February :)

Wow, so its been a while. I am such a slacker! I think I left off at Jason's Birthday party. It was a huge success! There were around 35 people there and we had a great time. I still have a hard time believing that my baby boy is a year old. Time flies. He is in Georgia for the week and is very missed by Galen and I! We needed the break to work on our house though. It's a construction zone around here. The master bedroom needed the most work when we bought the trailer so we decided to put it off until we got settled in and have been staying in the middle bedroom. Over a year later, we are finally getting ready to move in to the master bed/bath! Jason has so many toys that you can hardly walk in his room and my school work has taken over the living room so it will be nice to have a larger room for Jason and an "office" for myself! This month has been an exciting month at school. I have learned how to give an injection, insert a catheter, put on sterile gloves, and open a sterile field. We also started clinicals! I think that I am really going to enjoy my clinical location for this semester and learn a lot of things that I did not expect to learn. I have started to make friends with some people outside of my "clique" and I have to say, I have a pretty awesome class. Right now, I am lacking in motivation to study and really need to get back into my good habits. I don't know what is going on with that. Wow, I just realized how much I am saying "I", but hey, it's MY blog, right?! Ha. I got a phone call from my Pops yesterday saying that he has been accepted into a clinical trial! What a blessing from God! He has been weighing heavy on my mind for the past week or so, and honestly I was starting to lose faith that he would be accepted. Getting that phone call was the best thing that has happened to me in awhile! He sounded as if he had just won the lottery! I can only imagine how him and my Nuna were feeling. They had been waiting for that call for so long. My day only got better after finding out that John Mayer will be coming to Tuscaloosa on April 26th! Violet and I are ordering our tickets on Friday at 10:00 AM. This girl is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer

Nursing School: Week 3 and a few extras

I have finished week three of nursing school. It sure will be nice to count my time passed as semesters rather than weeks! We took our first official test Tuesday and I made a B. We also took a dose calculations test on which I made a 100!! Still waiting on my first health assessment test grade from Thursday. So far I have learned how to perform hygiene care for patients, take all of the vital signs, assess pain, and calculate oral medication doses. On Tuesday we had the privilege of listening to a heart murmur and an abdominal aortic aneurism. It was an amazing first experience with real patients. Me, being the soft hearted person that I am, teared up as we were told the story of the aneurism and the surgery that will soon follow. I am going to have to man up! Or at least save my tears for the ride home. My Pops was told this week that he was rejected for the clinical trial to treat his IPF due to inconclusive lab results. I dont really understand why they would not just run the dang test again but hopefully if we are persistent we can get him in the trial. I keep trying to tell myself that everything happens for a reason. Tonight we had dinner with my Oma, who is leaving to move to North Carolina tomorrow. I sure am going to miss her. It seems like the more time that goes by, the less ties I have to Sylacauga. I have also been planning Jason's first birthday party. My baby will be one year old a week from today. That is so hard to believe. Reading over this blog I am realizing what a long and stressful week this week has been. No wonder I am so tired. This is my first blog from my new Dell Inspiron. Mine crashed a few months ago. I am getting ready to go cuddle up with my boys and crash for the night. I have been a bad girl, and did not study tonight. Guess that means I'll have to double up tomorrow, test Tuesday! Story of my life....

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Maya Angelou.

My First Blog

Okay so this is my first blog ever! Hopefully I will get the hang of it soon. I started nursing school last week, and BOY is it overwhelming! I knew that it would be hard, but never imagined that I would spend every spare moment studying. So far everyone in our class seems just as stressed as I am though, so I guess there is nothing to worry about. We had our first quiz yesterday in Intro to Pharmacology and I made an 88. I am definitely not used to making anything less than an A, but from what I hear I better get used to it! Another thing I was clueless about it how expensive nursing school would be. So far I have forked out close to 2000 for this semester alone and still have many things to purchase in the next week or two. Jason also started daycare last week and is loving it! Honestly, so am I. It was so stressful trying to find a sitter five days a week and is nice knowing that I wont have to miss class due to being with a babysitter. We have a new tooth coming in on top and are very very close to walking! Being around other kids has made him want to talk more and try harder to walk. My little boy is growing up! I hope that I can stick with the blogging thing. I feel like it will be a good way to vent after a hard day and interesting to come back to and reread years down the road. :)

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." Nelson Mandela