Pumpkins, Ghosts and Goblins

Well we finally got the house decorated for halloween, and I must say it looks pretty good. My parents fixed it up yesterday, and we carved our pumpkins today. I did mine with a palm tree and flamnigo to celebrate our going on the cruise in February. My mom made a bat and my dad made a frently toothy-smiled pumpkin man to greet the trick-or-treaters. I don't know if I'll get to give out treats this year because I have to research for clinical on Tuesday. I'll probably pop down from time to time to see the kids in their costumes though.

Mardi Gras!

So David and I decided to go to the halloween party dressed up for Mardi Gras. Actually if you want to be specific, I decided we were going and David agreed after seeing the mask and planning the clothes. I think it's going to work out well. On other news my cousin Heather got her drivers licence yesterday...yey Heather! Now don't smash the car! And I found out I'm in Debbie Brennick's group for my next clinical rotation on 4C of the regional. I'm excited for this because I like that floor and I haven't had Debbie for clinical since The Cove. I guess that's it for now. My mom decided to light the wood stove tonight so the oil heat is going to turn off and my room will be like an ice box. I'd better go downstairs soon to get warm!

Finished Obs.

Well I worked my last clinical shift in maternity on Tuesday. Cyndee said I did a really good job blah blah blah. I really enjoyed it. Monday is my first research for med-surg and I must say I'm really looking forward to it. My client this week had stuff wrong with her that wasn't just having a baby and I enjoyed that. Learning about it and everything. It was great. I was sent some of the pictures from the IWK telethon so I'll post them up now. The first one is Hector and I, then it's Judy showing us the proper way to put a bandaid on a bear, and the last one is Duncan, Hector and Judy. And someone I don't know. A funny story, all the kids kept asking for ballons so we gave them away. At the end there were none left and the lady came looking for them! I let Judy handel that one.

Dots?

Yup. It seems no matter what I always go back to this background...just like I always go back to my aqua theme on the computer.

With Halloween coming up I need to start thinking about costumes. David wants to go with Cowpokes which is workable, but I have to get out there and actually get the costume SOON. We're going to this thing in Sydney River that supports the paramedics...my friend Jeannie from school...her husband is a paramedic so we're all going from school. Should be a good time anyway, and an excuse to get dressed up for this wonderful occasion. As you can see from the picture, I was ... nurse...last year. My aunt made that costume and I bought these ridiculous shoes that were white but had a heel. I'm not really sure how I managed to get around on them though. I also swore I'd burn every picture I had in this outfit, but this one here turned out pretty good so I kept it. Seems really strange that a year has gone by already since that time.

In other news the animals went to the vet yesterday. Susie came home with ointment and pills for her eyes. Lily came home with the same instructions for her foot. Alex came home with a booster. Not too bad anyway. I have to take Louie on Tuesday. Fun times!

Bubbles?

I tend to get very stressed about the bubbles in my syringe when I'm giving an injection. It's not AS bad as if there are bubbles in the IV (for obvious reasons) but I still tend to lose my head over it. Luckily I'm quite good at getting them out of the Syringe...but there are still some fun things that happen "behind the scenes" when preparing a needle. They can be a little bit comical after the fact, but not so much when you're in a drug room drawing up medication with an instructor breathing down your neck.

My favorite story will always be of my very first IM injection which was a combination of Gravol and Demerol. Fine and dandy. I could handle filling out the narcotic sheet by now, as well as drawing up the medication...or so I thought. Gravol and Demerol are compatible medications, which means they can be mixed together in the syringe and given as one needle. What they don't tend to tell you is that when you're drawing up the second med, you have to get it right on with no bubbles because you can't prime or flick bubbles out...it'll mess up the amount of meds in the needle. Soooo I had to draw the gravol very slowly so as not to get any bubbles and whatnot. And I had to do this with both Willena, Judy, and another student IN THE ROOM. Yikes. Then of course I got there and all I had to put on my hands were large gloves, so I went and got some mediums but I felt bad for making the lady wait.

So when I went to do this IM the first thing I did was to go for a search for medium gloves. All was going well until I realized I didn't have enough in the syringe to do my measurement (I needed a ml.) so I had to stick the darned thing back in the vile. Argh. And Cyndee was all "I won't watch" which was cute but I actually don't mind them watching and said as much. Anyway we got in there and the girl couldn't lay down so I had to do it while she was sitting, and let me tell you it's some hard to landmark when someone is sitting instead of standing. I wanted to make sure I got a good spot. Cyndee was like "well you can use vastis lateralis if you want" but I don't like that spot so I used the one I had. It went well in the end.

