Happy Birthday!

So considering I have been stricken with the flu for the last two days and still reeling from it, this will be short but this is an ode to my little brother whose birthday is TODAY! I did not forget just so you know...I've just been sick in bed.

Ode to the little brother, who makes me laugh and smile.
Who's marrying a sweet girl that compliments him well.

I'm happy your finding your happiness after twenty-something years.

Don't worry about getting older, cause we all feel old sometimes.

But laugh, smile and make the best of the times coming ahead.

Happy birthday to a great little brother.

See I think that sounds dorky...but I am not a writer I am a nurse.

Pondering today, tomorrow...and forever

I have found the past few days to be interesting. But this cartooon pretty much sums up a bit of the humor I have in my life at this moment and time. Which is seemingly teensy tiny. Mostly because I am tired and I need at least a week of sleep to catch up on the sleep I've missed since school began too.
Today I take my big Intramuscular test in Lab class. I am nervous because I can't find any of my notes anywhere and I don't know where I put them. I mean it's basic needle giving. So until then I will just go through it in my head until I am sure I know what I am doing. Plus we have lab time to practice too, so it can't be that challenging.

Superhero

Your Superhero Name is The Doctor Android

Your Superpower is Magic

Your Weakness is Clowns

Your Weapon is Your Toxic Gel

Your Mode of Transportation is Ambulance

Heehee I love these quizzes. I am definitely suppose to be in the medical field as you can tell by the previous quiz which said I should become a doctor now this one which superhero am I? It is telling me my superhero name is The Doctor Android and my mode of transportation is via ambulance...sweet deal! My weakness is clowns....it knows me all to well that I hate clowns.

I am intellectually intelligent

You Should Get a MD (Doctor of Medicine)
You're both compassionate and brilliant - a rare combination.You were born to be a doctor.

heehee I took a quiz...yes I am the brillant one. I totally am headed in the right direction I suppose. Just may take a while to get there.

Anyways saw the movie Premonition tonight! Oh my goodness it was all around a good movie. Yes I will admit they had me confused in the middle of the movie. Sandra Bullock is still my favorite actress. I won't tell you what the movies about if you want to see it, maybe in a week I will post why the ending should have been different!!

Alright it's late and I don't have anything else to say.

Highlights from the weekend.

So we started the weekend with a party. Ashley turned 21...boy is shse getting sooo old. Hehee just kidding. We had cake, we had balloons, we had friends and family gathered but there were no noise makers or party hats. I was quite excited that we had pulled this off without Ashley knowing either....maybe next year we can have the party hats....22 is a big deal right Ashley? For my coke fanatic brother, I bought Ashley some coke pj's. They are definitely stylish. I held off and only bought one pair though I knew Nathan would have liked me to buy all three different designs. Maybe for your honeymoon we'll find some more.

Next item on the agenda was the big secret hush hush proposal...yes I knew about it and I didn't tell a single soul!!! Aren't you proud of me...I knew for quite awhile and I was quite excited that Nathan showed me the ring too, oh my goodness it was gorgous and it looks good on Ashley's finger too. I am so excited that she's going to be my sister and I think the kiddo's are excited to have another auntie. So aside from school and all that, she'll be busy planning a wedding for a year from now. I personally think they should just elope and not tell anyone until they get back...heehee that is an idea you guys!!!!! So anyways that is the recap of highlights from this weekend....ps. Ashley this picture is just for you....I thought it was kind of funny. I couldn't find a groom with a ball and chain around his neck.

Well I am off to conqour my homework that I have procrastinated all weekend not to do and really regreting that decision now. To much to do with such little time to do it all in. I have too many assignments for tomorrow's clinical day. I will fill you in on how that goes tomorrow and continue my rant about nursing.

funny picture.

My friend told me about this website: www.postsecret.com and it's a community art project where people mail in their secrets on postcards...Well some of them can be pretty disturbing and some of them can be funny sometimes. They post new ones every sunday and this one was from this sunday...I think it's a little odd, but apparently it is someone's secret...now just wondering who fathered the kid. It's interesting too that people actually submit secrets to this venture, I think it would be fun to get a thousand postcards in the mail from all over the world. So that is my post for this morning, I am sure you will get another later on today when I am more awake....the time change honestly was the hardest thing to wake up to in the world! I lost an hour of sleep....so not happy about that.

