Deadbeat dad's

I really don’t talk about my ex because he is a low life asshole. My 2 kids are not my husbands. They are from my first marriage. Now mind you I met him in the army. He thinks he is the shit because he has served his country and has been to Iraq 3 times…now i really appreciate what veterans have done for us but…grrrr
First let me tell you he has never been a father to these kids. Only when it appealed to him. Like when i wanted them on his weekend wouldn’t he pretend that it matter that he saw them. In the last 4 years he has seen them maybe 5 times…and none in almost the last 2 1/2 years. (btw i have a calendar with the dates, just take me to court prick) He never wrote the kids to tell them he was even alive while in Iraq. I know alot of people that never forgot to write their family. He is a truck driver for the army and even got hurt over in Iraq. So yes your a veteran.. But remember you were committed to the mental institute by me cause you tired to kill yourself before you ever were in Iraq so getting committed after is not an excuse not to contact your daughters. Its called a phone…can’t afford it? Its called a letter…if you can get a new tattoo every month u can afford a fucking 44 cent stamp! This is what his mood said on MySpace “ive been away for a while this i know,but i have to heal myself before i can be with those who are my soul,I DO LOVE MY DAUGHTERS” we haven’t received any calls or child support in about 2 yrs. And he loves his daughters? WTF? He swears he is stress from the war and is not safe to be around. But what about before he left for the war? When he saw the kids when it was convenient he would take them to McDonalds. My kids actually hated going there. He actually waited until the day he was leaving for Iraq and spent 30 mins with the kids in my yard. What kind of attention is that? My oldest wants to change her last name to my hubby’s. He is telling people I am the bitch that won’t let him see his kids? Hello i am the one that takes them to see him mom not him? where the hell was he when his oldest had surgery? he wasn’t in Iraq then? ah no! Does he even know what grade they are in? He wasn’t there for their first band concerts…or for their baptism. Or how hard his oldest is struggling in school. He doesn’t take them fishing like my hubby does. Or picks them up from school. He wasn’t there when they were sick or sad. Or when they had nightmares because they thought he died over there or crying because he doesn’t love them. Does he know just how he hurt his kids? No he doesn’t care…he hide behind his I am not safe to be around…i am not safe to be around..i might just wring your neck for all the pain you put MY kids you stupid sperm donor, married 3 times and can’t keep a woman cause you can’t stop screwing up… They have grown up these last 2 1/2 years without him. He can take his love and shove it up his ASS! He isn’t going to fix himself he was screw up a long time ago WAAAAY before the war…so don’t give me that crap! And for the spies that read my blogs and send it to him FUCK YOU!

okay i feel better…

Hanging on by a thread

I have been trying to keep my head above water at school, between trying to juggle work and many other things for school it makes it hard to get good study time.  In nursing you have to have a C in order to pass (75).  I have had to B on my tests and the rest have been C.  Mainly because I really need to increase my study time.  The biggest scare is that I have the worse freaking subject left…immunology and endocrine…ugh  So instead of hunting this year at thanksgiving I will be working on my 3 papers and redoing my stupid care plan.  I didn’t learn how to do the care plan like the 1st year students did.  She was a little more lenient on the LPN students because we all messed up the same parts.  So we get to redo it and turn it in after thanksgiving…I hope to get time to study for this freaking test…I am sssooooooo tired…that I am trying to stay awake in class…and trying not to fall asleep behind the wheel….sheesh…if i graduate…i plan to sleep a month to catch up…

Scared to Death…nursing school

Okay mind you that I love scary movies and not much can scare the crap out of me…except a nursing instructor that has decided to wait till the last min to assign 8 chapters to read by Monday. First off class technically doesn’t start until Monday so why is this idiot assigning crap already? She sent it thru email too! Glad I decided to check it today… I work 12’s this weekend and so far I am only thru 3 chapters…ugh and my brain is already fried and can barely remember what the heck I read. What the H.E.L.L have I gotten myself into? GRRR…anyway that's my RANT for the moment…I must get to bed 4:55am comes around fast…Nite ALL!

Redneck Holiday

Hello all from the the bottom of redneck hill with the holiday madness…

We actually didn’t have any drama because meth ho and her spawn stayed home. Unfortunately someone in the family on my brother-in-laws side had passed away. But we still went on with the festivities…
First my there was ass grabbing…by my man and his sis? Yea i know to much info..i asked if they were from west va and found out that yes their is family from there…hmm that explains alot.
My brother-in-law was out hunting..and my man was the only male in the house…i could see his man hood shriveling…lol Usually they are the ass grabbers acting retarded…i actually have a picture of them pretending to be attacking each other with knifes….so my man stuffed his face and out the door hunting he went. Most of the fun was around my niece who’s catch phrase of the day was “no way” with such attitude!
then my nieces thought i would be great to take white powder sugar from the donuts the 2 yr old was eating and put it under her nose. Next the instructed her to say “i love cocaine” great…that's just what she needs to repeat at preschool…i was a bit comical though…when she was going up to people saying i love cocaine…
Ugh i ate so much that i think I am going to hurl…never go to thanksgiving starving…you eyes will be bigger than ur stomach.
So i have left the feast and headed home…because in this family more than 3 hours (not days) it starts to stink…esp after those deviled eggs
so i am here on the couch in pj…no man and kids quietly playing somewhere…ahhh what a day…i would go to bed now…but i better wait at least an hour for my belly to settle…wish me luck i go out in the crazy blk friday tomorrow for the first time with my sister-in-law..4 am is early…means i will be up by 3.

i hope everyone had a blast on their turkey day!!!

Spread em’

My friend that works as a cashier told me when I see my hubby to asked him not to steal anymore sunglasses again. So of course I had to ask my hubby what sunglasses did you try to steal today…when I got home…he grinned…and proceeded to tell me the story…
My hubby works for Pepsi and he works in a few different grocery stores…he was coming out of a certain big chain store…when he set the alarm off...and since he knew most of the people that work there he decided to be amusing and put his hands on the wall and “spread em” position…yelling at the door greeter…It’s not me…you can check. Mind you this door greeter was probably mortified because she was at least 80yrs old. She states that's umm not my job someone from the back does that... The cashiers at this point were laughing hysterically at my hubby and the customers glaring at the site of my hubby spread out like a criminal on the wall. Someone finally came over and they asked what he had purchased…apparently the sunglasses that he bought where setting off the alarms. The wonderful cashier forgot to deactivate them.

Kaboom!

