Whats with the weather?

Cold, warm, windy, FREEZING, warm.......
Joe'l told me that it will soon be groundhog day, she said she hoped he didn't see his shadow (or whichever means no more winter) Anyways, I said "what winter? We haven't really had any winter yet."
I'm off today, although I have a full plate of things to do, at least I'm home!

Back at work

I'm at work now, wanted to drop a note and see if anyone had looked at the picture, but no one has.
The ER is very busy right now, I hope we get through this rush and have a peaceful night. I'm not getting my hopes up though.
The most important thing on my mind right now is what we are going to have for supper....I'm thinking Chinese, we'll see what everyone else thinks.

Who remembers this?

I told you this was coming, my own old pictures.

(I can't find the one of Leta that I promised, but I will.

Endo day at the hospital

Today I was observing in the endoscopy department all day. I watched 3 or 4 EGD's (down the throat scopes); 3 or 4 colonoscopies (up the rear scopes); 1 ERCP (shooting dye into the common bile duct to make sure the ducts are still patent, and the clip is still holding where the gallbladder used to be); and a bronchoscopy with biopsy under fluroscopy (real-time X-ray) THAT was really neat.

Joe'l came up to Bloomington and we went out to eat at Red Lobster. Bella is staying with her grandparents for the weekend.

OR time

I was in the OR all day at the hospital. I really had a good time! I took some extra medicine and prayed a lot before I left home. I didn't even *think* about being nervous today. I'm excited.
I got to see a carotid endarterectomy. That is where the carotid artery (in your neck) is cut open longitudinally and the plaque is taken out. I thought it would be like grease or fat that came out, but it was more like grissle or the parts of a piece of chicken that you don't eat.
In the afternoon I watched two hernia repairs done though the scope (endoscope). That was neat too, like playing a video game, watch the monitor and move the little graspers around inside.
I had a good day!

A bad day

Today I had class, a lady from the OR came to talk to us about do's and don't's for me we have observation time there. I'm the first person to have time in the OR, it is tomorrow. I don't want to do it. I'm afraid I'll freak out while I'm in there.
She said that if we feel like we are going to pass out that we should just sit down in the floor, not try to make it out of the room, we'd probably fall down and crack our heads. Great!
I was really happy to be home and see Joe'l and Bella, I'm having a hard time with my anxiety right now.

Splitting a weekend is bad

I worked Saturday 7am-7pm, and Sunday 7pm-7am. Don't try this at home.

I may be chosen to have a blog on the Ivy Tech website, I will find out later this week...maybe. There are several others vying for the position. But my wit and charm, I'm sure, will lead me to win.
We've had a good night in the ER, our patient numbers are up, which means we aren't all bored to tears all night long. And some of them are actually SICK! (and have insurance!)

One hour till I'm off, and I can't wait. I am really tired tonight. I work again on Tuesday day-shift and then have school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and am scheduled to work Saturday and Sunday day-shifts, then school on Monday morning and a "nursing luncheon" at noon. Then I'll be off for a whole day! I think I'll sleep.

Thursday I'll be in the OR at Bloomington Hospital observing. Friday will be Endoscopy (that is where they put the scope down your throat and look, or cut or whatever needs done.) Endoscopy will be interesting and Surgery probably will be too.
But, going into Nursing school, the one thing that I didn't really want to do was OR, so what is the FIRST specialty observation I have to do.....OR of course. *sigh* This is just my luck. But I will arise and overcome!!
I gotta get some pictures on here, I'm sure the blog is boring.

Home away from Home

My Aunt lets me stay at her Condo on the lake when I need to. I'm probably going to be here more this semester than last, due to class schedule and work.

Tomorrow is the first day at the hospital for clinicals, we are going to be learing about IV pumps, and the computer system and where things are in the hospital....yee haa...I just had to learn a new facility, but that's ok, I will arise and overcome.

I am going to get to some reading, then to bed. (Why can't we just have a USB port put in our head and download all the information? al-a "The Matrix")

The Blog ought to be more frequent now that I am back in school.

Caving at the nudey camp

I went caving for the first time in months on Saturday. I had a good time, didn't do anything too over the top. Just a couple of small caves. One was on the property of this place http://www.ourhaven.info/ I didn't know such a place existed so close to home. It is actually in Martin County. This cave was only 65', but it did have some nice yet small formations in it. Most notably were the very tiny rimstone dams.
The second cave we went to was almost in the town of Shoals, it is a sandstone cave. We surveyed (mapped) this cave, and it took a lot longer than anticipated, due to many large rocks in the way. It took 2-3 hours, but we finished it. I'm anticipating seeing the map drawn out.

I started back to school today. I only have one class this semester, but two days of clinicals at the hospital, so I will be busy non-the-less. I'll still be working two shifts a week also.

Bella and Joe'l got back from PA yesterday, I was happy to see them, they had been gone for 9 days to visit family and celebrate the holidays with them.

I should be able to get back to the blog now that vacation is over and I'll be on a more set schedule.

Oh the wonders of boredom

We got a new "all-in-one" printer for ourselves around Christmas time...so I guess it was a gift to ourselves. Now I can scan in some of these pictures I have around. I have a bunch from my Senior band trip to Florida. Those will be NICE!! ha ha....
And I am pretty sure I have a really great one of Letajoy hanging onto the back of my lawnmower, being the "weight" for the grader blade, if I'm not mistaken, she is wearing a neon green hat....Yeah, maybe tomorrow I'll got on a scanning frenzy!

Joe'l and Bella are in PA, they left last Monday er Sunday, Friday maybe, I can't remember, I don't even know what today is. Anyway, they will be home on Sunday!
I miss them awful. :o( Poor daddy.