I returned safely from my trip to Akron Children's Hospital. It is a wonderful, family centered care facility! They have so many units and so many neat things for kids and their families! The best thing was the hands on care we got to perform as nursing students! I got to see new things and experience new things! I got to work with ventilators (a machine that breathes for you or helps you breathe) and I got to work with kids! It was so much fun to play with the children there and to get to take care of a patient who you got to be silly with! There were down sides though. Really tough down sides.
The sad part of this whole experience was the children who were there without any body. Because of HIPAA I can't explain about any of the patients but I can tell you it's hard to see sick children with no one. I can't imagine the stories that go with some of the children or the reasons why but I am upset that they were alone. It broke my heart to see them there. I can't comprehend how someone could let a healthy child go let alone a sick one. I could never do that. Just leave my child in the hospital day in and day out to be cared for by nurses and doctors and not participate in their care! But as a nurse I have to be non-judgmental of these parents.
Do you know how hard it is to not judge the parents! I keep trying to tell myself that they have their reasons but honestly being myself I can't find a single one that makes it ok! I am struggling really hard to understand it all. I know I can't change it but I really wish I could. My heart goes out to the children of the world that are forgotten.
All in all I did have a good experience. I learned a lot and I struggled! Which makes one heck of a clinical! Thanks to Akron Children's! They have a wonderful staff and they are terrific health care providers and I am lucky to have been able to work with them for 22.5 hours!
Well, I have a blister on the bottom of my left foot that popped right before we left Akron and the sleep number beds in the hotel were terrible! (Or I had my sleep number wrong! LOL) I am very tired and I have to finish a lot of homework for Monday! Please pray for the children and have a good evening!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Leaving My Husband Behind
So, tomorrow I leave for my clinicals in Akron that is 3 hours away. Since I have lived with my husband (a year and a half) I have not spent a night away from him. This really freaks me out. I don't know how I will react. I hope I can hold myself together and not cry all day or night. I know I will be very cold. He keeps me very warm at night. But it's still scary to think that I will be without him for 2 days. I know it's not that long but it's nerve racking. It's also nerve racking to have to be going to Akron. I hate bad weather and of course it's calling for snow on the 2 days we are there. Next, I am terrified to work with kids. I really don't want to have to give them medications. Administering medications are scary enough but once you add being a kid with the mix it's gets really scary. I am praying God will cut me some slack and bring me a piece of mind. But all this kid talk brings me to some other thoughts.
Pregnancy. It is all around me right now. I know 9 pregnant women! One is my little sister. On top of all these pregnant women, people keep asking me when my hubby and I will be trying for children. First of all I think this is no one's business but mine and my husbands. Second I don't think people can ever try for children. You either have a child or you don't. You can stop preventing from not having children but I don't think you can try. My answer to this question is when God says let there be child! But for now we are preventing pregnancy to the best of our abilities, so please quit asking!
Pregnancy. It is all around me right now. I know 9 pregnant women! One is my little sister. On top of all these pregnant women, people keep asking me when my hubby and I will be trying for children. First of all I think this is no one's business but mine and my husbands. Second I don't think people can ever try for children. You either have a child or you don't. You can stop preventing from not having children but I don't think you can try. My answer to this question is when God says let there be child! But for now we are preventing pregnancy to the best of our abilities, so please quit asking!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Hello and Welcome!
Hello, welcome to my blog. It is a blog about daily life of a newlywed! There will also be some information about the stress of nursing school. I decided to start this blog because I think it would benefit lots of people. It would help my family to stay in touch, help my friends to stay in touch, and help strangers understand the up's and down's of a newlywed! I hope you all enjoy it! Please leave comments!
Feb. 22, 2011
I had a fair day. I went to OB Lab (maternal/child nursing class) and feel like I learned nothing. We did assessments on a newborn baby. However, the baby was a fake baby and looked like it was a crack baby! It was amusing to listen to the instructor talk about the crack baby robot thing while the warmer it was laying in was beeping and she had no idea how to turn it off! After lab we had Micro Lab. We had 2 tests... I got a 88% on the first one and a 96% on the second one. Then we got out some bacteria and put them on trays to grow. Very boring... oh, and we looked at slides of different things. The whole time I was in class today all I could think about was my house.