Okay first some history….my man before having a ready made family use to keep loaded guns around the house because you never know what kind of crazy might break in. Paranoid? No prepared he tells me. He actually had a loaded gun in his recliner. He told me that he was sleeping one time and this bible seller came in the house and he said he scared the crap out of the man because he pulled the gun on him. Course the jack ass shouldn’t have come in the house while he was sleeping. Anyway when me and my girls moved in he had to break the habit of having loaded guns. Because if something happen to my girls I would be force to shoot him…lol
He does pretty good and locks his guns and bullets up now but around hunting season he sometimes forgets and i have to nag him…yes I said nag…because i tell him and it goes in one ear and out the other. Knowing my luck I would be me cleaning and I would end up shooting myself. Course he tells me to leave his crap alone and he would clean it up himself. Yea okay 3 months later maybe. Anyway…a couple days ago he was putting his bullets back up in the lock box and the lock fell off and on to the dresser top…KABOOM!!!
My hubby says all he saw was a flash of light…and oh shit what did i shoot???
Nothing thank GOD…dumbass had bought some high power poppers for forth of July and some fell out of the box and when the lock fell off it hit one of those and scared the shit out of my man. I laughed my arse off at him. Serves him right! I think now he will try a little harder..at least for a little while.

Hanging on by a Thread

I have been trying to keep my head above water at school, between trying to juggle work and many other things for school it makes it hard to get good study time. In nursing you have to have a C in order to pass (75). I have had to B on my tests and the rest have been C. Mainly because I really need to increase my study time. The biggest scare is that I have the worse freaking subject left…immunology and endocrine…ugh So instead of hunting this year at thanksgiving I will be working on my 3 papers and redoing my stupid care plan. I didn’t learn how to do the care plan like the 1st year students did. She was a little more lenient on the LPN students because we all messed up the same parts. So we get to redo it and turn it in after thanksgiving…I hope to get time to study for this freaking test…I am sssooooooo tired…that I am trying to stay awake in class…and trying not to fall asleep behind the wheel….sheesh…if i graduate…i plan to sleep a month to catch up…

Sim Patients

So usually we have Sims lab at Radford university even though we have our own Sims lab. The sad part is that there is not enough faculty to actually run it. But this last Thursday we actually got to use it will our teacher. Now mind you it wasn’t as organized as our main SIMS. But these SIMS were set up to keep failing as we were failing. For Example the first group of 4 went up and had a patient that was in the ER for a knee amputation that was bleeding. So they knew that they had to put pressure on the site. But there was no orders to go by to figuring out the meds or protocol was really hard. They hung Fluids and gave pain meds…but the patient got worse and before you knew it they were doing CPR. It was actually more comical…because they were running around..and it was so chaotic… But they were trying harder and harder and the patient just got worse…I was dreading my turn…well out patient was a surgery patient that came in to the ER unconscious with a crazy wife that we had to try to calm down and get out of the room because she was beating on the patient. Come to find out we had to go back and get info from her to find out that the patient had OD on Lortabs. So we had to give Narcan and fluids…and then the patient of course got to decline on us and we had to use the ambu bag on the patient. The more we did the more thing the patient declined….it was comical..but the reality is it was scary as hell…that at some point…i will be doing this for real!
We got to practice putting in ET tube…which was awesome…

We also convinced the teacher to do the simulation…so we could have a good laugh..forgot she worked in ER on her summer days…crap she did pretty good with 2 other students…even one of the students pretended to be the girlfriend of the gun shot wound patient…now that was comical…she did an awesome crazy person…so that was my fun on Thursday. We also ate out to celebrate the last clinical for the year!!!! whoo hoo!!!

My life in ciaos

Okay dialysis paper and AA are still due,
Get tomorrows notes for muscular system too.
One more dose of Sim’s Lab left to do,
I haven’t even started the questions, boo hoo.
Registration for spring, Graduation form turned in,
More money to come up with, this should be the end.
Make up clinicals for the free clinic coming soon,
Time for 12 hours at work, great a full moon.
12 hours nah, let’s make it 14 hours instead,
No help again, guess i will come home dead.
Get out the poster board, get out the glue,
It’s time to teach brushing teeth to rugrats too.
1st of the month, have i done the bills yet?
Nope its the 5th and I am now far in debt.
Kids to and from church tonight,
Say a pray for mom alright?
School uniform washing for clincals next week,
I forgot my uniform last time, i just started to shriek.
Questions for psych, missed that email,
Hurry up, hurry up, I am going to fail.
Dog jumping on laptop
Feed me Feed me you forgot!
12 year old cooking again, not time to stop,
My Care plan is due, my head is about to pop.
School nurse and OB next on the list,
Oh darn, man’s birthday I just about missed.
Christmas shopping done yet? It’s almost here,
Nope last minute shopping for me I fear.
3am care plan is done,
Printer has died, oh great, what fun.
Why does this thing decided to waits until then?
Jump drive and email to the rescue again.
Woke up at 5 with sick kid number 2
With a nice temperature of 102.2.
Kid 1 calls, my lunch pail is at home!
Sorry mom is in school, can’t answer the phone.
6 months to go, until the big date,
Won’t my life be dull….after I graduate.

Moon Crazies patients

(pic took w/ my camera attached to my dads telescope)
Have you ever experienced Moon Crazies behaviors associated with the Full moon?
I work in a Long Term Care Facility and I HATE full moons because for next few days it seems like all of the patients I care for are louder, more prone to disruptive behavior, more unwilling to cooperate, and would revert to behaviors they usually don’t do like (biting, nudity, screaming fits, destroying property, refusing medication, etc).
I've Bet my readers out there that are in other professions have experience some type of Luna craziness, i.e. (cops, ER workers, EMTs, funeral directors, coroners, mental hospitals workers). Have you noticed?....Are you a believer of this phenomenon? Tell me what do you think? Share stories…or just tell me you think its all in our heads. That we expect the worse so the worse happens?

I know that my pts refused to take their medicine today, were trying to climb out of their beds without assistance, crying more, moaning more, yelling more, and I swear at one point today all my call lights were on down the hallway. Not to mention I must of had to call the doctor at least 4 times today to get some type of new meds…ugh Even fully staffed today and I feel like I ran a marathon today…darn full moon…give it a rest already

This coaster ride of live…i am ready to get off please!

I know that live has its ups and downs…but lately I feel like i am getting a little sick to my stomach and I am ready to get off this ride of life.  Not ended it like in suicide more as in lay on a beach chair on a tropical beach and have some hunky waiter waiting on me hand a and foot.  Between school and my family and I think you might find me in the mental ward or jail..lol

First lets start with the constant bickering. My girls are 15months apart and completely opposites.  My youngest is the girly girl, organized and apparently a grade level below in reading.

My oldest is the tom boy,  who never seems to comb her hair and her room looks like a bomb went off.  If you don’t keep up with her she will wear dirty clothes if left on floor.  She is unfortunately taking more after my ex than i wish.  I just found out she  got a F in math. 

My redneck man, who grew up with a mommy that did everything for him…possible wiped his ass is sloppy, constantly cusses, and had inherited the family pass time of drinking.
Now mind you I am no angel. I can be hard to live with.  I am a perfectionist, organized and can all around be a bitch.  Or at least my man seems to call me that most times.
So my dilemma is do I try to fix the family issues or hope that all can survive for the next 3 months and 5 days left before I graduate and pray no one dies?

