I just got home from work and felt inspired to update:
The 13th of May is my last day on 8MBB/G Ortho-Trauma Surgerical and the 14th of May is my first day on 7MBD/E Thoracic/Vascular Intensive Care Unit.
That means I got the job I interviewed for! I found out last night while I was watching Gaving throw discus, heehee. I am excited, yet it's bittersweet as well. I really love the people I work with and it's hard to leave a place you've been, kinda like the last day of high school, sorta in a way. I don't hate the work, I don't hate anything about, I just want to move on to new things and see what happens. I don't want to work ortho my whole life, so why not get started on something new now. I read a stat once that, on average, a nurse has a new job every 3 years! Obviously some people work places for a bunch of years, but I guess it's 3 on average. I feel like I'm very glad I started where I did. I don't think it gets much more tough than ortho, so I feel like I learned a ton and got SO much experience. That makes it hard to leave too, cuz I actually know what I'm doing now and can help the newer people, but I will eventually know what I'm doing on my new unit, after months of confusion and frustration I'm sure.
So yeh, I'll be in a 3mo. program consisting of mostly classes, there's a lot more to learn now, and will also include time on the floor. I'm leaving my unit so quick, because those classes start mid-May, otherwise I'd have to wait until August, so my awesome nurse manager let me go early. I think I'll be on my new unit learning a bit for a few weeks and then classes start. School all over again. The nurse educator there told me she'll have me make drug cards to memorize! Fun times. I'm excited though. One girl from ortho just moved up there and Tiffany, a friend from WSU nursing just got a job there too, so I know a few faces. I told some people at work today, I don't really like telling them, it makes me sad! But everyone's been so sweet about it. Another bonus, today we got a 2$ raise! S-core.
Welp, that's about it for now, I need to go wash 8 hours of bodily fluids off me, heehee, jk (sorta).
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Waka waka.
Here I am working the weekend. It was busy up until now, 4:30p, and I have 3 hours left to go.
Yesterday, Chris and I woke up early and went to Winona and took my dear cousin Kellie out for breakfast at Perkins. Then she had class so Chris and I walked around the lake, well, just a little ways around it, so that was fun, to just be in Winona. Then we came back home and worked out. Later on, we went to Austin to take Angie out to eat for her b-day! She chose to go to Culver's, it was fun, we had lots of laughs.
Thursday I dunno what I did, I can't remember. At some point Mom and I went to a movie, so that was coolio. My fam. is hanging out today in the cities (assuming Gavin's track meet didn't get cancelled) so I 'm jealous cuz I wanna go!
Wednesday I had my shadow on 7 Mary Brigh. It's somewhat intimidating cuz I know nothing, but everyone was very nice to me and everyone highly recommended that I work there. I got to see my friend Tiffany (from nursing school) she just started working there! I haven't heard about the job yet, I guess this week sometime? I've decided that if it's offerred to me, I'll take it. I'm very nervous though!
Ugh these 12 hour shifts are ridiculous. What I hate is going home and feeling like I need to go to bed in a few hours and then it just starts all over again, dumb. I just got asked if I wanted to stay until 11:00pm, um yeh, I'd love to.......
Mass is going on right now at St. Mary's and it's telecasted onto the TV. One of my patient's is watching it and a lady is singing non-stop very high pitched. I bet it sounds better in person. La la la la!!!!!!!!
I'm not real thrilled about the coming 2 weeks, they will be such a bummer, all I do is work. Ugh.
Well, I'm out of things to say. See ya alls later.
Yesterday, Chris and I woke up early and went to Winona and took my dear cousin Kellie out for breakfast at Perkins. Then she had class so Chris and I walked around the lake, well, just a little ways around it, so that was fun, to just be in Winona. Then we came back home and worked out. Later on, we went to Austin to take Angie out to eat for her b-day! She chose to go to Culver's, it was fun, we had lots of laughs.
Thursday I dunno what I did, I can't remember. At some point Mom and I went to a movie, so that was coolio. My fam. is hanging out today in the cities (assuming Gavin's track meet didn't get cancelled) so I 'm jealous cuz I wanna go!
Wednesday I had my shadow on 7 Mary Brigh. It's somewhat intimidating cuz I know nothing, but everyone was very nice to me and everyone highly recommended that I work there. I got to see my friend Tiffany (from nursing school) she just started working there! I haven't heard about the job yet, I guess this week sometime? I've decided that if it's offerred to me, I'll take it. I'm very nervous though!
