier, it's lights out.

And, you know you're tired when ..... after working seventeen hours straight, you get a second wind.