Valentines Day

Last weekend I was able to come home and enjoy the 3 day weekend with my friends and family :) We celebrated Valentine's Day and my parent's 23rd anniversary with lunch at our house with the kids and grandkids!

My favorite little man cheesing for the camera :)

Tasha and her two boys. Both of them needed some cuddle time with mommy, which calls for a photo but Bryce didn't quite get the memo (he just got up from his nap) and Brock well....when you want him to smile, he definitely can't smile and look at the camera ;)

surgeries

This week I had the chance to observe in the OR and I got to watch the scrub techs set up the room, bring in and position the patient, and bring the patient to the recovery room! It was amazing! I got to see 2 different surgeries and the end of a 3rd one :) The OR nurses were amazing and so helpful! Plus they were all trying to recruite me to think about being an OR nurse which seems pretty interesting :)

It was a long day of standing in a cold OR room but being a few feet away from a spinal and neck surgery was pretty awesome!

thursdays

I think Thursdays are my days to catch up, relax, lounge in my bed and de-stress from the week. Which is exactly what I've been doing so far :) But this week I got a break (which actually was much more needed than I realized) from going to clinicals and had skills lab for 2 days on campus. I learned and got checked off for trach care and suctioning, wound care, chest tubes, and monitoring IV's :) also got the joy of filming my DVD of me inserting a catheter and all the steps that go along with that! but our new skills lab prof is so great! she even made us homemade cookies yesterday!

I'm done with 1 more midterm, had my philosophy one yesterday, which we all agree was "very well written."

But thursdays are house dinner! so tonight I will hopefully get to see all my housemates (some which I literally haven't seen all week) and we get to enjoy homemade pizzas :)

I can't say how thankful I am that I haven't gotten the Strep throat that has been going through our nursing class! Which reminds me that not only was Brock sick this weekend, but Caitlin got sick last night :( So hopefully her's doesn't last very long and she'll be back to her regular self!