Ugh these 12 hour shifts are ridiculous. What I hate is going home and feeling like I need to go to bed in a few hours and then it just starts all over again, dumb. I just got asked if I wanted to stay until 11:00pm, um yeh, I'd love to.......
Mass is going on right now at St. Mary's and it's telecasted onto the TV. One of my patient's is watching it and a lady is singing non-stop very high pitched. I bet it sounds better in person. La la la la!!!!!!!!
I'm not real thrilled about the coming 2 weeks, they will be such a bummer, all I do is work. Ugh.
Well, I'm out of things to say. See ya alls later.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Busy Busy Busy
It's Tuesday night, an hour before I leave for home! It's been a pretty busy past couple of nights here on 8MBB/G. I have a few days off here before I work the dreaded weekend! I work too many days in a row coming up here in the next couple weeks, so I'll try not to whine, but honestly it's gotta be harsh.
This past weekend was pretty fun. Saturday we had a little post-wedding get-together for my dad's cousin Randy and his new wife, that was nice to see them and eat at Mr. Pizza! Then I traveled over to see Kelsey at her baby shower! Her baby's due May 2nd! So soon! That was fun too! Chris worked that night so I hung out with Mom for a while and then Jill, Dora, Denise, and I watched Juno at Jill's house. Sunday Chris and I had 4 kiddies in Sunday school and ate lunch at the mall with Gramps H. and Gramps & Gran E.! Fun fun. Then we hung out with Mom and Dad and had a yummy supper there and played outside in the glorious whether.
Monday, I had Kid's Hope and Chris bought a new lap top! I won't go into great length, but his old one had big issues and it was just time. It's so necessary for him to have a working computer for his classes, so I'm glad he can work on his lap top in peace now! It makes my lap top look old! Then I worked and that was that.
Today was dull, I had by BLS (basic life support) renewal class. Even though it's the renewal class, it's still too long, from 8:30-11:15, I passed and am officially renewed and ready to recussitate, heehee. Sorry, not a laughing matter. Then I did nothing and Chris was at work/school all day. I am now at work as well. It's been busy even though I only have 2 patietnts. One is on the commode every 2 hours, not kidding, and the other is just quite complicated, but very nice. They're both nice, so that's nice, very nice, nice, nice. Ugh, I'm tired! I can't wait to go home!
Tomorrow, Chris and I have the dentist @ 9:30 then I'm shadowing a nurse on 7MB (the unit I applied for) from 3p-7:30p. I'm assuming I'll hear about the job after my shadow at some point, which I'm glad about cuz I want to do the shadow first to make sure it's not absolutely something I don't want to get myself into. Then Thursday I have a class at St. Mary's, only for an hour though, then I acutally get one day off, Friday, then I work Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Mon (2hr class), Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, yeh shoot me in the head. Thats 10 days at the hospital with 3 days off during those 10, that kills me man, I'll die, ugh ugh ugh. I'm signing up every single day for an EA in hopes that I get at least one. I did not sign myself up for this mind you, they completely switched everything around that I requested, oh well, I'll live. Actually I do get several extra hours on my time card though, for all the classes and the shadowing, so that's a bonus, but honestly, not worth it.
Luckily, I get to go have a fun sleep over on the 2nd to the 3rd with Megan, Alexandra, and I think Kate too (Jamey's fiancee) It's an Erickson side girls sleepover! I'm so excited! I hope Kelsey doesn't have her baby while I'm gone!!! Then we're having a party for Grandpa H., I think it's his 75th, on the 4th! So that'll be fun too.
Well, I have a feeling within the next few minutes I'll need to go help my patient to the commode for the 7th time this shift! That's a record for sure. So, I better wrap this up. Peace out.
This past weekend was pretty fun. Saturday we had a little post-wedding get-together for my dad's cousin Randy and his new wife, that was nice to see them and eat at Mr. Pizza! Then I traveled over to see Kelsey at her baby shower! Her baby's due May 2nd! So soon! That was fun too! Chris worked that night so I hung out with Mom for a while and then Jill, Dora, Denise, and I watched Juno at Jill's house. Sunday Chris and I had 4 kiddies in Sunday school and ate lunch at the mall with Gramps H. and Gramps & Gran E.! Fun fun. Then we hung out with Mom and Dad and had a yummy supper there and played outside in the glorious whether.
