Saturday Afternoon

It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon. My husband is with my daughter at her Girl Scout cookie booth. My son is playing his DS. I am studying. I have a test Thursday covering gastrointestinal, hematological, cardiovascular and cancer. That is alot of ground to cover! Yesterday and today I am studying the cardiovascular. It's so complicated! But I am getting an understanding of it. This morning we went to my daughter's last basketball game, her team party and then to my son's basketball game. That's why I asked my husband to fill in for me at the cookie booth! (I need to study!!!!!) My daughter got a ball in the basket today during her game and then later managed to get the ball away from the other team. This season is her first time playing and she is finally getting good at it. She wants to play again so I am signing her up to play again in April. Her face just absolutely lite up today when she got that goal. She was beaming. I have my window open and can here to squirrels running around like crazy out there. It feels like spring and it soon will be spring. Hhhmmm, next spring I'll be an RN.

Long Time

I passed that class I took during the first part of Fall 2009. It was a tough one, the second big Med/Surg course. But, I passed it. Yay! I loved my clinical instructor. She was so helpful yet layed back. After that I started the second course of the fall semester. I was two weeks into it when I was diagnosed with a blood clot behind my knee. I had to be on bedrest for three weeks so of course I had to withdraw from the class. That sucks big time because it means I won't finish school until August instead of May. Damn those birth control pills! So, I am on Coumadin, a blood thinner and have to wear a compression stocking on my leg ALL the time. And I have to keep it elevated as much as possible. In December I had another ultrasound and the clot had shrunk a little and had started letting some blood flow through. I have another ultrasound in March. Hopefully it has gone away altogether. I never knew how long the darn things take to go away! Having a blood clot feels like having a time bomb in your body. You never know when it may break off and go to your lungs or brain. Very scary. It has really been a life altering experience.

In December I got the clearance from my doctor to return to school in January. I am almost finished with the class I had withdrawn from. It has been an awesome class, high risk ob and peds. I especially love the pediatric patients. I think that is where I want to end up working. Next week is the last week of class/clinical, then the following Tuesday is our final exam. It has really flown by. I will miss my little patients.