My man is no help. He won’t take the kids any where. Not to band or church youth group. He works hard and thinks kids would do better if just left with nature and not culture.  Making him in charge of the kids education is scary and would be better off in my dogs paws.  He has taken over cooking but I think he did that because I have slacked off on it and gone to quick and easy meals.  That’s about all he does.  My youngest helps out the most and will do anything if asked.  But she shouldn’t have to do it all herself.  In fact the man has learned that and will inform me that the house got clean and most of it was done by her.  While he drank his beer and watched. My oldest…uh lets just say its never done right and most times you have to go back and redo it anyway.  She has struggled in school to the point that i had her test to make sure she wasn’t ADD.  Nope she was borderline.  So no help there.  My man is high against any drugs to help her focus.  Oh did i mention she still wets the bed?  she is 12. dr said there is nothing physically but possible age issues.  Meaning she will grow into her bladder.  He told me 2 yrs ago we could put her on meds for it.  Which btw is an antidepressant with suicidal ideation as a risk…so uh no thanks,  So reading most family blogs I see everyone else's kids excelling and skipping grades…what the heck am I doing wrong? we do extra math and reading.  But heck some of that math was 20yrs ago when i did it.  The teachers are a joke.  I mean don’t you think they should have let me know she was slipping in grades instead of waiting till it was on the report card.  This kid had be grounded from everything.  No videos, no TV, no overnights, and this time i am not letting her go to the dance.  I mean this has been going on for the last 2 yrs at least.  She knows she is suppose to show me the low grades so that we can work on them.  But i never seem to see those papers.  Unless i am there in class holding her hand and telling her what to do I am beginning to think we might not make it to high school.  Is anyone else out there having issues?
and as for the man that's another blog

psychotic or demented?

Okay so you get a new pt because the state hospital has declined them…an emergency admission. Yea! Then your told that the pt. like to wander..ok demented…also likes to attack for no reason..never no what might set him off. Great…why is he in a room with a pt that can’t get out of the bed then? Sometimes uses the bathroom and sometimes doesn’t. Won’t always let you assist him to the bathroom and won’t wear depends…great…stays up 3days at a time then crashes for a day. Hey lets put him with other pts who are trying to have a normal life and sleep. Then it starts all over. Well lets just say within 12 hours Haldol was ordered..because he tried to attack a nurse. So does the state still think its dementia and not psychosis? Give me a break…what makes him crazy when he attacks a resident or a nurse? Hello he already attacked the family member and police was called…ding ding ding can we say crazy??? We are not staffed to take care of this high need patient…why the hell did we accept this pt? Just to fill a bed? Thanks admissions…we get the bruises and you get the money.

weird redneck stuff

okay so I have learn that the rednecks here are entertain with simple things, eat strange things and say weird stuff here goes…

1. My husband does not like cake…let me say it again does not like cake but his mom will insist on making cake for his birthday every year that never gets eaten….what does he like?  Icing…as in tube of it and eating it plain… So my daughter bought him that tube above..
2. Leading to my mans next obsession…the color of his poop after eating such an item…or asking others that have eaten blue poop coloring icing…yea just what mejis wants you to ask…is the baby’s poo blue?
3. Following a comment the next day…i tried to take a pic of the poo with the camera..but the lighting was all wrong.. serious?  just the lighting was wrong with that statement? sheesh
4. What did his sister get him for his birthday?  A whole pork loin…hmm meat from your sis…redneck
5. My crazy redneck lab dog…enjoys cleaning my mans toes…only his toes…and i have seen him chewing on his toe nails…can you say ewww gross!!!
6. My man has chewed on a milk bone just to aggravate the dog…mmm minty fresh!
7. Another gift for his birthday…moonshine..yea major redneck border lining into hillbilly
8. My man also has no problem with a birthday cake like this…. yup he watches SpongeBob…blames the kids..yet they are sometimes at school when he is watching
9. my hubby finds it funny to throw farts..ask for a hug and then fart…pull the covers over your head..fart…oh yea what entertainment
10. Also i have learned when he says hey look a raccoon…does not mean its alive…sure Hun lets play identify the dead thing on the side of the road..whoo hee
11. I have learn also that rednecks cannot take pictures…even if they have the same camera as me…people are never centered, and 12 pictures of the same bird is not exciting…unless its rare…but a sparrow or whatever that bird was…not interesting
12. When my man want his brother…he will ask me to message mejis and have her tell him…ugh..its called the telephone..or even sadder walk up there…they live right behind us…
13. Or if his brother is shooting or playing with fireworks…mine has to retaliate with his own gun or fireworks…like he has to one up his brother..is that some type of redneck mating dance…bang i have big balls…i am sexier..come mate with me? good grief…anyway that is my redneck man

weird redneck doings

okay so I have learn that the rednecks here are entertain with simple things, eat strange things and say weird stuff here goes…

1. My husband does not like cake…let me say it again does not like cake but his mom will insist on making cake for his birthday every year that never gets eaten….what does he like? Icing…as in tube of it and eating it plain… So my daughter bought him that tube above..
2. Leading to my mans next obsession…the color of his poop after eating such an item…or asking others that have eaten blue poop coloring icing…yea just what mejis wants you to ask…is the baby’s poo blue?
3. Following a comment the next day…i tried to take a pic of the poo with the camera..but the lighting was all wrong.. serious? just the lighting was wrong with that statement? sheesh
4. What did his sister get him for his birthday? A whole pork loin…hmm meat from your sis…redneck
5. My crazy redneck lab dog…enjoys cleaning my mans toes…only his toes…and i have seen him chewing on his toe nails…can you say ewww gross!!!
6. My man has chewed on a milk bone just to aggravate the dog…mmm minty fresh!
7. Another gift for his birthday…moonshine..yea major redneck border lining into hillbilly
8. My man also has no problem with a birthday cake like this…. yup he watches SpongeBob…blames the kids..yet they are sometimes at school when he is watching
9. my hubby finds it funny to throw farts..ask for a hug and then fart…pull the covers over your head..fart…oh yea what entertainment
10. Also i have learned when he says hey look a raccoon…does not mean its alive…sure Hun lets play identify the dead thing on the side of the road..whoo hee
11. I have learn also that rednecks cannot take pictures…even if they have the same camera as me…people are never centered, and 12 pictures of the same bird is not exciting…unless its rare…but a sparrow or whatever that bird was…not interesting
12. When my man want his brother…he will ask me to message mejis and have her tell him…ugh..its called the telephone..or even sadder walk up there…they live right behind us…
13. Or if his brother is shooting or playing with fireworks…mine has to retaliate with his own gun or fireworks…like he has to one up his brother..is that some type of redneck mating dance…bang i have big balls…i am sexier..come mate with me? good grief…anyway that is my redneck man