Monday, I had Kid's Hope and Chris bought a new lap top! I won't go into great length, but his old one had big issues and it was just time. It's so necessary for him to have a working computer for his classes, so I'm glad he can work on his lap top in peace now! It makes my lap top look old! Then I worked and that was that.
Today was dull, I had by BLS (basic life support) renewal class. Even though it's the renewal class, it's still too long, from 8:30-11:15, I passed and am officially renewed and ready to recussitate, heehee. Sorry, not a laughing matter. Then I did nothing and Chris was at work/school all day. I am now at work as well. It's been busy even though I only have 2 patietnts. One is on the commode every 2 hours, not kidding, and the other is just quite complicated, but very nice. They're both nice, so that's nice, very nice, nice, nice. Ugh, I'm tired! I can't wait to go home!
Tomorrow, Chris and I have the dentist @ 9:30 then I'm shadowing a nurse on 7MB (the unit I applied for) from 3p-7:30p. I'm assuming I'll hear about the job after my shadow at some point, which I'm glad about cuz I want to do the shadow first to make sure it's not absolutely something I don't want to get myself into. Then Thursday I have a class at St. Mary's, only for an hour though, then I acutally get one day off, Friday, then I work Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Mon (2hr class), Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, yeh shoot me in the head. Thats 10 days at the hospital with 3 days off during those 10, that kills me man, I'll die, ugh ugh ugh. I'm signing up every single day for an EA in hopes that I get at least one. I did not sign myself up for this mind you, they completely switched everything around that I requested, oh well, I'll live. Actually I do get several extra hours on my time card though, for all the classes and the shadowing, so that's a bonus, but honestly, not worth it.
Luckily, I get to go have a fun sleep over on the 2nd to the 3rd with Megan, Alexandra, and I think Kate too (Jamey's fiancee) It's an Erickson side girls sleepover! I'm so excited! I hope Kelsey doesn't have her baby while I'm gone!!! Then we're having a party for Grandpa H., I think it's his 75th, on the 4th! So that'll be fun too.
Well, I have a feeling within the next few minutes I'll need to go help my patient to the commode for the 7th time this shift! That's a record for sure. So, I better wrap this up. Peace out.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Tell me how you have been ethically morally stressfully difficultly challengingly communicationally coherent in the work place???
Sigh....
It's over! And was it nearly as bad as I thought it would be and did I really need to get that nervous, NO! But I can't help it and I'm sure I'll be just as nervous when the next interview rolls around some day!
Chris dropped me off for my interview and I went up and met the nurse manager who instantly gave me a tour and explained how the floor runs, so that was fun to start off with. Eventually I was in a room with him, the nurse educator, a RN on the unit. They asked me 10 questions having to do with situations and how I handled them. I was fairly quick to think of things, I few weren't as great as others and one question had to be re-phased for me and I blanked out on it, but it went pretty good. The hard question had something to do with how I coped with a difficult stressful situation all while being ethical....ummm....lemme think.......stressful, ethical, difficult....I managed to come up with something. heehee.
I got a lot of details on the difficult 13ish weeks that shall lie ahead of me if I should get the job. It involves an extensive critical care class as well as time on the unit with a preceptor. I was told it would be stressful and intimidating! Yikes, well I guess I already knew that, all jobs are! I liked the feel of the unit and the people seem nice so far. So, we'll see. However, the next set of classes start in less than a month, so in order to get in on those classes, my current nurse manager will have to let me go before the usual 30 days. Otherwise I cannot start until August, but I suppose that wouldn't be the end of the world. I get to shadow a nurse for 4 hours on the 23rd so I can get a better feel of what it's like there, which I'm really glad about! Thanks to all who sent me prayers/encouarging words, it went well.
Other than that, my dear husband and I went to Culv's for lunch and who did we see? Hut and Eric! So, Chris invited them on over to our table and we all at together. I told Hut we couldn't have planned it better if we tried! They got a new car, a Cruiser, and it's cute!
Then I had to go to work and here I am, but I only have a few minutes left! Then I shall have the weekend off. The next 3 weeks I feel like I'll have a very busy time, like a bunch of shifts in a row and classes and such, oh well, I'll live. Ideally, I would like to work NEVER and just hang out at home, hahah, but yeh, that's not realistic!
