Here Goes Week 3

It seems I have dropped the ball on updating this here blog.  Last week was a bit overwhelming!  Lots of papers to write, lots to read and panic setting in about my lab final took over.  Let's play a little catch up.

 Let's see, last Thursday we had the day off from lecture, but a long 4 hour lab.  I didn't have to be at school until 2pm, but I left home early to get to campus to have some study time and open lab practice.  I figured, later in the day, traffic will be nonexistent...WRONG!  I was stuck in gridlocked traffic for a solid 45 minutes.  A normal morning commute to school is about 40 minutes with rush hour traffic.  This was an hour and 20 minute drive!!  To make my whining that much more complete; it was also 90+ degrees, high humidity and I have no air conditioning in The Beast (my Escort) so needless to say, I was cooking!  Pretty sure my left arm got it's first little sunburn of the year.  Awesome.  And yet my complaining continues...(back to my stifling car) I was sitting up to keep my back off my seat to try and keep from getting completely soaked in sweat (I know, I'm disgusting).  That plan failed miserably.  I was frazzled when I finally got to campus, no time to study, just enough time to turn in my essay, see how sweaty I really was, and run to lab.  (My whining goes on) The agenda in lab on Thursday was our midterm.  We had to perform vital signs on our lab partner.  After the midterm we were going to perform breast and abdomen assessments on each other.  OF COURSE the day my lab partner (well I actually have 2 lab partners thanks to uneven numbers) had to be all up close and personal, I am a hot, disgusting, sweaty mess!!  Everything worked out just fine, I passed my midterm and got through the assessments.  I am pretty convinced I may have to spend the money to get my ac fixed in my car.  Poor Erin is probably so sick of my complaining...sorry babes!

Friday, we had our lecture midterm.  It was open book and open note.  It went well.  I was nervous and anxious, but made through.  We had lecture until about 2pm on Friday.  My brain was just about fried.  I stayed after class to get my essay back (with a "Good Job!" written across the top!)  I also wanted to bring a concern I had to my teacher's attention.  My group of three, in lab, is the only group of three.  One student never showed up to the program so our cohort has an odd number, which means there will always be a lab group of three instead of the usual pairs.  I am concerned that we won't have enough time to each work on our head to toe assessment of our  "patient" in lab.  My teacher acknowledged my concern and gave me some tips on how to maximize our time in lab.  Her advice sounds reasonable.  it gave me piece of mind, at least for the time being.  I thanked her for the advice, and was out of there!  Hello weekend!!  Erin and I had dinner with our best buds at a delicious Indian restaurant Friday evening.  Great food, great company, and some wine was a perfect way to end a very stressful week.

The rest of the weekend was relaxing and productive.  I ordered my super cool and super attractive (riiight) nursing shoes.  White leather Danskos.  They will be ready in about a week!  Erin and I also went out to dinner, just the two of us Saturday night.  It was nice to have some time with my girl to catch up without distractions.  All in all it was a great weekend; I didn't get as much work done and I had wanted to, but my brain got a good rest and I am feeling ready to take on another week...I hope!

Bring on week 3!!