My week was fantastic! I’m
so glad to be one week closer to my goal; making it to this summer alive!
Everyday I tell myself 6 times (Ms. Webb says your brain will start believing
it after 6 times lol) “I am getting better at this everyday! I am getting
better at understanding the questions, I am getting faster at reading all my
chapter, and it’s going to be OK!” I also am so grateful for the Sabbath and
that I do not have to think about school at all! I was talking with Amy and
Becky, who are both in my nursing class, and they were saying how they were
going to the library after sacrament meeting because they have so much reading
to do. I was so proud of myself for working so hard yesterday to get everything
on my list of “things to do” DONE!
In lab we’ve been doing what
sometimes seems to be pretty silly stuff, but it’s all necessary! Even looking
up each other’s noses and making sure you can gag; which by the way, I don’t
have a gag reflux! Amy stuck that tongue depressor in the back of my throat and
I didn’t gag… we called Ms. Webb over and she said to touch my uvula and I
still didn’t gag. Weird! We all did an ophthalmoscopic examination on each
other. We looked at our optic discs and the red reflex from your retina. It was
really cool to look through the ophthalmoscope. We found something else
peculiar about me. My left eye (my bad eye) reflects a dark orange color not
red. What does that mean?!?! Ms. Webb wasn’t sure but she’d never seen that
before. We also used an otoscope to look in each other’s ears! This was my
favorite part. You can actually see the eardrum or tympanic membrane and it was
very cool. Some people had a ton of earwax or cerumen but my ears were very
clean! I can now officially thank Scott for all the wet-willies he used to give
me. We got to check each other’s
vision by performing the Snellen visual acuity test. That’s the one where you
stand back 20 feet and have to read the letters. I didn’t do very well with
that. I’m blinder than I think… I
also know a lot of techniques about using my penlight and what to check with
it. It was all very fun! I think without lab, we would all die from the other
stuff. This week, TOMORROW, we have to learn how to assets the heart and lungs,
which means we all have to change into hospital gowns so we can appropriately
hear or auscultate each other. It’s going to be great!
My other classes are going
great! I passed our fist big test in basic nursing and I passed another
pathophysiology test and my pharmacology test. Makes me think if it doesn’t get
any harder than this, and I don’t get lazy, I can do it!
The bad part of this week
was that all three tests were on the same day. Thursday! Oh what a sweet and
sour day it was! It’s normally a long day because the classes are all
back-to-back, but with tests in all three of them, it made it a lot worse. I
couldn’t just relax and be happy to be done. I had to sneak out my notes for
the next class and study. It was crazy! I was talking to Lindy and she says
“sounds like finals week”.. Which makes me think what will finals week be
like??!! I’ll die!! Ha ha, or be totally used to it by then! I know that’s
going to happen a few more times this semester with tests in all 3 classes.
I did so well this week and
I know it’s because Jeremy gave me a blessing! I was panicking before he gave
me one and I am so thankful to have priesthood holders that are worthy to bless
me to get through all this stuff. I am so thankful for him and his willingness.
I taught FHE for the first
time this Monday. It went well and I was so thankful to my Mom for helping me
think of Get-To-Know you games! I-sit and the bean game were so fun! Everyone
enjoyed themselves I think and if they didn’t at least they had a lot of ice
cream sandwiches for refreshments!
All I can say that was
negative about this week was that I was almost was late to class Wednesday.
Stinkin’ military time! 1300 is 1:00pm! Ms. Webb was so serious the first day.
If you are late and have not called me, you are dropped! No questions, nothing.
That morning I was feeling prompted to stop reading my textbook and check again
that I had the right time, for my 2nd time, and that’s when I
realized I needed to be there in 2 min. I panicked BIG time. I was throwing
books around and stuffing stuff in my bad and giving Jeremy my phone to look up
Ms. Webb’s phone number. Anyway, I ran out to the car and some how dropped my
wallet, but Jeremy came running after me with it and my phone. I ended up
making it just one or two minutes late, but she gave me a look I never want to
see again, and told me to leave earlier! I am so glad I live so close to school
or I would be home by now! Lol. I sat down with wet hair (I had taken a shower
just a little bit before), with no paper, and with no pen or pencil. I had
stuffed my purse, that was practically empty, in my backpack, which was
practically empty and ran. Oh what a day. I thought for sure my planner said
1500 when I looked the first two times which I thought meant I could study till
2:30 and then leave for class at 3pm. Oh how wrong I was. Another negative
thing is my tailbone is sooooo starting to hurt from sitting so much. Class all
day is okay, but I sit in my bed and read and read. Those are the two and only
bad things of the week and the three tests on Thursday, but still. What a lucky girl I am!
Oh! One more thing I was so
excited about! I found a really nice dirt trail to run on. I’ve been going for
runs whenever I can squeeze one in because I sit so much and because I feel so
much better after I get the endorphins flowing. I was fine running on the
sidewalks around the house, but I live in Flagstaff. I’m on the mountain! So on
Friday when I had a little more time I kept on going a little further than
normal and found a dead end and a trial sign. I ran a little more and turned
around and realized I was really in the woods now. I pulled out my phone and
called Erin and told her where I had gone and how long until she should expect
me to be back and then kept on running. I Loved it! It’s so beautiful and so
refreshing.