Moderately Tired..maybe more

Hopefully the title of this blog can tell you how exactly I feel right now. I mean after all midnight is quickly approaching and I am tired. We had a party which was a lot of fun. I miss hanging out with people and since I've been so busy with school, I have lost my social life. Most days I feel like shutting and locking the door and sleeping. Working three- eight hour shifts in a week and then attending classes two days a week tires a person out easily.

I decided I really need to reconnect with people and try to attain a bit of a social night. We will be starting the National Gaming Challenge weekly...umm right?? Ok so maybe it won't be weekly cause students are worked to death sometimes. But I had fun playing games and hanging out and I think that is how saturday nights should be spent. What happened to the old days and playing connect four or monopoly or my personal favorite, the game of life?

We'll see if anything comes of this, there are a lot of new and interesting games out there to be played, I think we need to hold a gaming night to discover the joys of new games and not just old school games.

Anyways I'm tired and I need more than eight hours of sleep, I have a busy weekend which consists of writing my sociology paper and doing nursing care plans and maps and drug research...yay for me. Enjoy the weekend people!!!

Nursing has changed

I was browsing around the internet for some history on nursing and ofcourse we all know the famous Florence Nightingale, but there are ofcourse other nurses like Clara Barton. I wanted to find a picture to show us how much nursing has changed and I came across this picture.

This is a picture of a Navy Nurse. There is no way nurses look this way these days and infact the uniforms from these days are way more comfortable. But it seems that over time, nursing has definitely changed. We no longer see images of respect anymore.

Around school the biggest issue is the degration of nurses. How people look at a picture of a nurse and degrate them, especially when the era of the pin-up nurse was born. Around school the buzz is that a nurse should be respected and looked up on because we save lives, that is what we do. There were quite a few feminists and faculty after the students group who had decorated the bulletin boards with a poster with a nurse on it. The nurse in the picture did not show clevage or did not have a revealing figure or a short skirt on. Apparently the nursing students who complained were the ones who had been disciplined three years ago because they choose a pin-up nurse for their posters to hang on campus which totally degrated the nursing profession.

I do understand that they were trying to promote health as a whole instead of promoting activities involving alcohol. But when you see a nurse on a poster with free all you can drink alcohol obviously they will assume that the "Naughty nurses" are the ones who will be there. Yes that does then give nursing a bad rep.

So anyways I think the lesson has been learned with our students council that you can't just expect to put a nurse on a poster and say "free alcohol" and expect someone to not be offended. You represent all the nurses, not just our class of nursing students. I think they will also double check before they ever do something this dumb again.

Maybe there is time to change nursing back into what it was before.

This is the flu.

This is a picture of the influenze virus....it looks like a sponge, kind of ugly looking if you ask me.
but I think it is important for you to see what is really floating around inside your body when you get sick. Wash your hands people!!!

So it has been a somewhat long week. I am beginning to feel the effects of the flu! Yes I believe I have caught something from the patients that I care for and I am feeling sicker than I have all semester long.

The patients we care for are high susceptible and known carriers of any flu or bug known to man. So naturally having spent three days a week with these people I will ofcourse inhert some lovely germ/bug they are carrying.

What can you do about it though? I got my flu shot, it hasn't worked anyways. I think it's like placebo medication, you take it and it just makes you feel better but honestly doesn't really do anything for you other than make you think you are getting better or less susceptible to something.

I think someone should try to find a complete and total cure for stupid winter illnesses, we would be healthier all together if we could extinguish them and rid the earth of these nasty little creatures.

This is my blog

Aside from spending time trying to figure this whole blogging thing out, I think I may have finally have figured it out! It wasn't as complicated as it first seemed, though being tired sometimes slows a person's perceptions down.

So anyways I figured I would start a blog to follow me through all my adventures....which these days are few and far between, but maybe someday I will be ambitious and travel the world or as in my picture you can see, I would end up in a small straw hut village in Africa helping the sick and needy. First on my task to getting me there would be the completion of school. I am a first year nursing student, a long way off from graduating. Well ok it feels that way, it may not be so far off in the distance.

Life right now is filled with papers, planning, maps, learning new skills etc. School is hard, but I know I wouldn't want someone who didn't know their stuff taking care of me. But we were told it didn't matter what your grades were, because your grades don't make you a good nurse.

So anyways I should go do my studying. I get distracted easily sometimes from finishing my work.