| Seattle part II |
[04 Oct 2008|10:20pm] |
Feeding birds on the car ferry
Beautiful bay scenery
Humongous bridge
Saba's first time in the ocean
Family picture
Outside the casino
Playing at the river
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| pictures from Seattle |
[04 Oct 2008|10:03pm] |
Saba in Macnamara Terminal
Let's roll
Mom with 6-toed Chairman Meow
Saba learning to BBQ
Chairman on the hot tub
Beautiful sunset view from mom's backyard
Enjoying the hot tub under the stars... Saba's first time
Feeding the neighbor's horse
Seattle bridge in the background
Raising the bar... well, lowering it
OMG... car! Run!!!
The gals
We didn't get far like this...
Fish faces at the salmon hatchery
Saba at the locks
Saba in Pike's Place Market
Picnic in the park
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| back to haunt |
[13 Sep 2008|02:03pm] |
My dreams always catch up with me. I'm always running, accusing, trying desperately to make people believe me. I'm trying to escape, then, if no one will help me. He's taken my keys. I find them. He's messed with my car. I fix it. I go roaring off, down the road. I wake up. For once I don't want to linger in bed, I want to get out of it, and quickly.
I will post Seattle pics soon. I've been lazy about it, I guess, and working a lot.
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| the bitter and sweet of it |
[03 Sep 2008|04:12pm] |
I made it through a seven-day-in-a-row work week. It was all fine and dandy until yesterday. Read all the hairy details on my nursing blog. It was the first day since my first day as a nurse that I almost cried.
There have been some lighter moments, though. On Labor Day we brought in junk food and all wore our hair in pigtails. Even the clerks.
I work a day shift Thursday and then we're off to Seattle! I'm soooo excited! I just need a break, a change of scenery, for a few days. Plus I always love to fly.
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| oh to be a nurse |
[01 Sep 2008|10:29am] |
I wake up at 6am. It's my fifth day in a row, out of seven. Second twelve hour shift. My work clothes are in the dryer but I still tear the dresser apart looking for another shirt. Sometimes I eat cereal before I go, sometimes I use the milk at work and eat it after report. Once, I tripped on the bottom step on the way to my car, and tore a hole in my pants. At 7, I'm trying to figure out if my assignment is ok, and usually I just say "ok whatever, I'll take it". Now I'm thinking about a cup of coffee, if I can get one off the patient cart, or if I'll try to make some myself. Sometimes it's ok, sometimes I burn it. I don't know how I do that, because I do it the same way every time. I just push "start brew" and sometimes it burns. What a mystery.
I post my strips, I do my assessments, I dole out pills, I fill out care plans, I get walks and baths finished. It's usually nine or ten when I sit down to chart. But no one else is there. Am I just fast? Or am I forgetting something? I answer my lights. I read my patients' histories and labs. I think about more coffee. The rest of the day is meds, walks, and damage control.
Report is when it all comes clear. Did I really tke care of everything? Make things easier on the next nurse? When I get home my feet are achy, despite the ted hose and extra support in my expensive walking shoes. I sometimes still smell c-diff stool. I take off my clothes first thing, but I'm too tired to shower. I feel too tired to eat, but I usually do. I try to stay awake for a while, for Saba's sake. But sleep comes easy, after days like this. I don't need to take anything, or stay up reading long.
I got to sleep in today, ahhh the joy.
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| one month gone |
[13 Aug 2008|11:57am] |
I looked at this thing and realized I haven't updated in nearly a month. I've been getting my feet under me at work, adjusting to being on my own, enjoying the challenges. It's all on my nursing blog.
Otherwise, I have been into the olympics. Slightly pissed that the Chinese gymnasts are about 12 years old and everyone knows it, but whatever. They are amazing. Swimming, volleyball, diving, it's all good. What else? I've been out at grandma's, I've been working, and that about sums it all up.
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| I'm a freakin' nurse! |
[15 Jul 2008|01:59pm] |
You can go here and type in my name to see my license number!