We live in a condo and I am having a very hard time keeping up on housework. I feel so swamped by school and housework and keeping my husband and I close it's really stressing me out. On top of all this I just quit smoking a week ago. I switched to the electronic cigarettes and it has been going well but I really miss going outside every hour and spending quality talk time with my husband. That is probably what I miss most is the small hourly chats we had. When we are inside we tend to keep ourseleves busy with just some small talk. But when we had our hour breaks we had some deep conversations. However, with qutting smoking I am able to get up earlier in the day and I can go to bed with him and we talk for about 30 mins. to an hour.
Back to the house work... we have a small condo. It has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a basement, and 2 bathrooms and it makes me feel overwhelmed. I could clean for 3-5 hours and still not be done. The laundry always seems to build up and the laundry has this tendency to show up in every room of the house! I feel like if I can get the laundry under control then I can get the rest of the house in line. Our house is not really dirty it's more cluttered.
The papers is the next big thing after the laundry. It also appears everywhere! I have started a to-do but it's just keeps growing after I cross something off. Then to top it all off my husband is only one working right now. Due to this he is very tired when he comes home and does not want to clean. He also makes dinner because I can't cook! So, I figure if he brings home the money and cooks dinner then I feel like I should keep the house clean. I feel terribly when I cannot keep up on the house. I feel like I let him down or rub it in his face that I can sit around all day and study while he is working his behind off and then he has to come home and work some more. I just wish one day that I could get everything on the list done and then be able to keep it up without having to spend a week cleaning it again.I just don't want to disappoint him. I want to keep him as happy as makes me. Until next time!
Feb. 22, 2011
I had a fair day. I went to OB Lab (maternal/child nursing class) and feel like I learned nothing. We did assessments on a newborn baby. However, the baby was a fake baby and looked like it was a crack baby! It was amusing to listen to the instructor talk about the crack baby robot thing while the warmer it was laying in was beeping and she had no idea how to turn it off! After lab we had Micro Lab. We had 2 tests... I got a 88% on the first one and a 96% on the second one. Then we got out some bacteria and put them on trays to grow. Very boring... oh, and we looked at slides of different things. The whole time I was in class today all I could think about was my house.
We live in a condo and I am having a very hard time keeping up on housework. I feel so swamped by school and housework and keeping my husband and I close it's really stressing me out. On top of all this I just quit smoking a week ago. I switched to the electronic cigarettes and it has been going well but I really miss going outside every hour and spending quality talk time with my husband. That is probably what I miss most is the small hourly chats we had. When we are inside we tend to keep ourseleves busy with just some small talk. But when we had our hour breaks we had some deep conversations. However, with qutting smoking I am able to get up earlier in the day and I can go to bed with him and we talk for about 30 mins. to an hour.
Back to the house work... we have a small condo. It has 2 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a basement, and 2 bathrooms and it makes me feel overwhelmed. I could clean for 3-5 hours and still not be done. The laundry always seems to build up and the laundry has this tendency to show up in every room of the house! I feel like if I can get the laundry under control then I can get the rest of the house in line. Our house is not really dirty it's more cluttered.
The papers is the next big thing after the laundry. It also appears everywhere! I have started a to-do but it's just keeps growing after I cross something off. Then to top it all off my husband is only one working right now. Due to this he is very tired when he comes home and does not want to clean. He also makes dinner because I can't cook! So, I figure if he brings home the money and cooks dinner then I feel like I should keep the house clean. I feel terribly when I cannot keep up on the house. I feel like I let him down or rub it in his face that I can sit around all day and study while he is working his behind off and then he has to come home and work some more. I just wish one day that I could get everything on the list done and then be able to keep it up without having to spend a week cleaning it again.I just don't want to disappoint him. I want to keep him as happy as makes me. Until next time!
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