FuzzyLilBunny , 27

This semester has been - dare i say - cake. Something strange is going on. Our ACLS class is starting up though and I think that's going to be the kicker.

Despite the hectic clinical schedule, things have gone pretty OK so far. I've done my Spinal Cord Unit rotation at tthe VA and my NICU rotations at one hospital, plus some boring things in between. I love both >_< It's definitely not making a decision easier. i guess what it's going to come down to is 1) if I have enough experience/personality/brains for them to hire me in SCU by the time David is home from deployment and 2) if I get the "need more experience" response, if we decide to move to Saint Augustine or not. I could only do SCU if I stayed in Tampa (or moved to Miami, and I'm not moving out of state), so then I would continue working on the neonatal pediatric specialist route, which is mostly an experience and an exam. The first hospital on my list of places to apply to already has a couple people from the class before me working in their pediatric wing and they've been graduated a little more than six months? So that would be a good place for me to start.

If all of the hiring freezes go away by the time I graduate, that is.

The past month or so has been really great, though. Not so much stress from school, I've been able to hang out with friends again, David made our anniversary a week long, lmao. Can you believe we've been married over four years now? I can't. But yeah, the sweetest thing he did was a sunset picnic out at Ft. DeSoto where we were suppose to have our ceremony at (which they've ruined now, btw, FAIL). I totally didn't expect it. It was awesome.

I've started to work out some, mostly aerobics. I've out on almost 15lbs since i've started this program. It puts me in the "normal" range for the first time in my life, but knowing that is ALL food, is not OK. So I'm hoping to burn some of the fat off and replace it with muscle. You'd think all the walking I do at clinical would help (i walk about 4-6 miles on an eight hour shift, depending on the hospital) but it doesn't. WALKING IS CRAP. lol.

Oh, I'm FIANLLY going to New York for spring break to meet Katie! In like...22 days. My ticket has been bought and the boy is staying home, lol.

my blog. It gets updated more than every other month, I swear! and pictures on flickr.

love you and miss some of you, dammit. We need to keep in touch better >_<

This semester has been - dare i say - cake. Something strange is going on. Our ACLS class is starting up though and I think that's going to be the kicker.

Despite the hectic clinical schedule, things have gone pretty OK so far. I've done my Spinal Cord Unit rotation at tthe VA and my NICU rotations at one hospital, plus some boring things in between. I love both >_< It's definitely not making a decision easier. i guess what it's going to come down to is 1) if I have enough experience/personality/brains for them to hire me in SCU by the time David is home from deployment and 2) if I get the "need more experience" response, if we decide to move to Saint Augustine or not. I could only do SCU if I stayed in Tampa (or moved to Miami, and I'm not moving out of state), so then I would continue working on the neonatal pediatric specialist route, which is mostly an experience and an exam. The first hospital on my list of places to apply to already has a couple people from the class before me working in their pediatric wing and they've been graduated a little more than six months? So that would be a good place for me to start.

If all of the hiring freezes go away by the time I graduate, that is.

The past month or so has been really great, though. Not so much stress from school, I've been able to hang out with friends again, David made our anniversary a week long, lmao. Can you believe we've been married over four years now? I can't. But yeah, the sweetest thing he did was a sunset picnic out at Ft. DeSoto where we were suppose to have our ceremony at (which they've ruined now, btw, FAIL). I totally didn't expect it. It was awesome.

I've started to work out some, mostly aerobics. I've out on almost 15lbs since i've started this program. It puts me in the "normal" range for the first time in my life, but knowing that is ALL food, is not OK. So I'm hoping to burn some of the fat off and replace it with muscle. You'd think all the walking I do at clinical would help (i walk about 4-6 miles on an eight hour shift, depending on the hospital) but it doesn't. WALKING IS CRAP. lol.

Oh, I'm FIANLLY going to New York for spring break to meet Katie! In like...22 days. My ticket has been bought and the boy is staying home, lol.

my blog. It gets updated more than every other month, I swear! and pictures on flickr.

love you and miss some of you, dammit. We need to keep in touch better >_<

Shit, it's been awhile. Again.

Winter break is here and I have almost a month to wind down before jumping head first into school stuff again. My brain doesn't know what to do with itself. On top of that, I can't sleep lately. I need to get something to help, but I keep putting it off.

Yesterday I received a lovely reminder that David's deployment is less than a year away now. The current assignment is Kuwait (but will be in and out of Iraq) supposedly December 1st. The date's been changed so much though it could actually be tomorrow for all I know. At least by then I'll be done with school and working instead of sitting on kiwi all day.

I'm not looking forward to Christmas. I'm going up to Gainesville for the day. We're broke as hell and can't afford presents this year - not even for the kids - so I'm just waiting for Asshat Grandpa to say something again this year. So help me God if he does. And if politics get brought up..oh God.

I think I'm going to hide outside the whole time.

On top of it, David is working 6a-6p Christmas day. So much for our last Christmas together before deployment.

CHRISTMAS IS CLEARLY FULL OF WIN THIS YEAR.

Anyway.

