I'm Back!!!!!!!!!

Ok so i'm back, I think ;)

I know I have been gone for several months, but I felt I needed a break and was getting burnt out with this whole having to have a post everyday bull. 

With my job the way it was I just couldn't commit to that. 

So a lot has changed since the last time I blogged. I will gradually go through everything that has changed in the up coming posts. I'm going to attempt to blog at least 3-4 times a week just to keep up with everything. 

I have really missed all my blog friends I have made and I am so happy to be back!

I have definitely been feeling the need to express myself on this here piece of the interwebs.  Life has a way of making you miss the simple things in life and that has been blogging and expressing myself in my own way, in my own words, in my own space. 

Please bear with me as I begin to post again and get back into the groove of blogging life!

I want to say thank you to all of those who are still following this little blog of mine and who have stuck by me in my times of absentie. 

I promise to try to keep up with my commitments and begin to comment again on all my fellow bloggers post that I read!

So hopefully this will signify my journey back into blog world fulltime!

Have a great monday!!

I'm Back

So I know I have been gone for most of the summer, but I am back now! I have been super busy all summer taking care of my little cousins, working, doing school work, and just having fun!

I am going to try my best to be back full time from now on, but it may not happen all the time. I have tried to start back before now, but have been unable to bring myself to put forth the effort this blog requires. But I feel I am back to a place where I can be here more often. We have been dealing with a lot as a family this summer and my mind has been anywhere but set in reality.  I have been escaping into the world of my books and movies. 

Am I the only person who re-reads their favorite books even if they have just read them? 

Anyways, I just wanted everyone to know that I'M BACK!!

Love y'all!!!!

Nursing

Ok so I am super, super excited to be linking up with Renee and Anna for a day of telling all about our nursing stories!

So I am a new nurse working on my own now. I work at an Immediate Care Center and I absolutely love my job and the amazing people I work with! 

Here is a pics for proof!

*Ok so here is a warning, if you get grossed out easily, you may wanna quit reading now!

So I have been working at my job for about 3 months now and I have seen my share of nasty, weird, smelly stuff. But NEVER have I experienced what I did last week! 

A young girl came in acting a little odd, so when I went to triage her she informed me something was "stuck up high in there" I was like what? Dumb blonde moment for me! So she goes all red and says "I think I lost a tampon up there", I was like okay. She of course had brought a friend and they were acting goofy. So I put her in a room and inform the doc and he's like great (insert sarcasm here). So we go in grab some forceps and pull it out. Thankfully it had only been in there for a night, so it wasn't too nasty. So I was like ok got that over with and of course the other nurse working with me was giving me a hard time bout it!

About 4 days later I get another one, except this was a lady about 40ish and it had been in there for a week! I was like man you've got to be kidding me! This was my 2nd one in like a week! My co-worker chooses to inform me that I am now cursed with tampons, bc anytime you have 2 of something it means your cursed! To top it all off I am super, super sick. I am not looking forward to it! (again insert if you get grossed out easily stop reading) So I grabbed masks, a speculum, ky jelly, forceps, and tucks pads galore. The doc is like I don't need a mask it wont be too bad. He told me to get in and get out QUICK. I wear a mask and tell said pt its bc i'm sick to make her feel better. When she undressed you could smell the odor then. My eyes were burning and my nose was running from the smell, it was terrible. Doc gets it out and other stuff comes out with it (insert grossness here). Doc rushes out and I am left to clean up with horrid smell! So I clean up ASAP and get out! She dresses and leaves. Insert we had to open every window, door, and air we could find in the building. I swear we saw smoke coming from under the door it smelled so bad! I had to close off the room, after lysoling and febreezing it down. I had to close off the lab from the smell. The bag I took out of room had to be put in a bio hazard and placed in box outside. We febrezzed the whole office, me and other nurse were hanging out the window trying to get away from the smell! Needless to say I felt much worse after the fiasco and I thought I was sick before! 

So there you have it, my first brush with lost tampons and the nastiness that accompanies it! Ok ladies I wanna know, how in the heck do you lose a tampon in your body, especially if it has a string on it? How do you forget that its in there? Have any of you experienced this first hand or had patients who have done this?

I want to reiterate what Renee put on her blog for new students and new grads!

*Ask questions to whoever will listen and answer appropriately! Its better to ask and make sure your right than to be wrong and endanger a patient

* Love what you do or you will hate every minute of nursing

* Find a place to work that you really enjoy and makes you feel like you are doing something good for someone else!

