Well I'm back in the swing of school. I can't believe 2 weeks have gone by already! Tomorrow is our first tests in
Patho and
Pharm. Notice I'm blogging instead of studying :) I'm already counting down the weeks until this quarter is over too. Spring quarter is always the hardest for me to stay focused. The weather is getting nicer and I want to do spring cleaning and play in the yard, get my garden beds ready for planting and all that fun stuff. This year I'm going to do a big garden with my mom at her house too. She has room for a HUGE garden and I want to grow
lot's of veggies for fresh over the summer and freezing and canning for next year.
The last 2 weeks have been great in school. I passed my dosage comp test for IV solutions and my IV tubing start test. I can now hang
IV's in the hospital. This week we'll be learning
Cath and
NG insertions! I find this so cool. I've noticed that some people are getting a little nervous about hanging out with me though :)
Lucy had a party for her 15
th birthday
friday night. I had several teenage girls playing Guitar Hero 3 and watching scary movies all night at my house. I really have to get my butt in gear and study today! I'll post pictures of her party when I get them from her.
This is a page I did with pics of Alex when he was a little guy. Long before he got speeding tickets that he will have to pay himself!!!!! He was so cute :) The kit is by
KimB.
I did this page last night after I studied some. I was cruising the freebie sites and downloaded a template to make a sliced picture, but it was for a
photoshop program and I couldn't get it to work with my
PSP sooooo I decided to figure out how to make my own sliced photo :) I used frames by Misty Cato and the papers are from Amber
Clegg Designs, flowers and splat by sunflowers at
hotspotscraps and the cute little birds are from
feifeistuff. The picture is me last summer on the coast.
And this is my
clincial group from last quarter. We went to lunch after our last clinical day. I've had great groups and
instructures this year.
At first I stood on the deck and threw the ball for Haley. That is a tennis ball in her mouth, not a snowball!
After a bit we went up the hill to throw the ball. Now we're back in and I'm having coffee and Haley is pouting because she thinks we should be back out in the snow. 
This week we get back in the hospital with patients! Very exciting! We are able to do much more care now. We learned Foley's and NG tubes this week. I'm good on the dummies in the lab, but I need real patients to practice on. I can't find anyone at home to let me practice on them and I've noticed even the animals are starting to sleep with one eye open! Monday I get to go over my Patho exam and see if I can make a case to get any points back. I've heard many students talking about how low their scores were on this test and the Patho teacher say this was the hardest test of the year. I heard from several people the Pharm teacher thinks that the Patho test was too hard for us and we should make a case that those questions were out of scope for 1st year students. If I can get credit for 2 questions back I'll be back in the B's and will feel better, but mostly I want to see what I missed. I really felt like I had a good handle on understanding the subject matter, most of which dealt with fluid balance and shifts.
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