Love ya alls, Luv, Brie
It's over! And was it nearly as bad as I thought it would be and did I really need to get that nervous, NO! But I can't help it and I'm sure I'll be just as nervous when the next interview rolls around some day!
Chris dropped me off for my interview and I went up and met the nurse manager who instantly gave me a tour and explained how the floor runs, so that was fun to start off with. Eventually I was in a room with him, the nurse educator, a RN on the unit. They asked me 10 questions having to do with situations and how I handled them. I was fairly quick to think of things, I few weren't as great as others and one question had to be re-phased for me and I blanked out on it, but it went pretty good. The hard question had something to do with how I coped with a difficult stressful situation all while being ethical....ummm....lemme think.......stressful, ethical, difficult....I managed to come up with something. heehee.
I got a lot of details on the difficult 13ish weeks that shall lie ahead of me if I should get the job. It involves an extensive critical care class as well as time on the unit with a preceptor. I was told it would be stressful and intimidating! Yikes, well I guess I already knew that, all jobs are! I liked the feel of the unit and the people seem nice so far. So, we'll see. However, the next set of classes start in less than a month, so in order to get in on those classes, my current nurse manager will have to let me go before the usual 30 days. Otherwise I cannot start until August, but I suppose that wouldn't be the end of the world. I get to shadow a nurse for 4 hours on the 23rd so I can get a better feel of what it's like there, which I'm really glad about! Thanks to all who sent me prayers/encouarging words, it went well.
Other than that, my dear husband and I went to Culv's for lunch and who did we see? Hut and Eric! So, Chris invited them on over to our table and we all at together. I told Hut we couldn't have planned it better if we tried! They got a new car, a Cruiser, and it's cute!
Then I had to go to work and here I am, but I only have a few minutes left! Then I shall have the weekend off. The next 3 weeks I feel like I'll have a very busy time, like a bunch of shifts in a row and classes and such, oh well, I'll live. Ideally, I would like to work NEVER and just hang out at home, hahah, but yeh, that's not realistic!
Love ya alls, Luv, Brie
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Today
Today has been somewhat uneventful: Woke up at 10:00, watched ER until 11:00, worked out until 12:00, ate lunch with Chris at Erb's until about 1:00ish. Chris left for Kid's Hope, I got ready for work. Chris came home from Kid's Hope early cuz his kid was unavailable and I left for work. Now I'm at work! Wow! Facinating.
Tonight started out slow and got busy and is now a bit slow again. We got a direct admission from a patient from Arizona! They jetted themselves over here and then the crew jetted themselves back to AZ, weird huh, all in one night. Now it's almost 9, so a couple hours left. Then I'll go home and watch The Office and ER that I taped. I am so tired and sore!
Okay, I can't take it anymore, I have to tell everyone, to get the nerves out....I have an interview in the am! I didn't wanna say anything cuz there's some peeps from work that read my blog, so if you work with me, please keep this on the down low, I beg you, as I don't want the whole world to know just yet. I'm interviewing with the nurse manager of Mary Brigh 7DE, Thoracic/Vascular Intensive Care Unit. I'm excited at the prospect of a new job! However, I get myself so worked up thinking about it. I am so nervous and sick feeling right now. I know it'll be fine, no matter what happens, so I just have to keep telling myself that. Basically I think I'll be fine as long as my mind doesn't blank out on me. You see, our interviews here are always "behavioral" meaning they'll ask me a bunch of questions about specific situations that I've had and how I dealt with them. For example "Tell me about a time when you had to communicate in a difficult circumstance or tell me about a time when you had a difficultly with a patient's family member. I should be so lucky if I get those questions, cuz I have an answer, but I know they'll ask me ones I'm not ready for, cuz I don't know what they're gonna ask. And it's always nerve racking cuz there'll be not only the nurse manager, but a few others in on the interview, all staring at me! Yikes. Say a prayer for me please!
Ok, that's it. I will probably write tomorrow night while I'm at work too and at that time, I'll be done with the interview and about a million times happier! Adios.
Tonight started out slow and got busy and is now a bit slow again. We got a direct admission from a patient from Arizona! They jetted themselves over here and then the crew jetted themselves back to AZ, weird huh, all in one night. Now it's almost 9, so a couple hours left. Then I'll go home and watch The Office and ER that I taped. I am so tired and sore!