* Always be willing to help out whenever possible, no matter how small the task

*If you have a bad day remember that tomorrow is a new day and it will always be completely different in the world of sick ppl

*Make friends with your co-workers bc trust me you will be seeing them more than you see your family in most cases

*Make friends in nursing school, bc those will be some of the most important friendships you will have, even after school is over!

I miss my nursing class friends, but I have made 3 amazing friends from it that I talk to daily!

Now that I have written a completely long post, I will say goodbye!

Sickie

So I know i haven't been around since like Tuesday, but its with good reason. I worked two 12 hour shifts on wednesday and thursday, both while very very sick. I had my co-worker give me a shot in the butt on wednesday bc I felt terrible. It helped a little bit and then I came home and went straight to bed. Thursday  was even worse so my doctor called me in some antibiotics and my sweet sweet mommy brought them and some fabulous Chick-Fil-a to me at work. 

I'm pretty sure I scared all my patients into getting through triage quickly and getting out of the office!

I was a hot mess, literally and figuratively!

So this weekend I am laying low, sleeping, reading, and watching movies. 

The only reason I will be getting out of the house this weekend is to go find my sister from another mister her spring sweets swap goodies! I hope kelly likes what I get her! 

I will fill everyone in what I get her and what I get! I am super excited!

Until then, have a great night!

Confessions

Ok so first off I wanna say that I am a little perturbed, I lost a follower today. I mean I know I haven't been blogging like I normally do, but come on really? I mean to just completely dislike me like that is so not cool. 

Anyways, I am going to be really honest with y'all tonight well by the time y'all read this it will be tomorrow. Any who, I am having a really bad day and I am going to let you in on a little secret, its about me. After reading Nicole's post today I feel I need to be transparent with y'all about this crazy life i'm living. I like Nicole have been a good little girl my whole life and I am feeling the effects of it more than ever this week. 

I had dinner with my bestie tonight, she is absolutely one of my best friends and I have known her literally my entire life and well she knows me well. Anyways, we haven't seen each other in forever because she is a school teacher and i'm a nurse and she's married and i'm terminally single. Well we finally made it tonight and I basically bared my soul to her and I haven't done that with anyone in forever! 

I like Nicole have made it a point to make everyone think that I am ok, well newsflash i'm not and I don't know what to do about it. I finally came clean to my bestie and she made me feel about the same really, I felt better for getting it out but I also didn't feel better. She is going through a lot also and neither one of us could fix any of it. Our lives are spiraling out of control and we can't fix it. Mine is terminal singleness and loneliness and her's is boring life and adult worries and a few others. 

I dont really know where i'm going with this post but I just needed to get it out there. I am not always alright and I am the girl who puts on the fake smile and tells everyone that I am ok. Well from now on I am going to work on it. I have run off my friends with this kind of acting and from now on I am going to be honest about how I am doing, but not too honest all the time. 

So I am so sorry about all my ramblings on, but this is my blog so I just had to put it out there how I am feeling and hopefully tomorrow when I go work a 12 hr shift I will feel better about life. Again sorry about the ramblings and if it doesn't make sense which i'm sure ti doesn't

Bad Blogger

Ok so I know I have been a bad blogger lately and I am so sorry! I haven't been linking up with any of you other bloggers like I normally do and I haven't been responding to emails. 


I am so sorry that I have been MIA lately. I started my new job last week and have been completely immersed into it. I am not really sure how blogging fits into all of this. I have been working crazy hours and worked my very first weekend after only working 2 days!! (can you say insane!!!!!) Anyways, I am just not sure how y'all do it everyday? I dunno how to integrate my work life, personal life, and blog life into one? I haven't been reading blogs or commenting on anything in over a week!!!! 


I would love some info on how to do it all from those of y'all out there that do it! Please help so I can continue my blog and not feel so bad about not being here :(


I promise to try to be a better blogger and friend, I will try to start blogging more often!


I truly love and enjoy hearing from each and everyone of you! I miss keeping up with everyone! Please keep reading even if it is sporadic!


So goes the life of a new nurse!

New

Drumroll please...............................................................................

I just got my First NURSING JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am officially a Big Girl & now I gotta go buy me some "big girl panties" 

I am so excited! I have been praying for the right job to come along and today the Lord delivered! Hallelujah!! 

Thats why I haven't been around today, bc I was at an interview! 

So lets Party!!