capstone... checking out...

Capstone today: hard of hearing lady with heart failure...she keeps asking me if I would like to share her medicines. Wellllllll, I would...but I'm at work.
WHAT HONEY????!!!! I can't hear you.
perfect.
Lady #2
Everything failure...
but really sweet. so I'll keep her
Lady#3
The ultimate Boulderite...
she is allergic to EVERYTHING!!!!!
Sulfites, preservatives, latex, tape, coatings on meds, meat

OH MY GOD...
I walk in and tell her I am a student and she just about flipped her wig.
I then proceded to tell her I needed to collect from blood :)
She announced to me: "I will give you ONE chance and if you don't do it right...YOU are DONE"
holy cow lady, that is no way to talk to a student.
So I got all my stuff together ...jammed that butterfly into her vein and got the blood.
"hhhmmpf"
she said...
and my day is only half over.

LONGEST DAY EVER...

I picked up the second half of a shift doing surgery med.assistant stuff today which at the time sounded fabulous. Now it has turned into the longest day ever. I got here at 7 am and it is now 218pm and I still have 4 hours. I switch to the other job at 3pm. grrrrrrrrrr

It makes me tired...
plus I always get stressed when I ahev to do blood draws and haven't practiced in a few months. I'll try to stay calm. and for some damn reason I always have a fight with the scale down there...and then on top of that the blood pressure cuffs never work so I have to do it manually...which is fine, but it takes too much time when the patient is used to it being done digitally.

hmmm'
I'm ready for today to be over. I'm gonna buy new running shoes, I've printed off a half-marathon running schedule for getting ready to run one....and my weekend will begin...if it stops raining that is.

write ya later
m

Thanks for the encouragement

You know...
I just really needed that little bit of encouragement yesterday.
I got a call from within the hospital that they needed a MA float/perdiem to fill in.
I said, "I'll take it" It's not nursing but its patient contact and will let me use some of my skills.
I marched my little butt down to the lab, asked for a bunch of butterfly needles and tubes to practice drawing blood and crossed my fingers.
**Carlos did ask who or what was I going to practice on...I said ARMS, what the hell do you think...I'll find some somewhere... (he was nice enough to tell me to come back if there were no arms willing....there are always people in the lab willing to lend in arm...it's to make up for all the bad sticks they had to do in school.)

When I got home I got on the horn and called the ever willing Synda to get her skinny, non veined arms to my house so that I could practice. (Thank God for her) She is never excited about it, I'm pretty sure she hates needles, but she still sits there and lets me do it. I got it the first time and she only said the tourniquet hurts, and that the poke hurt like a poke...but nothing major. One tube of blood and a bit of relief I think I'm ok.
I need a few more arms to practice on...but this is a start.

It's Friday and after I work a bit maybe I can come up with something real to post. It's been a few dry months.

xoxox
write ya later