Okay, I can't take it anymore, I have to tell everyone, to get the nerves out....I have an interview in the am! I didn't wanna say anything cuz there's some peeps from work that read my blog, so if you work with me, please keep this on the down low, I beg you, as I don't want the whole world to know just yet. I'm interviewing with the nurse manager of Mary Brigh 7DE, Thoracic/Vascular Intensive Care Unit. I'm excited at the prospect of a new job! However, I get myself so worked up thinking about it. I am so nervous and sick feeling right now. I know it'll be fine, no matter what happens, so I just have to keep telling myself that. Basically I think I'll be fine as long as my mind doesn't blank out on me. You see, our interviews here are always "behavioral" meaning they'll ask me a bunch of questions about specific situations that I've had and how I dealt with them. For example "Tell me about a time when you had to communicate in a difficult circumstance or tell me about a time when you had a difficultly with a patient's family member. I should be so lucky if I get those questions, cuz I have an answer, but I know they'll ask me ones I'm not ready for, cuz I don't know what they're gonna ask. And it's always nerve racking cuz there'll be not only the nurse manager, but a few others in on the interview, all staring at me! Yikes. Say a prayer for me please!
Ok, that's it. I will probably write tomorrow night while I'm at work too and at that time, I'll be done with the interview and about a million times happier! Adios.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Off With His Hand!
Just kidding. Chris is very well and all is fine.
We spent a few hours in the cast room this am and got to hang out with the PA for Shin's hand service (not that anyone cares, but yeh). He explained to Chris that his finger is like 2mm shorter now, but they're not concerned enough to operate, that that would be more risky. So, here he is with his first cast of possibly 3 that he'll have for a grand total of probably 6 wks. Poor Chris, no b-ball, but at least he don't gotta get cut into. They said they will operate in 2 wks if when they take the cast off they find that the bone has moved, but it probably won't!
Chris has a mouth-full of cookie right here, sorry Chris, I had to take the pic anyways.
In other news, I hung out with Mom today and we gotted some presents for upcoming showers/weddings and ate lunch at Culver's. It was fun, but I got so sleepy, probably just from getting up so early, that I had a 45 min nap, which I never do. I got woked up, thankfully or I would have slept all evening, by Dora, my dearest friend who came over to borrow the last 2 seasons of Gilmore from me, heehee.
Then later Chris and I played a little tennis cuz it was so darn nice out. He was able to do good despite his hand, but we didn't play too long. Then we watched Idol results at Mom and Dad's. Bye bye Kristy Lee. Gav and I ventured out and got frostys/pop for the fam and now here we are back at home for the night.
That's all folks! Have a wonderful rest of the week!
We spent a few hours in the cast room this am and got to hang out with the PA for Shin's hand service (not that anyone cares, but yeh). He explained to Chris that his finger is like 2mm shorter now, but they're not concerned enough to operate, that that would be more risky. So, here he is with his first cast of possibly 3 that he'll have for a grand total of probably 6 wks. Poor Chris, no b-ball, but at least he don't gotta get cut into. They said they will operate in 2 wks if when they take the cast off they find that the bone has moved, but it probably won't!
Chris has a mouth-full of cookie right here, sorry Chris, I had to take the pic anyways.
In other news, I hung out with Mom today and we gotted some presents for upcoming showers/weddings and ate lunch at Culver's. It was fun, but I got so sleepy, probably just from getting up so early, that I had a 45 min nap, which I never do. I got woked up, thankfully or I would have slept all evening, by Dora, my dearest friend who came over to borrow the last 2 seasons of Gilmore from me, heehee.
Then later Chris and I played a little tennis cuz it was so darn nice out. He was able to do good despite his hand, but we didn't play too long. Then we watched Idol results at Mom and Dad's. Bye bye Kristy Lee. Gav and I ventured out and got frostys/pop for the fam and now here we are back at home for the night.
That's all folks! Have a wonderful rest of the week!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Metacarpals, Babies, and Quiznos.
