Yesterday was my last day of school. Ever. (Well, unless I decide to become an NP someday, but that’s not even on my radar at this point). I walked across the campus after my test with a goofy smile on my face. I walked into the nursing school office with a grocery bag of obscenely [...]
Archive for April, 2008
So this is it
Posted in school on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unexpected
Posted in school on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing quite as wonderful as walking into a room, thinking I am going to help prepare a patient for an urgent c-section for fetal distress, only to watch in awe as, three minutes later, the mom delivers a healthy, squalling baby with Apgars of 8 and 9. Today was a good day. I wish all [...]
Posted in natural disasters on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday morning, around 0530, I was riffling through a pile of coats, muttering to myself because I could not find my brown sweater. The bedroom doorknob started to jiggle. I looked over at it, thinking my daughter was awake and trying to open the door. Then it stopped. I shrugged and walked into the living [...]
That’s what I call healthy self-esteem
Posted in Motherhood, family on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Me: Can you tell Daddy, “Thanks, you’re amazing”? (for cooking her a special treat).
Jubilee: Thanks, I’m amazing.
So glad
Posted in Motherhood, school, tired, work on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Do you like it here?” One of the nurses asked me in the break room yesterday. “I like it,” I said, and she glanced over at my preceptor with this amused look that said, “Your student is lying and is clearly not City Hospital material.” So I expounded on how I have signed up for [...]
Posted in God is love on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My aunt gave me a big book of Edna St. Vincent Millay poems for Christmas when I was 18 or 19, and asked if I liked her poems. When I said I didn’t know, she said, “You will.” (My aunt is one of those people who always gives the perfect gift).
Assault
I had forgotten how the [...]
Confessions of a sloth
Posted in Motherhood, school on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read something interesting recently about how parenthood doesn’t automatically make us better people. (somewhere over here, don’t remember exactly where…) If we are selfish, lazy slugs before having a child, we are not automatically transformed the moment parenthood happens. This is definitely the case with me. I remember during my pregnancy, how I wondered [...]
Just showing up
Posted in budget, school on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. I was hoping that the last few weeks of school (all of which are clinical, no more classroom stuff left to do) would be easy to get through. But I am finding myself getting really antsy, just knowing that all my classmates are pretty much done as of two days from now, and I [...]
Switching blogs
Posted in Writing on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have had this blog for a year or two, but haven’t really used it. I am switching over here from Blogger as of today, though, because I’m a little embarrassed about some things I have posted over there in the past few years, but I can’t quite bring myself to delete the whole thing [...]
Juggling babies
Posted in breastfeeding, school, tagged breastfeeding, school on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I had a lot of thoughts stewing around in my head this morning as I chugged my coffee, and now that I’m all caffeinated, I have received a phone call not to go to the hospital because my preceptor is calling in sick. I may as well get all these thoughts off my mind, [...]
