Updates

so it's been a month...my bad yo. in my defense, i have been THINKING about blogging.

as many of you know, i've been a bit preoccupied lately by one of my patients at the hospital. she's actually no longer my patient since she's now in the ICU but i've become close with the family so i've become somewhat territorial of them. Maggie is still very sick and the family is asking for all your prayers. she's been close to dying more than once now and she still has a very long road ahead of her, not only does she need to recover from this last open heart surgery but she will need a liver transplant in the very near future. so please pray for her and her family.

other than that not to much has been going on, i went to New York a few weekends ago. I went to both visit one of my good friends and also to look into a possible job at the Children's Hospital there in manhattan. it was a great visit with mary and i had so much fun but all my plans for going to the hospital totally fell through. it's still a possibility for the future but for right now i think i want to go into ICU nursing and if i moved to new york i'd have to take a position on a med/surg floor like i'm working on now. not a bad thing but it would throw off my 5 year plan.

oh that's right folks, i have a 5 year plan. 1 year of med/surg nursing, 2 years of ICU nursing, 2 years of OR nursing and then volunteer again. i'm hoping to go back to Ecuador to volunteer but i would go anywhere really. after that we'll see. i was thinking of going back to school for anesthesiology but that will depend on how well i like the OR. actually all i really want to do is work around the world volunteering. i hear the sudan needs nurses...

nothing else new, Kelly, Dan and the boys are coming out on friday, 5 of us in my 1 bedroom apartment... things should be very interesting! i'm actually really excited because i love getting to spend time with them and there are plenty of things to keep us busy outside the house so that we won't be on top of each other all the time. and as an added bonus for us all i finally got my air-conditioning fixed.

the A/C has been broken for close to a month now, basically ever since the weather started getting hot. but i've been out of town on the weekends and working so i really haven't thought about it too much, then the other day it was about 85 out and oh so humid and i decided to go for a run and walking back into my apartment felt a little like walking into my own personal sauna and it was then and there that i called to have them fix the air. i just envisioned hot cranky babies all weekend and it was not a good image. but as things are now a comfortable 78 degrees i don't have anything else to do except possibly clean my bathroom