Oh Let's See:
Last Wed: Chris broke his left 4th metacarpal (ring finger bone in the hand) playing basketball. We thought it was perhaps a jam or sprain, but no, it's completely broken in 2. Tomorrow morning we are scheduled 1st case in the St. Mary's cast room with Dr. Shin's service! This is funny cuz I take care of "hand" patients all the time that had a surgery done by Dr. Shin, so it hits close to home. They will take off the splint, re-x-ray and decide to either put on a hard cast for several weeks or operate by pinning the bone together. Apparently the fracture is near the joint and small hand bones, which is why surgery may be necessary. No eating after midnight for Chris! I would feel very shocked if he had to go the OR. And I don't really like the thought of it either! But I know he'll be in good hands. If he did go to the OR it would expected that he would not have general anesthesia and that he would go home right afterwards, which is good! If he has to stay overnight, guess where he'd be....my floor! heehee. I asked him if he would like me to be his nurse and he said yes, heehee, how weird/fun would that be. But let's hope he just goes home, I can take good care of him there too!
I worked Thurs and Fri which was just fine and then Friday night we had the Kid's Hope bowling party. Chris and I supervised/watched 4 girls, including Nyombia, bowl for a few hours and eat pizza too. They were pretty cute and I think they had fun.
Saturday was fun, I mostly just got to hang out with Chris. That night we went to the Newsboys concert! It was a lot of fun. We realized we basically had front row seats, as wonderful as that sounds, it's not wonderful in real life. It's too loud to function, so we moved back to an empty area and it was entirely more enjoyable! We had lots of fun singin' along with em.
Sunday we only had little Addison in Sunday school and we taught her about Jesus walking on water. It was pretty funny, she was scared of Chris' splint and stated, "I don't want to touch it" heehee. Then we ate at the mall of course and I think that was the night we played some games with Ma and Pa :)
Yesterday, Monday, oh what did I do....well I had Kid's Hope, Nyombia was especially non-focused, but it was fun anyway. Then Chris and I worked out and such. We had Dairy Queen and said a quick hello to my fam. Then I watched my fav, John and Kate plus 8. Oh shoot, I just realized I forgot to tape Idol tonight, sad day.
Today: I got to babysit a baby! A friend from work, Erin, brought her little 4mo. boy over to hang out with me for a couple hours while she did some work related things at St. Mary's. We had lots of fun playing with teething rings and a bear, changing diapers, drinking milk, and sleeping, with minimal crying. He smiles so easily and is so cute! My mom came over after a bit to hang out with us, which was fun. It made me realize I'll be very happy to have her around when I have a baby someday (hopefully). Also, Kelsey is due very very soon! 3 weeks! I hope I can be helpful to her as I am learning more and more how difficult it is as first. Luckily she'll have much help from Jeff and both their parents as well. But it's fun that she lives so close so I can go hang with her and da baby. After babysitting was over and I plesantly surprised to get to have lunch with the great Casey Bish! We went to Quiznos and hung out for an hour before I had to come to work. We officially had not seen each other in 1 mo, Hut's wedding. It was great to catch up, I missed her!
I got to work this evening and had to float to neurology for 4 hours. It's a nice unit, it's 2 years old and has the lift system like ours. The patients are a different, but somewhat alike in that they almost all need help getting out of bed in the same way that my patients do. It was nice and the nurses were friendly. Now I'm back up on my unit. I only have 2 patients, one's asleep for the night, so of course, I have 2 hours of boredom left. Bah.
Well I have tomorrow off and will be back in the Mary Brigh building at 7:15 am with Chris and then I work Thurs/Fri evening so it's a nice work week, I don't mind it. Then I think I work Mon/Tues evening and the weekend days. (someone wanted to work my overnights and I was like, um, yes, please do!) This coming weekend is Kelsey's baby shower, so that should be fun!
Welp, I wish I had more to say to pass the time, but I don't, so I'll give ya some updates on Chris when I find out! Adios dear friends.
PS: Anne, you were the inspiration for my blog, I felt the need to update after talking to you, heehee.
Last Wed: Chris broke his left 4th metacarpal (ring finger bone in the hand) playing basketball. We thought it was perhaps a jam or sprain, but no, it's completely broken in 2. Tomorrow morning we are scheduled 1st case in the St. Mary's cast room with Dr. Shin's service! This is funny cuz I take care of "hand" patients all the time that had a surgery done by Dr. Shin, so it hits close to home. They will take off the splint, re-x-ray and decide to either put on a hard cast for several weeks or operate by pinning the bone together. Apparently the fracture is near the joint and small hand bones, which is why surgery may be necessary. No eating after midnight for Chris! I would feel very shocked if he had to go the OR. And I don't really like the thought of it either! But I know he'll be in good hands. If he did go to the OR it would expected that he would not have general anesthesia and that he would go home right afterwards, which is good! If he has to stay overnight, guess where he'd be....my floor! heehee. I asked him if he would like me to be his nurse and he said yes, heehee, how weird/fun would that be. But let's hope he just goes home, I can take good care of him there too!
