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Saturday, 21 May 2011

I never get on here anymore.

I am getting married and go on a fabulous honeymoon in less than 6 months!

I get to come home from this African deployment in about 4 months!

I go to Uganda in 2 months!

I will jump out of helos with SEALs in just a few weeks!

I get promoted in less than one week!

And, in less than an hour, I will be asleep in my bed!

Life is good, lemme tell ya.

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Been awhile...

I don't really write on this much anymore. I actually have moved on to another blog. But its mostly private...not much to see for people are not my friends on there.

I'M GETTING MARRIED!!! We have tentatively set the date for 10-15-11, so we have about a year and half to plan. People keep asking me why we are having a longer engagement.

1) I am saving up leave time so that when its time for the wedding, I can request about 20 days off for hang out/honeymoon time.

2) We are both saving our money like crazy so the wedding will be super nice and the honeymoon even nicer.

3) If I were to get married this October, I would be way stressed. People forget that I have to plan this wedding from 700 miles away (I am definitely having it in Nashville, since I am a Nashvillian to the core).

4) After October, the holidays are around the corner, and this year, I want to actually be home for them. Which means actually having some leave time left over. Not to mention the holidays are crazy anyways, and I want to not be stressed about this wedding and then go straight into stressing about the holidays. And my brother's baby will be born in December, so yeah...lots of family stuff going on.

That's it. I don't really know it I'll post much here anymore...we'll see.

Wednesday, 03 February 2010

Soo

In five years, my pay will have increased by about $25,000, assuming I did the math right.

I mean, dang.

Friday, 13 November 2009

As a citizen of the US,

I am offended that our president decided to allow terrorists to stroll into NYC and face a civilian trial. Way to go, Obama. WTF.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Docs.

Doctors are great, I think we can all agree. They put in some stinking ridiculous long hours, work hard, and usually really do care about their patients. I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with some really great doctors.

But. Some are a little too proud of the fact that they are what they are. Not saying they can't be proud. Shoot, I would be. But some on. Let's not forget that you are human (gasp!!) and are not always correct. You are also not too good to help your nurses.

My patient today was morbidly obese. My preceptor and I were attempting to turn her so we could put a clean sheet under her. The woman weighs almost 400 pounds. So we were not succeeding. So, right as I was talking about how I was going to go grab some help, this resident walks in. Young guy, strapping and tall. He hears me say I was going to go get help and says "Ya'll seem to be having some trouble". I said that yeah, we needed a lot of help to move this woman. I grabbed some other people and we went back in and proceeded to move the patient, while the resident just stood there and watched. Yeah. Then, after we moved her and were sweating and breathing hard, we go out to do some charting, and there sits two more doctors, an intern and a resident, at our desk. We asked if they were busy, and they said no, they were just discussing something. So my nurse proceeded to ask them to move out of our place so we could get our work done. You'd have thought I had just smacked someone's grandmother from the look I got from these two. Holy crap.

Cockiness doesn't even begin to describe it. Its not my job to cater to some punk doctor. Its my job to take care of the people who need it. Clearly they aren't teaching that in med school these days. Respect your nurses. They can and will save your ass someday.