March 15, 2008 at 8:59 am (everyday, school)
Tags: airways, David, studying
I go to pick up the boy from the airport in about four hours. I think piggy is more excited than me. I just do not give the same quality head scratching as David does. Thank goodness he’s coming home though, the S2 IS has finally crapped out on me – the lens won’t go back in and I keep getting the dreaded “F18″ message – and he has the beloved Rebel and my SD450. Oh yeah, and that whole “I missed him” thing which i won’t bore you with.
I was suppose to spend the day studying yesterday, but I ended up making some more items for Quarantine’s new shop. It’s a new addiction – as if I needed anything else to distract me! But seriously, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to see the A-aDO2 formula again until the NBRC exam. Guess I was wrong. And then there’s that curve thing…
I aced the dreaded Airways exam though. 57/60. We were all shaking in our boots, but turns out it wasn’t nearly as bad as Modalities last semester. Now to sit down and use these final hours as study time.
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February 29, 2008 at 3:40 pm (everyday, school)
Tags: ABG, airways, bipap, David, SJH, UCH
So this whole UCH rotation has been a mess up to yesterday. The first day we ended up going to the lab on campus instead. The next we went to UCH and met the lady that was supposed to be the instructor of DOOM, but really, I enjoyed her. The next we went to St. Joseph’s and were supposed to go there again Thursday, but last minute was ordered to UCH because the other instructor was back – she’d been out with back problems. Confusing? Very.
But my first day at UCH was exciting. I drew my first live blood gas and got it on the first try. Everyone is jealous of my extraordinary ABG abilities. We went to this nightmare of a code – the guy’s BiPap machine decided to not work so they ended up having to intubate them. Later we got to observe someone getting extubated. One of the more eventful clinical days I’ve had. It sure beat giving nebulizer treatments all day, that’s for sure.
I have another two weeks before the boy comes home and trashed the room. I can hardly wait.
We have a huge (as in, +50% of our grade) on airways coming up. Scared? Oh yes. It’s supposed to be harder than the modalities test from last semester which, by the way, 16 out of 20 people failed. Oh yes. I suppose I need to finish that chapter I was reading…
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February 16, 2008 at 5:32 pm (everyday, school)
Tags: arkansas, clinicals, grades, money, shopping
I wrote this for kiwi, but realized a lot of it hadn’t been mentioned here yet.
Time for a monthly update y/n?
Well, let’s see. David is gone for another four weeks (out of a total of five) for work training in ARKANSAS. Apparently it’s Dullsville, not that I’m surprised. How sad is it that I’m just glad that I get a break from CoD4? Seriously that game is like crack for that boy. But yeah I hear from him at least twice a day so really I’m doing quite fine.
The night before he left we went to the casino with the in-laws. David I both took out $10 each and figured we’d be done in 10 minutes. I got mine up to $30 and I was all excited about that and then he walks around the corner and shows me he won $460. Craziness. We ended up saving that and splitting my $30 between the two of us to keep playing. He ran out and I got $60, so we ended up pocketing $500 that night.
I went shopping for the first time in ages with some of our winnings. I got two new pairs of jeans, two tops, a new dress, a pair heeled sandals, and some undies. I’m at that awkward inbetween sizes time with jeans though. threes are two small and fives are a little big. I went with the fives and see how that goes.
Clinicals at TGH were AMAZING. I love what I’m doing so much (apart from having to wake up before 5am to get ready and get there on time). This next week I’m starting at UCH though. let’s just hope I don’t get thrown off the deep end like the last bunch.
We also started practicing arterial punctures this past Thursday. I got it on the first try. Here’s to getting it right every time! >_< (more info on arterial punctures).
Lecture has been going surprisingly decent so far this semester. It’s still full of Professor Espresso* being a complete nutcase half of the time but I’ve been fairing well with an ‘A’ in Basic Respiratory and a ‘B’ in Cardiopulmonary Pathology. And an ‘A’ in Clinic I’m sure. Now if I can just keep that up.
I believe that’s all for right now.
* pseudonym.
