The Week In a Nutshell

Well, this week has had it's ups and downs. 1st....the worst thing ....my beautiful bunny has passed away. I am so sad and all I can do is cry. He passed away in the middle of the night just last night. I only discovered that he was ill last night but it was too late to call the Dr. I stayed with him for most of the night and I hoped that he would be ok in the morning but when I checked on him at 6am he had already passed. I have no idea how I will tell the kids because they went to the dads for the weekend and they don't know yet. I am so sick about it. He was fine the day before and hopping around owning the house just like always. The dogs and the cats knew who the boss was and it was always the littlest guy. His name was Hershey because he was chocolate colored and a dwarf so he looked like a little hershey kiss. Hershey would sleep in the GREAT big dog bed and the huge dogs would sit on the floor next to the bed waiting for the bunny to get up so they could have their bed back. He always ran up to me when I came into the room...he liked to climb in my lap so that I could pet him. I will miss my little buddy very much but I will never forget the sweet little guy. But I have to stop talking about him because I don't want to cry anymore.

There were some good things this week...we are currently waiting for a huge snowstorm...they are claiming that we will get 6-12 inches and possibly up to 20 inches...to me that translates that we will get a coating of snow. They ALWAYS promise all this snow then we get nothing. I think they do it so that people will go the store and buy bread and milk and then to the gas station for what else...gas...even though these people will not drive ANYWHERE once the snow begins but they have to have full tanks. ME...I go wherever in the snow...the streets are plowed and salted...and when it is snowing the store are empty. If you know me you know that I love the snow...WHEN it snows I will take some pictures for everyone to enjoy. Maybe if we are lucky it will snow hard enough to have off on monday...YEA!!!!!

That brings up the subject of school. Last weekend I was in the whole weekend studying for the first exam. I was so nervous about it and I studied my bijut off. I tried not to think about the exam after we took it because we do not get the results until friday after the exam...that was yesterday...and I got a B...I was so happy but the best thing..and I have to brag because it was so difficult...is the multiple multiples. Usually they have 2-3 on the exam but on this one there were 11...they are really hard because you have to pick every single right answer to the question...if you miss one or add one then you get the whole thing wrong. I got every single one of them right....I was so happy about that!!!! Elena says that is reason enough for celebration.

There is no test or exam this week but I will study and try to get ahead on the homework for the trends class. It is hard to believe that the first rotation is over already...next will be critical care unit...not looking forward to it and extremely nervous about it but I will get through it. We graduate in 13 more weeks, there are only 3 more rotations, 10 more clinical weeks, 20 lectures, 2 exams, one final, four tests, 1 senior rotation (which I will problably do on the floor I externed on) and 1 spring break....looking forward to that. Then the boards...but we will worry about that when the time comes.

My back is still bothering me but not like it was a few weeks ago...the stomach is slowly getting better...the asthma is improving and I am slowly but surely feeling better. Amazing how your body responds to illness, how one thing is connected to another and how when 1 thing goes wrong it sets off a train reaction and other things just follow along.

As usual we had lunch yesterday at the buffet and my mom came this time and Jim was able to be there... I always look forward to lunch with family on fridays.

Well...when/if it snows...I will post some pics. I have to get to the bank before it closes and I want to get some studying done.

Have a good day...ciao