Redneck Texting

I will tell you that first I am not a fan of texting.  Never had it and usually block it from my plan so I don’t get charged for stupid texts.  Hey its call the invention of the telephone…you just talk in it.  Okay Okay i know that in some instances texting is quiet and doesn’t disturb others but anyway…I have finally moved up in the world and got a blk berry.  Which just feeds my internet addiction.   I got it because my instructors are constantly emailing and changing their minds when if comes to meetings and deadlines.  Now I get my emails straight to my phone just in case they change their mind at the last min.  Anyway on to the redneck world…my hubby got a new phone when we upgraded and it has a better signal than what we had.  So my hubby, who goes to bed at 830 most nites, was up until 12 midnight playing with his new phone.  Even called me from the bedroom for me to bring him a beer…great now we have room service?The package that I have with my phone gives us free texting.  So for shits and giggles I sent him one while at work on lunch break…only after the second one I get a message that say F Y this shit sucks just call me… (that was the exact message) well at least it was spelled right my brother in law has issues with spelling.  I know the king of taking pictures of every Efin  nature thing in the world and send it to me via texts pics….yea!  Yup its a flower…and another flower..lol  But the most amusement he has right now is calling with in the house to ask whatcha doing?  Like he doesn’t call me enough already throughout the day. Sheesh. But to top it all off was when he ask me to ask my sisterinlaw to ask her man to send him that picture of the cougar dragging off some deer.  Why can’t they talk to each other?  Why are we the go to person?  Have they forgot how to use the phone? Pfft!

fake seizure

 

I would like to share this video that I found…which can kinda tell you what I have to deal with some days.

So a few days ago I get an EMS call over the radio saying that this patient has had 10 seizures on route to the ER.  So this patient is coming to my room that I am assigned to.  It had been a long time since I had to deal with a seizure.  My coworker are laughing about it and me new to the scene have no idea why.  I look up and there is this woman lying on the stretcher with her arms flapping and legs kicking.  First I was like wow…then when I really got into the room I was like what kinda of fit is this?  Then it stopped.  She didn’t talk for awhile.  Then started acting like nothing was wrong.  I asked all the questions and got her list of meds.  When I was done I went to the nurses station.  They said first time you’ve seen her?  I replied yes.  What the heck kind of fits are those?  I know that's not a seizure.  They said they are pseudo seizures. (fake for the non medical people).  She’s a regular the proceed to tell me.  Well then I hear a bunch of ruckus and notice my adult patient having a “seizure which looked more like this…  minus the crying…the doctor had entered the room.  He was wise to this act and instructed the woman to stop.  That he knew she was not indeed having a seizure.  She just intensified it some more.  So we came in to help.  Was instructed to get some ammonia sticks.  Which is use to help regain consciousness of a patient that has passed out.  Let’s just say if your faking it’s like sticking your nose right over a bottle of cleaning ammonia and taking a big o’le whiff.  She stopped her “seizure”  so she could roll away from the awful smell.  Forgetting she was suppose to be kicking…and she had just one hand going now.  He instructed that she stop or he would have to use the ammonia again to help calm her down since now she was shoving the doctor away and banging her arms on the side rails.  He stated that he didn’t want her to harm herself but she kept pretending to be having seizures.  After the 2nd dose of ammonia she stopped.  What makes people want to do this?  Mental issues?  Attention?  Drugs?  Found out drugs…she was telling the doctor she needed Dilaudid for her headache that the seizures caused….can I get some for the head ache she caused us?  GRR
PS:  I also was informed she isn’t the only regular that does this.  In fact the patient will state in her history part that she has pseudo seizures….dear lord help me

Mental hospital

Okay so we did our orientation at the mental hospital. It was a bit boring…HIPPA this HIPPA that…I found out that I will be doing my clinicals in September. I will either been in one of the Wards or I will get to be in one of the group therapy sessions. Worst would be going to court and having to listen and find out if they can go home or not. Not real interesting to me. I would rather be on the ward. Some would rather do the court. Why? Because they don’t like being in the mental hospital. They don’t like the locked in feeling. Give me a break. Or one…(giggling) actually back up against the wall every time a patient walked by…hmm do they think they will never encounter a mental patient? First of all if your in ER you are really going to see the crazies. I work long term and we get alot of the psychotic patients that don’t get committed. So believe me they are everywhere. We actually have on patient that when I give her meds you actually leave the pills on the bedside table (don’t worry i watch from the door frame) because she will just look at you and you have that feeling like she would grab anything sharp just to stab you with it. Or how about the patient when she over hears you laughing she thinks your plotting something against her and she goes ape crazy. So yes its in most lines of nursing. Time to get over your fears…cause hell aren’t we all just a bit insane?

when things go wrong

okay so being a nurse your going to encounter days when things go wrong. Like for instance an admission that alot of medications were missed. Aggravated because it was because someone didn’t complete it correctly. Some nurses jump the gun and start placing the blame. Just fix it. I would still report it. Why? Maybe the nurse was short handed or maybe the orders were a mess. Believe me i have seen some orders from other hospitals that it make me want to scream what the hell? I almost wished for a standardized form so that it would make it easier. You know here is the list of discharge meds, activity, DNR status, diet etc etc. Instead we have to rewrite it if they don’t come from one of our hospitals. And like I said before trying to find all the information can lead to meds being missed. Being shorthanded doesn’t help. If your trying to be the telephone operator,CNA,med nurse, skilled nurse, mother, teacher, and many other jobs rolled into one. Mistakes can happen. In the state of Il they are prosecuting nurses that make med errors. Do you know how easy it is to mess up? I know one day i was passing out meds and was interrupted at least 10 times. That is no exaggeration…between family members asking questions, answering the phone, helping CNA, getting call lights, or many other distractions. You can find yourself thinking where was I now? All it takes is to think I was on this patient..when you weren’t.

But the sad part is most times things go wrong because its just a lazy nurse that didn’t want to do her job. Which in itself is another rant all together. GRRRRR!

Plastic patients

So on Monday my teacher sent our Simulation via email. So at 9am I found out I had 2 simulation patients. One that was in labor and one that was postpartum. Considering I hadn’t had OB since..oooooh…3yrs ago. I had to cram. But we didn’t do to bad. And the instructor knew how much time we had to study up on it and how long it had been. It was amazing just how realistic the SIM’s patients are. You can actually check the cervix on it. I didn’t do that great with checking. But since I have never done it before…i was okay with it. This wasn’t a grade. Its use to teach you. The instructors are great. They don’t make you feel like an idiot. They actually teach you. I thought the plastic pt. was 5cm dilated only…that was the baby’s head..not the cervix…hehe o-well. Oh yes our patient was a drug seeker to top it off and that she drank and used drugs the entire pregnancy…glad it was fake…though i know there are patients like that. I did an INT on the Sims and did just fine. YEA for me The next patient I had to take lead nurse. That sucked…i kept stumbling over my words and my dag gone patient. Wouldn’t let me to my assessment. She kept detouring to more patient teaching subjects. I am use to patients that pretty much when I say hey I am going to assess you then we will go over any questions that you have..they listen. So I missed something important on my assessment because of it. Another learning lesson. The other student with us did a med error…and a couple of us couldn’t help but laugh at some of the things the dummy (SIMS) would say or come up with…I think some of it was a little of the wall. Which really reminds me of Grey’s Anatomy…SIM Man episode…hehe check it out...click here