Now I just have to get over the bubbles in the IV phobia

Hockey's Back

No More Browser Blues + Thanksgiving + Clinical

Hurrah! My blog is finally letting me post pictures again! Yesterday we had the MacKillops over for thanksgiving turkey...here's my dad cutting the turkey while we're waiting for them to come over. My mom made Yams, which I never had before but got really excited when I found out she was making them because they spell "thanksgiving" in all the books. Turns out they're sweet potatoes with brown sugar/water/butter in them. YUMMY! Here's my mom making the yams...checking to see if they're done.


After supper my uncle Ron decided he needed to sleep it off in front of the TV and my mom and aunt Sharon went blog looking on the computer while we all sipped our coffee.







Susie and Lily decided they needed special thanksgiving neckers for the occation as well. There's susie modeling with Heather on the sofa, and lily outside with her necker on to greet the visiters. When dinner was over I had to go upstairs and continue the homework I had been working on all weekend: my major careplan that was due today. I finally got it finished at 9:00 last night and passed it in today. I had a pretty busy weekend either working at seaview or working on that project so I'm going to have a nap after I end this and then get up to study for my Obs. test next week. I am also finished on the Obs. floor because next week I go to the mother/baby clinic where I will help do assessments on babies who went home and are coming back for check ups. Today I gave my second ever IM to an adult...benadryl. It was just as scary as the first, but just as easy to do as well. When I was done, as we were walking back to the med room Cyndee looked at me and said "Nice Needle" I was very impressed with that. I also got to do the discharge on a client. I had a really good time at Obs. After next week I start Med-Surg.

More Lazy Boobs 

Pictures Of The Boat

So there's the pictures of the Carnival Trimph. My computer still won't let me post pictures directly from the blog site, and I've given up. Last night I couldn't even get the darn thing to open at all so this is a bit of an improvement anyway. I'm really looking forward to getting on that boat in February.

Anyway for some other news, my week this week is going to be insane, as is my weekend coming up. I have to finish my major assignment, do the preconference for monday and try to finish psych. And look up stuff for med-surg and start studying in there somewhere too. YIKES! I'm not sure where the time went. I've already been in school for a month.

Front Of Boat 

Back Of Boat 

Picture Posting, Essay Writing Blues

My computer still won’t let me post pictures on my blog. It’s really starting to get on my nerves now, so much that I check it everyday to see if it will work, and when it doesn’t I growl at it. Not good at all. I wish this would just let me post pictures.
Anyway I went to clinical yesterday, my first seven to three since school started which I liked because I got out at a decent time and could do other stuff too. I’m doing my major assignment this week.  Besides that, I’m trying to finish a psych assignment early, we have to start meeting for our group project and I have a preconference project for Monday. Yikes.  Heather and I are going to try and get in to see the boat today, but I’ll have to post the pictures from downstairs again because it still isn’t working up here. What a week.

Still Not Working.

So I ran a virus scan and it came up that I had a trojan, but it got rid of it. However Blogger still won't let me post pictures. I can use the old thing...hello...to do it but not from here. ANNOYING. David says it's spyware perhaps and something about disabling blah blah blah that I didn't quite understand :S. Oh it doesn't sound too bad when spelled out. Anyway I'm going to try that. I'll keep you all posted on my progress. Meanwhile there's a picture of alex and louie outside enjoying the fall.

Fall Pic... 

Run Pictures

So my computer still won't let me upload pictures so I had to email them to myself and then do it from my dad's computer. Mine is being a royal pain. Here we all are getting ready for the run...From me there's Erica crouched down, Anne Frances, Isabelle and Jeannie. Over to the right we have the girls showing everyone how to warm up for the race.






Here I am with susie when we first arrived for the race. I have to add here that her shirt was a huge success...And that she did a really good job walking today although a couple of times she had to be carried...she has very little legs afterall and it was a five K run. This picture to the right gives you an idea of just how many people showed up for the run today...This was on Esplenade just in front of Smooth Hermans. This was about one fourth of the crowd...the runners already finished by this point and there were a lot of people still behind us too. Anyway that's it for now. I'm going to have to attempt to find out why my computer won't let me open the attach pictures part of my blogger. I might go to the FAQ section or something. Maybe I have a virus. The fun continues...

Harry Potter Stuff

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Wand	Pine, 10", Unicorn Hair
Best Course	Transfiguration
Worst Course	Spell Theory
Pet	Angora cat
Patronus	Anteater
Quidditch Job	Chaser
Wizard Candy	Bertie Botts every Flavour Beans (Mmm! Toenail!)
Profession After School	Cursebreaker
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Run For The Cure

I'm having trouble getting pictures uploaded on my blog. On my computer the window won't load at all, and on the laptop it'll load but it won't let me upload the picture. I'll have to go down to my dad's computer and upload them later. Anyway we had a really good time at the run. There were a LOT of people there...I don't think I ever saw such a turn out for an event in Cape Breton before. Makes you really see how many people cancer has touched on this island. Susie had a good time, but she's really tired right now. Anyway I'll post the rest of the pictures after supper from my dad's computer.