Friday, October 27, 2006
My First Day!!!
On Wednesday night I could barely fall asleep. I had felt a little nervous about going to the hospital the next day, but really I was just so excited. (kind of a nervous excited! :-) I was going to be job shadowing a nurse in the PACU. (which is people just as they come out of surgery). So, here I am in my scrubs before I went. I got there and found my nurse. If you had of told me two years ago that I would be looking at iv's, catheders, wounds, EKG's, smelling lots of hospitals, helping to check vitals, talking to people about their medical condidionts, looking at blood drain, and looking at a lady who just had a masectomy for breast cancer...I probably would have turned white and passed out on the floor! But nope, I some how have gotten over those fears and hear I am loving it. I loved the nurse I was with so much. She kept telling me how healthy I looked for a person for celiac disease (jill, you can insert your comment here....). I was there for the afternoon. When I walked out I smiled so big and said "I can't believe I just did that!" I couldn't wait to get home and tell mom and my family all about it. I still can't believe it, but I love it so much, it was so fascinating. I got to talk to lots of patients too which was neat. I told an old lady that had a hip replacement that she was going to be a great dancer. My grandma always liked to hear her hair looked nice so I told her. She needed an eye patch and as my nurse lady was putting it on she said to not take her eyebrows off...they were penciled in...haha. Anyways, I really have to go pack my bag for the weekend at the farm in PEI..... Here is a picture of me in my scrubs..notice my name tag....it says my name and school of nursing :-)
Monday, October 23, 2006
My month of October
October is coming to a close. It is hard to believe. It feels like it is just going so so fast. Thankfully I am enjoying what I am doing. So here are some pictures to recap my month, since I have not been extremely faithful to the blog portion of my life, although the digital as made it on many occasions just for the day when I knew I would post them! So here are some pics of Ashley's Birthday, Peter Thamer's new open house, Thanksgiving weekend in Cape Breton, and most recently our half marathon in PEI. This week I am going to be going to go to the hospital for the first time in a post surgery unit. So, I got my first set of scrubs, which are blue! The typical nurse colour. I am sure there will be much to say! I have loved fall. It is starting to get cold. No matter what, I love the changing of seasons because it reminds me that there is always new. The changing of the seasons and what each season brings always reminds me of the seasons in our own lives, and that in the wintery months, God does things so that we can grow, and enjoy, and to have new experiences in Him.
CHelsea, Jo and me
well, I think the last picture of us together was about 4 years ago...so here is the new one!
Thanksgiving weekend!
On Thanksgiving weekend our family went to our cottage in Cape Breton. We have never done this before, but when I was in SOuth Africa mom suggested it. I think it will become a tradition. It was so nice just to be able to sleep, and eat. I went for some good runs, the trees were gorgeous, and I brought the wrong textbook and couldn't study....oops!
Harvest Moon at our Cottage
You can't really tell how full the moon is here, but just think this picture in your head, and magnify it by 100
Ashley and I after the race
Well, we ran the race. Here is an after shot. The one below is before the race. It was kinda cold, but we were very excited....right ash?
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Half MArathon tales
Well there aren't any pics yet, but I promise they will be soon to come. So, I decided to tell some tales of the half marathon today. Since the half marathon's in May I have only been running smaller distances. I registered for the 10km race in Prince Edward Island. However, last week I was running and decided I would switch to the half marathon and I did. I am so happy that I made that decision. I was uncertain about running it since I knew I hadn't really trained, but I showed myself up and ran it today with a 5:54km in a total of 2hours and 3 minutes...this is about the same amount of time I ran the Bluenose in. This was my favourite race ever. It was gorgeous and quaint. The race led us through some of Charlottetown's old historic homes, on the the confederation trails and then back downtown. I enjoyed it for many reasons. First, is Ashley and I ran it together. Having eachother to sing along to songs with and even dance at some points made it very fun. I also just realized again how much I just love running. I was thinking about it as I ran, how enjoyable and easier it is to do things we love. I began to think more about the gift and preciousness of life (which is one thing I learned from those babies in South Africa). Life is so much more enjoyable when we have the freedom to do things we love. Sometimes this takes overcoming fears and doubts, but as I was running my heart became filled with thankfulness and joy that God wants us to love what we do, whether running, nursing, ministry. or whatever it may be! It just encouraged me more not to do things out of duty or obligation, but because I love it. Anyways, it does make me laugh what you can think about while running. At about km 17 I was making up figure skating routines in my head to music from pride and prejudice....very random! So, it was a great run and a beautiful weekend...I guess something solidified to for me, that as long as I love running and am able, I'll keep doing it! OH ya, and Ian HOldway ran a very fast half as well...so make sure you give him a high 5 next time you see him!! Stay tuned for pics of the race as well as more pics from Thanksgiving in Cape Breton at the cottage and from Jen's wedding...they are coming when midterms finish on tuesday!!! see ya later!! Anyone wanna run the Bluenose half in May??????
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