2 year of nursing

So this is 2nd year of nursing. With only 2 semesters left until graduation. I spent today in orientation wondering how the hell any normal person gets thru this. Finding out that I have Class Monday afternoons followed by 2 hour of being at the hospital (6 to 8pm) to get assignments and going thru the patient’s chart. Then put together a worksheet about them and turn it in the am. Yea a whole lot of time there. I didn’t need sleep. Then clinicals on Tuesday at the hospital. (630-330pm) We are in charge of one patient, which we do everything for, meds, bed baths, bed changes, vital signs. I have pages and pages of crap that has to be done for clinicals. Like every cotton pickin medication the patient is on. Which is usually around 16. So i have to make a drug card for each, what it is, side effects, dosage and many other facts. I have to fill out a paper on each and that’s not including the many hours of homework from my actual classes.Wednesday class again. Found out that most Thursday's will consist of make up clinicals for the LPN’s or other clincals for the fall class. Which each have worksheets that have to be completed and turned in. I have 2 care plans this semester. And if any of you were following me before you know that the one I had over the summer…i invested 33 hours into it. So my books are about 30lbs all together…yes i weighed them, being tugged 14 directions, the teachers are constantly changing clinical dates, not to mention not telling us half the crap we need till the last minute, I am schooling it 4 days a week, working 2 days a week and somewhere in there i have 2 kids and a bigger kid (hubby), a household to run…so do I have enough to keep me busy? What do you think

Mental hospital: nursing school

Okay so we did our orientation at the mental hospital. It was a bit boring…HIPPA this HIPPA that…I found out that I will be doing my clinicals in September. I will either been in one of the Wards or I will get to be in one of the group therapy sessions. Worst would be going to court and having to listen and find out if they can go home or not. Not real interesting to me. I would rather be on the ward. Some would rather do the court. Why? Because they don’t like being in the mental hospital. They don’t like the locked in feeling. Give me a break. Or one…(giggling) actually back up against the wall every time a patient walked by…hmm do they think they will never encounter a mental patient? First of all if your in ER you are really going to see the crazies. I work long term and we get alot of the psychotic patients that don’t get committed. So believe me they are everywhere. We actually have on patient that when I give her meds you actually leave the pills on the bedside table (don’t worry i watch from the door frame) because she will just look at you and you have that feeling like she would grab anything sharp just to stab you with it. Or how about the patient when she over hears you laughing she thinks your plotting something against her and she goes ape crazy. So yes its in most lines of nursing. Time to get over your fears…cause hell aren’t we all just a bit insane?

Conversations: What dat?

So I walked down to my mother in laws to pick up a “mess of corn” (not my wording) anyway the clan of redneck children were there munching on frozen ice pops. Problem was no one got one for my niece. Who was politely longing at everyone's icey. So I got one out for her from the freezer. I tried to let her choose… what i got was a parrot…do you want Blue? bue or do you want red…red and we have yellow…ewwo and she sticks her 2 yr old fingers out…so i said blue it is…excited we went outside…where as to avoid dripping on mammy’s carpet. I figured by the time we were done she would be blue. I preceded to show her how to eat the popsicle which she would lick and it would fall back down in the plastic sheath. Finally she gave up trying to understand how to push it up and turned it up and drank the juice out. The tried to pull out the pop but it must have been really cold. Because she dropped it. And of course…phobe got it. No bebe…I told her it was dirty. Because she was going to reach down and grab it from the grouchy dog….hmmm lets keep the fingers kid. Phobe must have gotten brain freeze from trying to eat it. And step back from it. Beebee eattttt…and she pointed at it…LOL Now she was commanding the little grouchy blk dog. Who was looking at her like who is this little shit and who is she to tell me what to do!
The gang of kids left to bike ride and we made ourselves comfortable on the 2 seater swing. I was watching my little blk dog as we were swing. who dat? phoebe…i said coco no phoebe. Then she started her roll call as her mother calls it. where papaw…i don’t know…home she said. No we are at papaw. were coco? at Trish's i said. what dat? pointing at Dr. pepper…drrpep she said. what dat?…and while we swung she continued to absorb all the answers that i was giving her to her numerous amount of questioning of what dat? All I needed was a giant light and I would feel like I was being grilled. Then she jumped down and commanded becca come on…and we went toward the house. She threw away her trash!!! She definitely doesn’t get that from my brother in laws side of the family…lol then she commanded becca come on…bebe come on…we were on our way back outside. Course It was time to leave…sad part is I think that was the longest conversation that I have had today…Sad isn’t it?

It’s official

Okay so i have officially passed my LPN to RN transition class. Which means that I am officially a 2nd year RN nursing student. Yea! So I thought I was going to have the next 2 weeks to enjoy while my kids and in-laws leave for the beach. Imagine it no one on this redneck hill. Peace and quiet…nope I have to make up 45 hours of clinical time since the stupid nursing board said that we don’t have enough hours. So of course the crazy advisor is throwing things at us that we can do to make it up. So I have to go to the mental hospital on the 18th and OB Sims lab on the 11th. Trying to do 16 hours at the free clinic. So cram cram cram before the fall classes. I wish i was rich and could stay home instead of work. lol We were also informed that we have to be flexible. Which means I have a feeling that our clinicals are going to be throw at us at the last moment. Meaning my boss isn’t going to be thrilled. I wished they would have everything down on paper. My work makes the schedule out 2 months in advance. So trying to get off cause of conflicts is hard. I am spending today to myself…well except for the stupid hour and 5 mins I had to spend at one of those annual update meeting for work…whoo hee. Got a free towel. wow…So that is what is up with me.

Jealous patients

Learning how to deal with a difficult family member for the first time by my instructor was quite entertaining.

I had this male pt in his early 20's with cellulitus of the leg.

Problem was his girlfriend

She would stand in the way of me trying to assess my pt or give me dirty looks...and i need to assess his leg plum up to his crotch...because that is how far up the swelling was...i was so nervous that i couldn't finish my assessment.

My instructor asked me if i completed my assessment and i had to say no...i explained the situation...that i felt to nervous with his girlfriend hanging over my shoulder making sure i didn't molest her man...so my instructor said come with me...and we stormed in together...and she took the curtain and swung it quickly in front of the girlfriends face before she could even have time to jump up close to the bed..."we'll be done shortly" was all my instructor said...they she pointed have at it...i finished my assessment trying not to snicker behind the curtain.