I worked Thurs and Fri which was just fine and then Friday night we had the Kid's Hope bowling party. Chris and I supervised/watched 4 girls, including Nyombia, bowl for a few hours and eat pizza too. They were pretty cute and I think they had fun.
Saturday was fun, I mostly just got to hang out with Chris. That night we went to the Newsboys concert! It was a lot of fun. We realized we basically had front row seats, as wonderful as that sounds, it's not wonderful in real life. It's too loud to function, so we moved back to an empty area and it was entirely more enjoyable! We had lots of fun singin' along with em.
Sunday we only had little Addison in Sunday school and we taught her about Jesus walking on water. It was pretty funny, she was scared of Chris' splint and stated, "I don't want to touch it" heehee. Then we ate at the mall of course and I think that was the night we played some games with Ma and Pa :)
Yesterday, Monday, oh what did I do....well I had Kid's Hope, Nyombia was especially non-focused, but it was fun anyway. Then Chris and I worked out and such. We had Dairy Queen and said a quick hello to my fam. Then I watched my fav, John and Kate plus 8. Oh shoot, I just realized I forgot to tape Idol tonight, sad day.
Today: I got to babysit a baby! A friend from work, Erin, brought her little 4mo. boy over to hang out with me for a couple hours while she did some work related things at St. Mary's. We had lots of fun playing with teething rings and a bear, changing diapers, drinking milk, and sleeping, with minimal crying. He smiles so easily and is so cute! My mom came over after a bit to hang out with us, which was fun. It made me realize I'll be very happy to have her around when I have a baby someday (hopefully). Also, Kelsey is due very very soon! 3 weeks! I hope I can be helpful to her as I am learning more and more how difficult it is as first. Luckily she'll have much help from Jeff and both their parents as well. But it's fun that she lives so close so I can go hang with her and da baby. After babysitting was over and I plesantly surprised to get to have lunch with the great Casey Bish! We went to Quiznos and hung out for an hour before I had to come to work. We officially had not seen each other in 1 mo, Hut's wedding. It was great to catch up, I missed her!
I got to work this evening and had to float to neurology for 4 hours. It's a nice unit, it's 2 years old and has the lift system like ours. The patients are a different, but somewhat alike in that they almost all need help getting out of bed in the same way that my patients do. It was nice and the nurses were friendly. Now I'm back up on my unit. I only have 2 patients, one's asleep for the night, so of course, I have 2 hours of boredom left. Bah.
Well I have tomorrow off and will be back in the Mary Brigh building at 7:15 am with Chris and then I work Thurs/Fri evening so it's a nice work week, I don't mind it. Then I think I work Mon/Tues evening and the weekend days. (someone wanted to work my overnights and I was like, um, yes, please do!) This coming weekend is Kelsey's baby shower, so that should be fun!
Welp, I wish I had more to say to pass the time, but I don't, so I'll give ya some updates on Chris when I find out! Adios dear friends.
PS: Anne, you were the inspiration for my blog, I felt the need to update after talking to you, heehee.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Cool dude.
Who watched Idol last night and was shocked and amazed by the fact that they all sang Shout to the Lord??? That was awesome :)
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Snow Day! Well, the same great feeling as a snow day.
Mom said she was sick of seeing her anniversary blog, so I'm updating so she can see something new.
Today began tragically, as I had to get up for work. Here's what I do: I set my alarm for 5am, then re-set it for 5:45am. Then I'm in the bathroom until about 5:55. Then I eat and get everything ready to go, this only takes until 6:03ish. Then from 6:03 to 6:25 I sleep on the couch until my alarm (cell phone) goes off and it's time to go. Some would say....well you only use 18 minutes total of time to get ready, why don't you just set your alarm once and stay in bed until 6:07, get ready and go and 6:25? It's too painful that way, I need to get out of bed knowing I can sleep more on the couch later, hahah.