I'm a real nurse!!!
Edith Hoag-Godsey, RN, BSN
Heh heh heh...
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| the BIG one |
[11 Jul 2008|05:11pm] |
I took the NCLEX today, and it was quite possibly one of the scariest things I've ever done. I peed and still wanted to pee. I had to stop myself so many times and make myself take deep breaths and not rush. It was so much pressure! When the test shut off after the minimum, I was so relieved... at least the computer had made up it's mind about me, for better or worse. I got two subjects in particular that were asked to me several times, so I was getting worried.
I need to pass, because I never EVER want to do that again!
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| my rockin' two day vacation |
[06 Jul 2008|10:58am] |
Sarah, Saba, and I took off for a sweet two day vacation on Michigan's west coast. We left early friday morning for Sarah's parents' house in Ludington, just a block away from the Lake Michigan beach. On the way we stopped for a dune buggy ride at Mac's Dune Rides. Saba has never seen the ocean, or any lake that you couldn't see land on the side from the shore. I've been once before, when I was a child.
Ready to roll!
The windy waterfront ride
Frolicking on the beach
Saba and our dune buggy
It's not a desert, it's Michigan!
A couple innocent girls at a picnic table... ahem
Silliness
Sarah licks her Saba cone at the local "Whippy Dip"
After the dune rides, we went to Sarah's parents house, and found them hanging out at the local 4th of July parade. There was a clown band full of old men dressed in dresses and lingerie... sometimes I do love my country! After that, we hit the beach and headed toward the lighthouse.
The Ludington Lighthouse
Meetinis on a pier
Saba, Sarah, and Sara's mom Julie
After the lighthouse we went for ice cream, and then Sarah and I napped on the beach while Saba napped at home. Ahhh... nothing makes a vacation complete without a good beach nap in your bathing suit with the sun beating down and the sound of children playing in the waves. After naptime, it was pizza time. Sarah's dad took us to watch the car ferry leave for Wisconsin. We ate pizza and brownies, and then back to the beach to wait for fireworks.
Playing on the beach at sunset
See how sweet we are with each other... sometimes
Playing with sparklers
Ready for fireworks!
The next day we got up early and headed out to Michigan Adventure, Saba's first time at an amusement park. I have to say, they have really amped it up out there. Only $25 for the park AND the water park, which is awesome. We did a few small roller coasters and the log ride before hitting the water. The absolute best ride was a water slide that dumps you into a gigantic funnel. The slide is huge, and pitch black. You sit with up to 4 other people on a tube, and when it spits you out into the funnel you think you're practically going to go all the way around it. It was awesome and the only ride we did twice.
Saba was extremely brave and proud of herself for doing 'scary' things.
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| it's my party and I'll cry if I want to |
[03 Jul 2008|06:54pm] |
Hey hey... so yesterday was my 24th birthday. I worked a 12 with my favorite preceptor, who's also 24. She's my fave because she pretty much lets me take the reigns and do it all, and I did. I felt like a "real nurse". All she does is check my meds before I give them, and that's it. And in one week, I'll be taking my boards... woot! Then Erin and I will be like two nurses sharing one assignment, rock on!
Saba threw me a little party last night, complete with decorations and my favorite foods. Sarah even made me a gorgeous cake that said Samjhana. Those two are the best and I have a great time kickin' it with my girls, in English and Nepali. Tomorrow we are leaving for one night out at Sarah's cabin on Lake Michigan. Let the good times roll!
Today I got to do one of my favorite things, too... sleep all day.
Sometimes I feel weird coming home and hanging with my friends because I can't talk about work-stuff so much. They'd be grossed out or bored. I feel a separation forming between my work world and my home world. I find myself almost wishing I was back at work today, to hang out with Erin, Julie, Antoine, and all my other new friends, talking about gross yeast infections or gunky empyema tubes. I guess when things are new it can take over, but I'm sure the novelty will all wear off.
And I can talk about all that stuff with my mom and grandma, so I'm lucky.
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