Free clinic

Okay so I am finding myself way behind and trying to catch up on blogs. So you may have to look back on a few. Anyway my first clinical was to the free clinic. These are my make up hours. So I got to take vital signs and weights. I also got to ask what their chief complaint was. Nothing I hadn’t done before. In fact I kinda of felt sorry for the LPN that worked there. She was the only one. I don’t think that I would like a job like that. She really loses her nursing skills. She does get to do EKG’s and breathing Tx’s but that's about it. The doctor was nice and did take us in with the patients that would let us in. She let us look into ears and see and infected ear. She also did alot of things that most nurses or students would think is unprofessional. She included her experiences and religion into alot of her talks. She had suffered from depression and uses her experience to get her patients to open up. Which surprisingly worked. She was able to convince them to start on depression/anxiety meds. I know that some of them are depressed but I am one of those nurses that doesn’t believe that every patient needs to be on medication. I am not knocking depression. That’s not it. I just think that some stress molds us into the people we are today. It makes us stronger and able to handle situations when they get out of control. There are some that a chemical imbalance makes it impossible to handle daily living. Then those need the meds. But don’t try digging for issues just to prescribe them 4 different drugs…here is one for sleep, one for depression, one for anxiety and and extra just in case? good grief…how about counseling? Plus I wasn’t impressed with her shoving God this and that. I love GOD and want people to love him. But there is a time and place for that. Shoving it at people that you don’t know their beliefs is a problem just waiting to happen. I do love the fact that she sits down and takes the time to talk to the patients. She doesn’t cram in appointments just to get more money. She listens to them and tries to encourage conversation. She doesn’t just assume and she actually reviews the chart before she goes in. She even asks hey how’s your arm or leg whatever they were there the last time. My doctor makes me feel like I am in a rush and never gives me time to ask questions…So that was my first clinical and I go back 2 more times next week. Then that part is done. I also go to the mental hospital next week.

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Free Clinic

Okay so I am finding myself way behind and trying to catch up on blogs. So you may have to look back on a few. Anyway my first clinical was to the free clinic. These are my make up hours. So I got to take vital signs and weights. I also got to ask what their chief complaint was. Nothing I hadn’t done before. In fact I kinda of felt sorry for the LPN that worked there. She was the only one. I don’t think that I would like a job like that. She really loses her nursing skills. She does get to do EKG’s and breathing Tx’s but that's about it. The doctor was nice and did take us in with the patients that would let us in. She let us look into ears and see and infected ear. She also did alot of things that most nurses or students would think is unprofessional. She included her experiences and religion into alot of her talks. She had suffered from depression and uses her experience to get her patients to open up. Which surprisingly worked. She was able to convince them to start on depression/anxiety meds. I know that some of them are depressed but I am one of those nurses that doesn’t believe that every patient needs to be on medication. I am not knocking depression. That’s not it. I just think that some stress molds us into the people we are today. It makes us stronger and able to handle situations when they get out of control. There are some that a chemical imbalance makes it impossible to handle daily living. Then those need the meds. But don’t try digging for issues just to prescribe them 4 different drugs…here is one for sleep, one for depression, one for anxiety and and extra just in case? good grief…how about counseling? Plus I wasn’t impressed with her shoving God this and that. I love GOD and want people to love him. But there is a time and place for that. Shoving it at people that you don’t know their beliefs is a problem just waiting to happen. I do love the fact that she sits down and takes the time to talk to the patients. She doesn’t cram in appointments just to get more money. She listens to them and tries to encourage conversation. She doesn’t just assume and she actually reviews the chart before she goes in. She even asks hey how’s your arm or leg whatever they were there the last time. My doctor makes me feel like I am in a rush and never gives me time to ask questions…So that was my first clinical and I go back 2 more times next week. Then that part is done. I also go to the mental hospital next week.

As the redneck world turns: Square Pants?

Okay have your all see that annoying Burger King commercial? The one with Sir mix alots… music except instead of big butts its square butts?

sponge bob?
Well my Redneck hubby took a box of Whitman's chocolate and put it down his pants and call the kids in the room while he did the square butts dance…i wish i had my camcorder or camera…some days he is such a hoot

Cutting the child in half

King Solomon once was in a predicament of having to cut a child in half because two woman were arguing over a child. What do you do when the parents that were never married fight over one? Who should get the child? Why is it the woman should get the child when I have seen just as many men raising kids? We have a black president now…so things are changing…so why can’t guys get full custody just as easy as woman? Just because she went thru labor that makes it her right?
Being on the other fence of this makes it difficult to support that fathers should have that equal right. My kids don’t see their sperm donor cause he is a low life. Its not that I don’t let him. Because no matter how much i loathe him I would never stand between him and his kids. Why would I want my kids growing up and realizing that I kept them from him. Because usually kids become the wiser and realize the one bad mouthing the parent and not letting them see them was being selfish. Which means they might have the kid for the first 18yrs but after than they may not want anything to do with the mom that shut the dad out.
So what do you tell the dad that wants custody? I don’t think he wants to take away her custody. Just switch week to week or just be allowed to see his kid without all the childish games. The biggest thing is he is tired of this bitch, because she has him jumping through all these hoops. He can’t date anyone or she won’t let him see his child. He isn’t allowed to have his kid over night because he might not hear her cry? Give me a brake. I like to choke the crap out of her.
I don’t understand. He works, doesn’t drink or smoke and wants to be in his kids life. He is a good dad and has never been arrested or in trouble. I think she just enjoys making his life miserable….when it was her that didn’t take the birth control pill in order to try to trap him. So apparently she wanted him in her life…grrr
The sad part is she is in her 20’s and still living with mommy? He at least has his own place…grr
So I am open to all advice..besides beating the crap out of her myself.

Cause I know I would go to jail…and I didn’t go thru all this hell of nursing school to blow it on one stupid little girl

Sims?

Think I am going to talk about that highly addicting game? NOPE

Sorry to disappoint. Tomorrow at the ass crack of dawn I get to travel about 2-3 hours to Radford U and get trained on the Sims patients. What is that? Well if your a fan if Grey’s Anatomy you have already seen something like it. Its a mannequin that looks real, talks and has medical symptoms and issues. In fact you pretty much treat it like a real patient. It can even die on you and you have to perform CPR on it. Fun right? My luck I will be doing CPR tomorrow…lol I guess it can tell me it has chest pain and I have to demonstrate what actions, questions and assessment techniques to use. It sounds interesting…but it still gives me butterflies in my stomach. I hope I remember what the hell I am suppose to do. I know the knowledge is in my head somewhere. So I have to be there at 830am which means I have to be up at the crack of dawn. After 3 hours there I have to go back to college and take my test. Fun fun. This ones is on med administration (not to worried) Legal issues ( not too worried) Ethics, (not too worried) and last Nutrition (extremely worried) I mean hey while she was teaching it I was eating chocolate cookies and Mickey D tea …healthy? So not really sure if I will do well in that department. So I better get back to studying…nite

Narcotic use and diversion

okay i had to do a discussion paper for class on a nursing legal issue. This blog is for my nursey buddies that are already nurses or those that are just starting. I don’t think enough people are informed on this so here goes…my paper