Anyhoo, so this morning, it was 6:15am and I was fast asleep on the couch when my phone goes off. My brain new it wasn't the alarm ring, but the "someone's calling me" ring. I opened it up and what number did I see? 538-1700, YES! This is the number that appears when you get any call from Mayo. And what did the say you ask "Brianna would you like a 4-hour EA?" "Yes!" I replied with much enthusiasm. And then life is once again filled with happines and a very large burden lifts off my back as I scamper back up to bed. I cannot help but giggle and squirm around until Chris notices and wakes up. I have to tell him, otherwise he'd wake up later and freak out that I overslept or something. Next, comes waiting to hear if I get the last 4 hours of my shift off. So, I got another call from the 1700 number at 9:30, "Brianna would you like to stay home for the rest of your shift?" "Why yes I would and thank you!" WHOOP! So, I got up and watched ER until 11:00! Score, I love it. And I'm getting paid to do it. I love that we can take random vacation days. This is quite rare, but I guess that's what makes it so special. I guess I was first on the list to stay home, sweet huh?
Now I have to make something of my day or I'll feel sluggy. So, Chris has left for b-ball and work, so I better go work-out.
What else is new.....Mom and Gavin are back home from their trips and they had fun and something exciting is that Chris and I bought a video camera! We've been wanting one for a long time (well I think I've been wanting it for a long time) and finally we found a good deal and felt educated enough to pick one out that works for us. Yip yip hooray! I think it's cute, it's not overly fancy or anything because we're not overly loaded with money to spare, but it'll do just fine.
Here's a pick of it.....
Ok peeps I better go work out and be productive. Adios.
Today began tragically, as I had to get up for work. Here's what I do: I set my alarm for 5am, then re-set it for 5:45am. Then I'm in the bathroom until about 5:55. Then I eat and get everything ready to go, this only takes until 6:03ish. Then from 6:03 to 6:25 I sleep on the couch until my alarm (cell phone) goes off and it's time to go. Some would say....well you only use 18 minutes total of time to get ready, why don't you just set your alarm once and stay in bed until 6:07, get ready and go and 6:25? It's too painful that way, I need to get out of bed knowing I can sleep more on the couch later, hahah.
Anyhoo, so this morning, it was 6:15am and I was fast asleep on the couch when my phone goes off. My brain new it wasn't the alarm ring, but the "someone's calling me" ring. I opened it up and what number did I see? 538-1700, YES! This is the number that appears when you get any call from Mayo. And what did the say you ask "Brianna would you like a 4-hour EA?" "Yes!" I replied with much enthusiasm. And then life is once again filled with happines and a very large burden lifts off my back as I scamper back up to bed. I cannot help but giggle and squirm around until Chris notices and wakes up. I have to tell him, otherwise he'd wake up later and freak out that I overslept or something. Next, comes waiting to hear if I get the last 4 hours of my shift off. So, I got another call from the 1700 number at 9:30, "Brianna would you like to stay home for the rest of your shift?" "Why yes I would and thank you!" WHOOP! So, I got up and watched ER until 11:00! Score, I love it. And I'm getting paid to do it. I love that we can take random vacation days. This is quite rare, but I guess that's what makes it so special. I guess I was first on the list to stay home, sweet huh?
Now I have to make something of my day or I'll feel sluggy. So, Chris has left for b-ball and work, so I better go work-out.
What else is new.....Mom and Gavin are back home from their trips and they had fun and something exciting is that Chris and I bought a video camera! We've been wanting one for a long time (well I think I've been wanting it for a long time) and finally we found a good deal and felt educated enough to pick one out that works for us. Yip yip hooray! I think it's cute, it's not overly fancy or anything because we're not overly loaded with money to spare, but it'll do just fine.
Here's a pick of it.....
Ok peeps I better go work out and be productive. Adios.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Happy 26 Years Together Mom and Dad!!!
My Mommy and Daddy got married on April 3rd 1982!!! So, it's not quite the big day, but Mom's leaving for Washington D.C. on the 3rd, so I'm putting this up early! I am very proud of my parents for their long and wonderful marriage! I know they have an amazing marriage and I think they raised up 3 pretty good kids too, well, I'm questionable...
Thank you for being the bestest parents ever!!! Love you both so much and congratulations!
PS: I dunno why the pics insist on being little, oh well!
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