Posted in Catching up, Just me, Nursey-ness, Randomness on Sep 21st, 2009
I have 16 hours of PALS over the next two days. That’s the acronym for Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Does it sound intimidating to you too? Advanced LIFE SUPPORT? As in knowing how to take care of a child in an emergency situation that is trying to die right in front of you? Because I [...]
Posted in Nursey-ness, Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2009
I feel the need to clarify something from the last post, because if it was unclear to one person then it was probably unclear to other people too. Let me state: The death of that boy was devastating. I didn’t like being there, I didn’t really want to be there and I wasn’t excited about [...]
Posted in Nursey-ness on Sep 8th, 2009
11 PM Sunday night. I was there. There in a room full of doctors and nurses as we pumped, pushed and pounded on the chest of a four year boy. For nine minutes. I watched while he never took a breath. For nine whole minutes. It felt like a blink. He didn’t come back. He [...]
Posted in Just me, Nursey-ness on Jul 19th, 2009
This is my 322nd post. That doesn’t mean much but I thought I’d tell you since it’s news to me. If you look at the number of posts from last year you would think this number should be much higher. I can’t pinpoint exactly what’s been going on that has made my posting wane. I [...]
Posted in Catching up, Nursey-ness on Jul 14th, 2009
I think I swore in the last post, ONE WEEK AGO that I would be writing soon, and getting back on the blogging band wagon. I hate to ruin my rep for being an absolute Saint, but I am a known liar. Working nights without a husband here is kicking my butt. I am busy, [...]
Posted in Nursey-ness on Jun 14th, 2009
Posted in Just me, Nursey-ness on Apr 10th, 2009
Today was one of those days, not SUPER DUPER GREAT! not ughhhhh, not bad. Just really good. And looooong. It was clinical 9 of 12 for this semester and my last day working with the nurse I’ve been working with since January. She has been an amazing preceptor and I am thankful for such a [...]
Posted in HoboBaby, My Little Lady, Nursey-ness, Pictures on Apr 6th, 2009
Another great weekend with the Hobo, another job interview, another job offer and NO completed school work to show for it. Sounds like a success wouldn’t you say? I now have two job offers to choose from. One in the Pediatric Emergency Room (Pedi ER), the other in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Decisions, [...]
Posted in Catching up, Just me, Nursey-ness, School, Tiddly bits on Apr 1st, 2009
Oh my, what a week. I’m feeling whelmed in both the good and bad sense of the word. Did you know we found a house to rent in San Antonio? Well, we found a house to rent in San Antonio! It’s wonderful, huge, in a great GATED neighborhood. It has a backyard, an Avelyn room, [...]
Posted in Catching up, HoboBaby, Just me, My Little Lady, Nursey-ness, Pictures, School on Mar 14th, 2009
Whew. This week has been a whirlwind. I want to tell you about all the wild and crazy fun family things we did this week but we didn’t really do any of those. We did have some regular fun family things we did a lot of. Like playing on the floor, going out to eat, [...]