Narcotic use and diversion in nursing is growing and is becoming even harder to identify. More training for nurses is needed to teach the signs and symptoms of nursing diversions. Drug abuse is the number on reason named by state boards of nursing for discipline action against nurses. Not only is this abuse but it’s also neglect on the patients behalf. Some nurses pretend to give the drug to a patient, preferably one that cannot speak for themselves, and take the drug themselves. I had wished that my facility had been more proactive on teaching us the warning signs of diversion and also the signs of nursing drug abuse, even if they are hard to spot. Stricter rules and regulations on accessing medications should be enforced. Unfortunately most places like long term care facilities do not have the newer equipment to avoid easy access. Being at one of those facilities I learned that my med cart was easily accessed and that was a hard lesson to learn. 32 Lortab were missing at the end of my shift. It was my cart and I was supposed to be the only one that had accessed it. The culprit was caught but only after drug testing, having my rites read to me by the police and 3 weeks of investigation, crying, sleepless nights and a full investigation from the nursing board. A fellow nurse while talking to me had stolen the narcotics from the backside of my cart, which opened from both sides. I never even knew she had had gotten them. I had to Protest against the old med carts and requested that they be replaced with better locking and one sided accessible carts, which we now have today. Reading other articles has helped me identify some of the diversion signs: Volunteering to administer medications for others, noticing that patients are not receiving relief from administered narcotics, frequent reports of waste, re-taped packets. Not to mention the physical signs: agitation, sedation, hand tremors and headaches. This nurse may offer to work overtime, but takes many breaks, tardiness, or many miss days of work. Most nurses are users not sellers and will use at work. They may inject the drug and administer the rest so that the patient shows some relief to keep down suspicion. The nurses need to be educated about narcotics use and diversion in order to report to the manager with their concerns. If they lack the education they may be helping the abusing nurse and are unaware. Narcotics need to be monitor and discrepancies should be reported. Don’t assume that the liquid narcotic is just off it could be diversion. This is your license on the line are you going to protect it?

Riddle me this

Okay so my first day of clinical went well. The hard part was trying to figure out how to do this care plan. Now don’t get me wrong I have done care plans for work, but this is no ordinary care plan. Its for the riddler or Nazi care plan lady.

Why do I address her as the riddler now? Cause she never answers your questions. I know this thing is going to be time consuming but if I don’t know how to do it how can one finish it? So when I ask specific questions you would think that I would get a direct answer but instead I get some sort of a riddle and I am suppose to try to figure out what the hell that means? Just tell me damn it! Grr… So all 8 of us in class are trying to meddle thru this. I am hoping to find someone that has had this class to direct me in the right direction. Its not like I am wanting the answers or a short cut just tell me how to do this so I can get it done.

Death

Being a nurse you are a custom to death. Especially when you work long term care where most of your pts have come here to die. What makes it hard as a nurse is when you work home health care and have one pt. that your work is centered around. Especially when they are a kid. Taking care of a pt since they were a baby and having them die at the age of 15 makes it feel like you have lost your own child. Even though your not suppose to cross that line of nurse/pt relationship. But spending 40-50hrs a week for 15 yrs makes it hard not to think of them as family. Your suppose to move on to the next case and act like they were never part of your life. How does one do that? Should you go to the families house? Or is that past the nursing relationship? These are the question a relative of mine is facing. How do I help her put the pieces back together?

Jump for Joy

Okay I have to toot my own horn…I freakin passed the Head to Toe exam. Yippee! I felt like a little kid at Christmas…I wanted to shout it at the top of my lungs and I couldn’t wait to tell someone…so I called just about everyone…lol Seriously thought about calling everyone on my cell phone…but I don’t think pizza hut or Wal-Mart would really care…I was really shocked we passed cause we even got the dag gone teacher that was failing everyone. I was so happy to hear I passed. I couldn’t believe the people that I heard say that they barely studied…are they on crack? We studied are butt off and it was rough…sheesh
Now all I have left is to pass the exam with at least at 70 and I will have completed this dag gone class. I am not wanting a 70 I just wanted to know what leeway I have. Anyway on with Rn transition class…I think my teacher is the Nursing Care Plan Nazi...I can’t believe what I have to turn in to her after our first clinical. I am not even sure I know what the hell I am doing. My lab partner kept looking at me…what the hell look..lol Even the teacher said you all have that deer in the headlight look. No shit lady…we have no idea what we are doing. I mean I have done care planning before but this is crazy. So as soon as I am done studying for my exam I have to get my butt in gear and get this care plan a going…Just have to make it till Aug5…come on summer I am ready for you to end!

RN School crazies

Okay so school has been crazy and it got crazier today…first lets just say I got to be the Model pt. (not a good thing) I got to be in my sports bra and stretchy shorts in front of 15 of my classmates while my instructor showed them how to do a full head to toe assessment. That sucked! It took an hour a freakin hour. Just what I wanted was my flab out for the world to see and my neon white legs. Anyway I started my day at 830 and then ate a quick packed lunch, cause the next class was too soon to leave campus. I did the next class from 1 till 515pm. The teacher seems really nice. The part that gets on my freakin nerves is this LPN that just rubs me the wrong way. You know the type…has a family member with the affliction or knows someone that has it. Always asking dumb questions or stories to tell that are not related to the subject at hand. Well guess what not only is she in my health assessment class she is in my bridge class. She drives me so crazy that I am seriously thinking about switching classes. Well we were all crammed into this conference room for today only. It was hot and stuffy so the teacher turn on the Ac. Problem was that stupid LPN would get up and turn it back up because she was cold. Thing is the rest of us were hot and using our papers as fans. Finally one of the other students got up and turned it back down…not even 10 mins later she turned it back up…I looked at my lab partner and said if she touches that damn thing one more time I am going to break her fingers!

Course that made her giggle and the teacher glared at us like we were misbehaving. Anyway by that time it was almost the end of class and everyone was glaring at that LPN. Dagger glaring from 8 of us must have finally turn on the light bulb in this retards head cause she got up and turned it back down. Freaking buttass!

Redneck Lobster

 
Okay so Mejis man had this great idea lets cook some crawdads (crayfish) to eat.  Well my man was missing so I went to look for him and Mejis man and my man were at the family pond.  My brother in law proceeds to bug me to here eat ones of these…and he points to this pot on the camp stove of 6 crawdads. Ah no thanks…first if you knew how he cooked…no one would want to eat anything.  Course most things are over cooked…but there was no way I was eating anything that was possibly still raw.  I told him he was free to eat all he wanted. That I  really didn’t feel like being sick tomorrow.  So he proceeds to dissect one of these critters and sucking this white meat out of its claws…Hey Bro come eat some of this.  So now my man and him…followed by brother in law boy and my oldest are eating parts of this creature from the back creek.  EWW is all I can say…ahh come on its just like Lobster…and i bite my tongue…cause I want to say to my brother in law when have you ever had the money for that or class…and then Mejis comes down and we chit chat about our redneck men when out of the sky falls a head of a crawdad…her man smiling it wasn’t me it was the boy…so in about 5 min he has crawdad carcasses shoved in places I don’t even want to think of…poor things…anyhow that’s my redneck moment brought to you by BEER.

