Sometimes hilarious things happen to me or I get to be lucky enough to be involved in hilarious things happen. So on a lighter note from my last post and the most recent experience that I have had during my clinical rounds at Timp Hospital is I was working in the ER and there happened to be a mentally handicapped girl about age 25 (not the funny part Who do you think I am some sick freakazoid?) but she came in with a pretty bad Urinary Tract Infection and the sad thing about it was that she couldn't explain her sensation so this infection actually spread through her whole body :-( . Anyways so in order to specifically treat certain and extreme UTIs you have to do something called a straight catheter and collect some urine and test it for certain bacteria so you can then find a specific antibiotic and knock out the little bacteria suckers. I don't know what it is with me and this procedure on women but somehow I always get really uncomfortable and nervous and just a little grossed out. So we were about to do this special and very invasive and embarrassing procedure I hear a knock on the door and incomes one of her family-friend meanwhile while she is basically is spread eagle on the hospital bed she yells out with like every fiber of her being "Sherri!!?! WELCOME! I was SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!" While she is basically spread eagle and sick as a dog on the hospital bed and SHE was worried about SHERRI! Hahaa! After some test results the doctor said that we needed to put in an IV so we go in to get the IV in her and she FREAKED OUT she folded her arms in half and she was SO STRONG there was like no way that I was going to be able to have her straighten her arm by myself so I could get this IV in her arm. Anyways I finally got one in which I was really proud of because she flinched right when I was going in and I had to correct. ANYWAYS she kept asking me in the most sincere genuine voice "Lacee... am I going to die?!" and I had to keep ensuring her that "JANE DOE you are NOT going to die I promise I will not let you die when I am taking care of you!" She was the cutest funniest thing ever. She kept telling me how she refused to say the world "hail" in the Pleasant Grove High School fight song and how it was super duper bad. After I got the IV in I go in the check on her and I could tell that she was super upset and So I asked her what was wrong and why she was upset and she goes " I just can't explain it ever since you put this IV in me I have just been super upset and I feel like I am going to die!" So I explained to her that the IV was actually a really good thing and that it was helping her body be hydrated and that she was getting all of her medications super faster then swallowing a pill. Then she was fine for the rest of the time. Oh and another thing that made me laugh really hard is that she was so proud that she donates BLOOD PRESSURE on a regular basis. hahaa patients like that just seriously make my life. That night was so much fun. More funny life stories to come.... or at least I think they are funny ;-).
Oh yeah! Finals are over.... I'm lucky I got through this semester alive.... these past 15 weeks have been some of the hardest weeks of my life and not just because of school. School has actually been the least insane of everything! I feel like the expression "when it rains it pours" has happened tothe nth degree. Idk why family and work just seems to go crazy at the most inopportune times but I feel since I did come out of it alive that I can for sure overcome anything that gets in the way. Shout out to my hubby for being so amazing through every struggle I go through and for dealing with this crazy pants. Three semesters down and two to go! 35 weeks until I am NURSE LACE FACE FUNKNASTY T SHWING!
Lessons learned of the week:
H & M is the devil
I'm lucky to be married to such a smarty pants.
Boogee lowers my blood pressure and stress times a zillion
I need to work out....tomorrow hahaaa
I can't tell the difference between the smell of cigarette smoke and skunk smell... both are equally awful.
The missing peace is an excellent book and I'm not even done yet.
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