So yeah, I scraped by in the hell that was that Intensive Care class and aced neo/peds. I did a 12 hour day in november and it also ended up being a surprise pediatric day. I loved it. and that scares me >_< We'll "officially" be starting our specialty rotations this coming semester. Our clinical schedule is alone is ridiculous:

5 NICU (neonatal) days
4 PICU (pediatric) days
4 ICU (adult) days (this is what we did this past semester)
2 SCU (spinal cord injury) days
2 PFT (pulmonary function) days
2 sleep lab nights
1 intubation day
1 HBO (hyperbaric chamber) day
1 homecare day
1 cath lab day
1 rehab day
1 QC (something in the blood gas lab?) day

I'm hoping I enjoy the SCU rotation. The VA has a one year residency program that will get have you certified as a neurorespiratory therapist once completed. I just don't know if that's something I really want to try and handle while David's deployed however, because most of the SCI patients are combat related. Then again, I've always been pretty good at not doing the whole "OMG that could be David" thing, so I think I'll be alright.

And have mercy if I fall in love with the NICU, too. How come I keep finding myself enjoying the things I would have picked last, oh, six months ago?

Ugh, I could write a book just babbling about school related shit. I'm freakin' brainwashed.

Happy Holidays :)

PS: obligatory Quarantine link!

Shit, it's been awhile. Again.

Winter break is here and I have almost a month to wind down before jumping head first into school stuff again. My brain doesn't know what to do with itself. On top of that, I can't sleep lately. I need to get something to help, but I keep putting it off.

Yesterday I received a lovely reminder that David's deployment is less than a year away now. The current assignment is Kuwait (but will be in and out of Iraq) supposedly December 1st. The date's been changed so much though it could actually be tomorrow for all I know. At least by then I'll be done with school and working instead of sitting on kiwi all day.

I'm not looking forward to Christmas. I'm going up to Gainesville for the day. We're broke as hell and can't afford presents this year - not even for the kids - so I'm just waiting for Asshat Grandpa to say something again this year. So help me God if he does. And if politics get brought up..oh God.

I think I'm going to hide outside the whole time.

On top of it, David is working 6a-6p Christmas day. So much for our last Christmas together before deployment.

CHRISTMAS IS CLEARLY FULL OF WIN THIS YEAR.

Anyway.

So yeah, I scraped by in the hell that was that Intensive Care class and aced neo/peds. I did a 12 hour day in november and it also ended up being a surprise pediatric day. I loved it. and that scares me >_< We'll "officially" be starting our specialty rotations this coming semester. Our clinical schedule is alone is ridiculous:

5 NICU (neonatal) days
4 PICU (pediatric) days
4 ICU (adult) days (this is what we did this past semester)
2 SCU (spinal cord injury) days
2 PFT (pulmonary function) days
2 sleep lab nights
1 intubation day
1 HBO (hyperbaric chamber) day
1 homecare day
1 cath lab day
1 rehab day
1 QC (something in the blood gas lab?) day

I'm hoping I enjoy the SCU rotation. The VA has a one year residency program that will get have you certified as a neurorespiratory therapist once completed. I just don't know if that's something I really want to try and handle while David's deployed however, because most of the SCI patients are combat related. Then again, I've always been pretty good at not doing the whole "OMG that could be David" thing, so I think I'll be alright.

And have mercy if I fall in love with the NICU, too. How come I keep finding myself enjoying the things I would have picked last, oh, six months ago?

Ugh, I could write a book just babbling about school related shit. I'm freakin' brainwashed.

Happy Holidays :)

PS: obligatory Quarantine link!

I was enticed into making an entry.

"for the love of god now is the time to speak up people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

oh yes, this surely makes me want to do as you demand!

People are annoyed that Intensive Care isn't as easy as they think it should be and want to make it hell for our professor (NOT Professor Espresso, go figure) by going to ze boss instead of, you know, her. Her class is ass backwards - I'll be the first to admit that - but some are getting a little ridiculous.

Basically, we have to read the chapter(s) ourselves, take a test on the material and THEN she teaches it. It's basically self study, which sucks mostly because the book is like trying to read a medical dictionary. The tests are worth 20% of our grade, which is a big deal, but the midterm and final are the main focus.

So all during clinical Boy wouldn't STFU about how we HAVE to write Professor Espresso an email telling him what an awful job Little Grr is doing. Sit down, take your midterm, see where you REALLY are in the class, THEN bitch plz.

Oh, I guess I felt the need to rant. I didn't see that one coming.

Neo/Peds is going great; I'm loving it. The first bit was hard on my emotionally to study (it's uh, a long story? heh) but it's overall a great course. My favorite so far.

Did I bitch in the last entry about all the service learning/teaching/papers/presentations I have to do this semester? Either way, I'm not going to bore you with it again/this time.

Enough about school. Wait, do I have a life outside of school?

David and Rick are doing a wedding up in St. Augustine Halloween weekend and so I'll be helping with that. They want me to take photos now as well, but we'll see. I don't have much experience with portraits and the like.

We met up with Angela again at Sea World...a little over a month ago. We might see her again when we make this trip to St. Augustine, too!

We also took my sisters bowling a couple weekends ago...that's where the user photo is from. They're probably huge compared to the last time I posted photos of them here, haha.

I'm switching platforms for Q (almost a year!). XMB is getting too irritating to deal with + there's a lot of things I've been wanting to add and change, so hopefully by the middle of the month it'll be finished. I thought about changing the name, but nah. Quarantine is stuck.

Now please, talk about me!