Redneck Man

 

Yes ladies and germs its that time again. Time to look inside my life of my afro-engineering hubby. My man can come up with some of the most interesting things…i.e. see pic of tomato plant bucket holder on my photoblog. He made a water slide out of a roll of black plastic…baby soap provided by me…since he thought i would be safe for little girls to use regular soap. lol Anyway his new project was the girls campout on the front porch. Why don’t they just sleep in a tent? Well first of all that would be too easy. Second he thinks the bears might eat them..lol I seriously doubt that they would…might upset the bears stomach…lol Anyhoo…I just had to take some pics of this interesting contraption now covering my front porch…thank God I am surrounded by other rednecks who probably won’t even look twice…here goes

this is from the entrance…they were still setting up the sleeping bags at this point

now you can’t see them

from inside their redneck tent…lol

Failed Drug Test

Ha Ha nothing like a title like that to get everyone jumping to this page…thought it was a joke did you? Nope I failed my drug test for nursing. Wanna know why? Well if you read my blog 3 hours and 3 shots to the ass later you would be able to deduct my dilemma. One of the shots was Valium and I tested positive for temazepam, which flags me… great. I explain nicely to the Dr. drug detector what had happen and he states that well diazepam doesn’t break down into that. So he continues to ask…Did you take someone else's medication. I politely thru my teeth state no sir I am a nurse and know better than that. Your not suppose to take anyone else's Rx meds especially narcotics. Its against the law. He continues to argue that I must have taken some one’s Restoril. Hey jackass before you go accusing people you might want to check your drug book. They are in the same drug family dill hole. So what did I get to do today…get my family Dr to send this arse my copy of my ER records…not to mention I had a few drug sites on hand just in case he wanted to continue to argue with me. GRRRR Some Dr’s seem to amaze me…how the hell did they get thru med school…but then again someone had to be in the bottom of there class right?

Germaphobe or Gross?

So here I sit in Outpatient waiting to pee in a cup for this lovely drug test for school. I have an appt. however they must have forgotten cause its 20 mins passed time and I have drank enough to pee in 3 cups. Lovely right? So while I sit there with my legs cross hoping pee doesn’t spew from my eye balls…I sit there watching the people around me. There is this little girl, turns 2 on the 4th I think I heard the parent say. She is sucking away on this dum dum lollipop. First thought going thru my mind is I hope I don’t have to do the heimlich maneuver on this kid cause the suckers are known to come off the stick. That is still not the worse of it. She drop it in the floor of the hospital. And the mother picks it up takes out a tissue and wipes it off and the child plops it back into her mouth. First off ewww. Now maybe at my own house the 5 second rule would apply. But in a hospital where people are sick, crap in the floor, vomit…ugh. Yes I know that they clean the floor with powerful products. But not every moment of the day after countless dirty shoes have walked over their clean floor. Would u let your kid lick the lollypop?

double gloved

I have a sick sense of humor…but it was kinda funny can’t help but share it.  Had a doctor as me if the patient had yet been checked for a impaction yet.  Me and my preceptor said no but we can if you need us to.  Nah I can do it but you guys can assist me.  Went in the doctor starts tell the patient what he is going to do.  We put on our gloves and he is pulling on a second set of gloves.  “ I always double glove…cause its bad enough when the toilet paper tears…and this isn’t even my poop." So he proceeds to stick his finger where the sun don’t shine.  When he removes his finger she farts a big wet fart and poop goes flying everywhere…and the doctor jumps back nearly tripping over the bed table to get out of the way…poop all over the bed and rail…just missing the White coated doctor…apparently…double gloved doesn’t necessarily mean your safe…the dr chuckles…”hmm i don’t believe she is impacted”…
Maybe a rain coat, goggles and double glove…hehe

Don’t not give OJ to your nursing books

I need a desk no if and or butts. Why you ask? Because I have the most accident prone child. If she can get hurt she does and if she can get it dirty she will. Last semester she spilled pop on my A & P Lab manual. That was sitting on the counter. This semester she decorated my Med Surge book with OJ. Thank God it missed my Health Assessment homework. Let’s not even include her own stuff or anyone else's that she has spilled liquids on.
So I have come to realize that the kitchen table isn’t the best place to try to do homework. The only problem is no money and living in a small home makes it hard to fix this issue. My current desk is a computer desk armoire. I don’t use the computer, cause it’s ancient and have upgraded to a laptop. So I gave it to the kids for their room…with the computer out I realize you cannot turn it into a functional writing desk. GRR… So now what? I search for a cheap desk that is small. It took me about a week to finally find something that wasn’t 800 dollars or the size of my kitchen table.
Assembly…this is where as the redneck turns starts…
I love my hubby and he is great at rigging things together and actually making it work. The problem is he never follows the direction on assembly of things. He wants to figure it out. Well the last time we put something together we had to take it all apart and turn it the correct direction…which made the project longer..lol
So his bright idea was to use extra glue to make it stronger. It took pleading to convince him not to due to previous issues. Thank God he listen. It took the entire family to put this little desk together. And yes at least once we had to flip something back around. So thank you for using NO GLUE…so an hour or so later here it is…Crammed into the kitchen next to the table. Its a tight fit but maybe it will be safe from the Super Spiller.

that's my computer cord going across…i type on the couch…

Pretty close don’t you think? Oh well

Stripped Lobster

Why you don’t let your 10 yr old apply sunscreen to your back. Mommy I didn’t want to get the straps on your dress dirty with sunscreen. Okay…not thinking…so I have 2inch strips of Bright red sunburn on either side of where my straps were. Thanks..lol Ouch ouch ouch!

Almost Caught the house on Fire

Okay so like I was saying in the previous blog the power was out yesterday. Well everyone but me went to bed. I was trying to stay up long enough for the power to come back on so I could set alarms and turn off all the lights. I was seriously thinking about going to bed…and figured that crap the lights will probably wake me up or not and run the electric bill sky high. Finally some time after 10pm…the lights kick on. Yup every light was on. I started back at the kids rooms and bathroom and flicked lights off and blew out candles. I then went out the front door for a min or so and looked at the moon came back in and the house was full of smoke…hmm to much to be the blown out candle crap there is a candle that caught something on fire so I am looking in the living room for a turn over candle…Only to find in the kitchen when the man took the food off the stove to the grill…he assumed I turned off the stove and i assumed he did. Apparently one of the kids assumed that too because there was a potholder on top of the stove in flames!!! So running to the stove i grab the only part not on fire and threw it in the sink and douse it with water trying to put it out. There was pretty much nothing left of the gloved pot holder. Had I gone to bed or stayed outside much longer the paneling would have caught fire and that would have been all she wrote. Grief…and none of the 3 fire alarms went off. And nobody even woke up. So guess what new fire alarms all around!

I just don’t see why it didn’t work…lol…okay I couldn’t help myself!
This better?

By Candle Light

Okay so yesterday we had a major short storm that decided to knock out the power in the middle of me making dinner and trying to do my homework. I called AEP and found out that it would be 10 pm before the lights would be back on. Great! So instead of cooking on the stove my man took over and cooked out on the grill, while I tried to do my homework via candle light. I felt like I was in the 1900’s. Sad part was without all the electric interruptions…phone…tv…computer…i actually got done and started on the next chapter…wow…hope next week its off a day so I can study for a test..lol