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January 16, 2008 at 8:30 pm (everyday, school)
Tags: college, rant, tests
Apparently my school has gotten even MORE stingy than it already was. Grant it they can’t do much to prevent cuts instead of taking pay cuts themselves (God forbid) but seriously: we have to print everything ourselves now? Waste our own ink and paper on the multiple 20 page powerpoints we have to have A DAY? Ridiculous. I’ve got almost 200 pages of shit to print. I’m just going to waste the school library paper, me thinks, except for the stuff I need for clinicals next week.
I just need to get my patches sewn onto my scrub tops and print out my evaluation forms and such and I’m set for clinicals. I’m pretty excited. I’m not as nervous as I was before I met the TGH instructors. They’ve both been in my shoes AND remember what it’s like and I think they’re both going to help me a lot. Thank God >_<
I think this semester is going to be a bit…smoother for me. It seems that most of the tests are going to be on a smaller amount of material, versus the HUGE tests we had last semester. I know I got an ‘A’ on one of the tests I took this week and I ‘m still awaiting the results of the other, but I should have done well on that one as well. I still have that huge Airway test to worry about though – you know, the one just randomly thrown in it seems worth half the cumulative grade? Airways are important in our profession, obviously, but seriously? Might as well make it our final.
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January 8, 2008 at 11:20 am (emotions, everyday)
Tags: cats, Piggy
David called me while I was in class yesterday and I called him back at lunch time. Piggy wasn’t being Piggy-like. Wasn’t moving, very lethargic, etc. I’d seen him that morning and thought something was up, but was in a rush to get ready for class. He said Nano was waiting for me to come home from school to talk about taking him to the vet and I was all “fuck that take him NOW”. I’m scheduled there until 3:15 and wouldn’t have been home until after four and the vet would be ready to close by the time we got Pigz loaded up and there. So David told Nano I said to take him to the vet and he did.
Of course I couldn’t concentrate for my next class >_< But we got out early at least.
They were back by the time I got home. One of the neighbor’s cats have been hanging around lately and last night Piggy and Gray Cat decided to pick on him. Apparently Neighbor Cat Got a few licks in on Piggy. He has two bites/scratches on him but otherwise checked out fine. They gave him a shot of some antibiotic and sent him home with some pills. He’s sleeping in Sara’s room right now.
I thoguht for sure the cat treats were poisoned – all five of them were snubbing this particular bag and I thoguht maybe Piggy ate some after all and something was wrong.
If he hasn’t started eating by Wednesday she said to bring him back in, but if not then we just bring him back next week.
The vet that took care of him when he had his leg issue saw Piggy was there on the chart and came in to see him though she had another patient to see him >_< Everyone loves the Piggy!
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January 1, 2008 at 5:41 pm (everyday)
Tags: blogging, car accident, credit card, new year, resolutions
I Have a list of things that I need to improve and do for the new year and one of them is to get back into blogging. Message boards are nice and all, but I think I need to be able to look back and see how I can improve. The past six months or so I haven’t blogged much at all, mostly due to the hellhole the site I was journaling at was becoming, and the past six months I’ve found myself becoming more bitter, more lost, and at a loss of where to find guidance.
The new year wasn’t kind to us this morning, however. David was cut off on the interstate and fishtailed off the road, down a steep slope and stopped in between trees. I’ve never been so thankful to have that little car – any larger car would have rolled. Both he and the car came out miraculously unscathed. A few feet earlier or later and he would have hit a tree.
On top of it, after paying the towing company, he lost his credit card and, get this, I can’t report it lost because they’re closed for the holiday. I really hate Chase. I can’t wait to get our tax money to pay off the credit card and cancel it. They’re customer service sucks nearly as bad as microsoft’s and the APR is just ridiculous.
One of my other resolutions was to stop being such a negative nancy and to be more cheerful. Today isn’t making that very easy.
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December 18, 2007 at 2:04 am (everyday)
Tags: college, deployment
All I can really say at this point in time is that I am SO glad that the semester is over. I was at that point of near collapse and this month long break could not have came soon enough. I’m hoping things fair better this next semester sanity-wise.
Word has it David will be deploying again the summer of 2009, though it could be bumped up to as early as September 2008. Either way, he’ll be missing my graduation again I’m sure. It’s still so far off that I haven’t started stressing about it yet.
That’s about all I have at the moment.
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