My days

I have been studying like a madwoman and working late at night...I am tired and the darn pool is still not closed..I never have time for it...but I will get it done sooner or later...the weather is very fall like today...cloudy and chilly but I like it...as long as it is not windy which would only put more leaves in the pool :( ..

I got one wrong on the last test...I think it's an A but I won't find out till friday....tomorrow I will be in the hospital again but this time I will have a patient...I am a little anxious about it...

for the rest of the day I will clean and do some wash and cook chili for dinner...I will work with Tyler on his homework and work more towards closing the pool...oooopppsss...I should go check it now...the filter is not running very well...see ya

I'm Back

these past few weeks have been very hectic but i am back now...i have been so busy that i have not even turned on the computer for the past week...but i am here now...where do i begin...ok..here goes..

my last patient in the nursing home was a sweet old woman that could do nothing for herself...she simply exists...but i think to her family it means much more to have her here on earth...i fed, bathed, changed her and her linens...i did an assessment of her...i spoke gently and soothingly...what more could i do...i made her comfortable...
it's sad that the poor 93 year old woman was in such a state...

this week i had clinical in the hospital...it was orientation for the hospital so we had no patients...we were just taken on a tour so that we could familiarize ourselves with the hospital and the proceedures... after the tour we went back to the school for a lab practical..which i was not aware of...so i did no studying for...but i did fine with it...
after the practical one instructor asked if it was worth stressing over...i laughed and said that i was not stressed at all since i had not known we were doing it then...but i think everyone did just fine with the test...studying or no studying..

there was an exam and a test and a math test that i DID study for...in fact much of my time has been spent studying...i got a 93 on the math exam..YEAH!!!!! there were 2 people that i heard of that failed the test and had to drop the class...i feel so bad for them...it could very well have easily been me...on the exam..i think i got a B but there are some problems with the scan tron that scans the exams so they all had to be graded by hand...so maybe i got a better grade...i am keeping my fingers crossed...and i am not sure how i did on the test...i will find out the grade tomorrow..

enough about school...i was busy also because of my youngest sons bday party..ok..i know his bday is in august but whenever we have the kiddie party in august all of his friends are on vacation..so..we decided to have it in the fall...and since halloween is in the fall..we made it a halloween party..the kids had a great time but they are getting older and they did not want to play the games that had for them...but they enjoyed making the crafts and they liked the food...we served..witches finger (chicken wings), dracula eyes (sliced wraps with cream cheese, black olives and pimientos), werewolf bones (small egg rolls), and witches brew...which did not turn out that great..it was apple cider, vanilla ice cream and 7up...the cider and the ice cream alone would have been better...anyway..the party was on saturday and on sunday we went to a reinactment of the revolutionary war which took place in the town that my sister lives in...so we went there for all the festivities then we went to my sisters for dinner...

that has been my days in a nutshell...that is besides all the other things that already keep me busy...

The nursing home....

Hi there...well..yesterday was the first day at the nursing home...I was very excited to be going there so I had a hard time sleeping the night before...I was like a kid on Christmas eve....my patient was an elderly man who had been an immigration lawyer for the government...he had been a very active man...but a few years ago he was diagnosed with parkinsons disease...now he can do nothing for himself...he is a complete care patient...he has a feeding tube and cannot perform even the simplest tasks for himself...he is a very sweet man who cannot communicate very much...he may answer yes or no from time to time and he tries to talk but he is difficult to understand...he tried to help by raising his arms when being bathed or dressed...i felt sorry for him because he had such an active wonderful life and now he was in this state...it makes you appreciate your own life and you realize how precious life is...live each day to the fullest for who knows what tomorrow may bring...

Now...since my patient was tube fed I had nothing to do at lunch time so I offered to help another patient...I was assigned what looked to be a very sweet little old woman...LOOKS CAN BE VERY DECEIVING...she was in fact very sweet...for about a millisecond...then she wanted to kill me and break my legs and she wanted to get those people over at the other table because she did not like them...then she was sweet again...I was warned that she liked to punch and kick and to be careful of her...but...in spite of it all...I wanted to help her and take care of her...so after I tried to feed her the lunch, (which she did NOT want at all...she told me to eat it...) I found myself checking on her throghout the rest of the day...

I felt good about the day and now I am looking forward to going back again next week...

this is my blog for the day...over and out

My Blog

Hello there to one and all...as if...I am Babsie and this is my blog..a week ago I had no idea what a blog was and now here I am blogging...

Well..tomorrow I will have my first day of clinicals in the nursing home...I am very excited about it and am looking forward to spending a rich and rewarding day taking care and assessing a nice, kind, lovely elderly woman...but anyone that knows me surely knows the reality of the situation...I am sure to get a cratchety old man that craps himself and curses and spits at me...I will let you know what happens...but for now I am off to help my son, Tyler, do his project for school...oh joy of joys...I get way to into these projects and expect nothing less than perfection...poor Tyler...the nine year old sweet little boy will be sobbing soon because he put too much glue on the dicot seeds :) I will control my obssesive behavior and let him do most of the project without interfering too much..

well...I am outie...I will keep you posted on the lastest