Fright in the Night

It's Monday night.  You've been studying most of the day...or pretending to study at least.  You're sitting around with your sister full of energy. What do you decide to do? Decorate windows with sweet window crayons? If you're us you do! One of our friends Javier has been playing a game called Fruit Ninjas on his iphone and it's super addicting. Whit and I drove over to his apartment and decorated his windows with pictures of fruit and stuff like that.  It kinda looked like a 3rd grader had written everything but we did it backwards so he could read it from the inside.  We're pretty clever. So we get done and start to leave, and then remember that he told us he doesn't lock his window.

Our kindergarten drawings!!

"Javier, the real fruit ninjas are coming!" (We know we're dorks. :) )

 We slowly open the window because his roommate and his friend are in the living room and I lift up the blinds as Whit climbs in.  I then climb in and we hide in the closet waiting for him to get back.  We text him and he shows up like 5 minutes later.  We hear him start talking to his roommates in the living room, so we text him again and tell him that we left something outside his window.  He then walks into his room and says "Awww, how sweet!" about our window decorations.  He leans in to look at what we've said, and through a crack in the closet doors I reach out and grab his leg.

The funniest video. It's dark, sorry, he closed the closet door, but it's still hilarious. 

 It was the funniest thing ever. He always scares his roommates so he kinda had it coming. Whit and I are pretty freaking hilarious. :)

Lots to catch up on!

A lot has been happening recently, and I've been super lazy about writing it down.

First off, LINDSEA AND TRAVIS GOT MARRIED! It was tons of fun having family all here and seeing Linds and Travis. She was gorgeous! Janae did amazing on her hair and makeup, and was nice enough to do all of our (my mom, Whit and I) hair and makeup.  It's always more fun having someone else do it, especially when they are super talented. THANK YOU JANAE!!!

I started another semester of school, and have been incredibly lucky with my clinicals.  We are at a specialty hospital about 10 minutes from my apartment, so no more waking up at 4 to drive to Salt Lake!! Yay! I still wake up at 5, but it's a huge improvement. Last semester we were in a long term care facility that wasn't the nicest, but this semester it's more fast paced and higher needs patients. I am learning a ton. 

On my first clinical day I got to assist with dressing the wound of a patient who had had necrotizing fasciitis on her leg, which is a flesh eating bacteria.  It's disgusting, or I would have put a picture from the internet on, but if you have a strong stomach look it up. It was seriously one of the craziest things I've ever seen.  I could see her muscle and tendons and part of the bone.  I could see the muscle twitching.  I am seriously in awe of the human body. I've studied on cadavers but seeing alive tissue like that was incredible. The infected skin had all been removed but they didn't have a skin graft on it. They were putting a wound vac on it, which is a type of dressing to increase the blood flow to the area, and I got to help.  WAY better than last semester where I just passed out medication!

On my second clinical day I was sitting at the nurse's station with the unit coordinator and watching the heart monitor screens.  She was showing me the oxygen levels and the different heart rhythms for different patients, when one was all over the place.  He was in a room where there was a video camera because he was high observation, and we could see the nurse and CNA in the room with him.  They were putting him on his side to clean him up, when all of a sudden the code blue alarm went off.  The unit coordinator I was with went on the intercom and announced it, and EVERYONE ran to the room.  It was insane, but everyone was so calm.  The doctor was calling out orders and the respiratory therapist intubated him.  The nurse and CNA were alternating doing chest compressions and after about ten minutes his heart rate came back up.  I have never seen anything like it.  It's amazing how fast a heart can stop, but it's crazy what medicine and the people who know what they are doing can do.

In other areas of my life, I have the sweetest dad.  Every year on Valentine's Day as long as I can remember my dad has gotten me something.  One year it was a parakeet, and this year it was flowers.  I love looking at the roses on the counter and knowing my dad thought about me. He's the best!

I am on a dodgeball team with 5 other girls and we are pretty awesome.  We were ranked third and just started tournament.  We won our first game tonight! YAY! We also play on Wednesday nights with a friend from the ward.  It's been really fun, especially since the guys have learned it's okay to hit us.  Before I could stand in the middle and nothing would even come close to me. It's way better now though.

Something exciting happened today!!! I got a job!!! (If my references clear- but I already got an ID badge with my picture on it..haha) I will be doing home health visits for a staffing company, so I can pick my own hours and I get paid pretty well.  It'll be good experience too.  I've been trying to get into the hospital here but they want CNA's with more experience, so this will help with that too.  I'm excited to be working again!

That's pretty much my life. :) VEGAS FOR THE WEEKEND!

My little sister is growing up!

Whitni is one of my best friends.  I love having sisters that are amazing.  It's her birthday! She's not a teenager anymore! It's crazy how fast time has gone. I'm lucky to be living with her and getting to hang out with her everyday! Love you Whit!

Rock's Week

Dea and Aaron let Rock come over for the week and so we've been hanging out. Last night it started "nowing" (Rock's word for snowing) and so we got dressed up and played in the snow.

 Rock said the snowflakes tasted like candy, and stayed out for a while. He loved making snow angels and we went sledding this morning.

 

Last night we also made a Rice Krispies house and Rock got to decorate it, showing off his design talents. 

Last Clinical of the Semester!

I'm officially done with clinicals for the semester! I switched with another student because she had military stuff on Saturday so I had to do it. I hate Saturday clinicals! I only had to do a half shift so I was done at noon which was great, and then came home and hung out for a little bit and drove to Salt Lake again with Nick and Whit for the BYU game against Hawaii.  Nick and I got up early on Monday and got us free tickets which ended up being second row right behind the basket. SWEET! So we had KC, TJ, and Uncle Larry sit with us and after we went out to dinner. Oh! Whit and I started planning for Lindsea's bachelorette party, and it's going to be GREAT. My ideas are genius. :) Almost a fifth of the way done with nursing school! YAY!

I found this online, and it is SO true.

Paint Party!

A while ago we got invited to a paint party on Facebook that sounded like fun, so we bought tickets and decided to go. Soo glad we did! It was last Friday, and we got some friends and got decked out in white and black and went to an abandoned hangar at the Provo Airport. 

 They had squirt guns filled with neon paint and sponges soaked with paint.  There were black lights and loud music, and we got to go crazy throwing paint everywhere. SO FUN!

 After we went to Denney's and had some late night food, went home and crashed for 3 hours and woke up to get mom.

We got to go dress shopping (she found stuff and we didn't) and watch the BYU football game at grandma and grandpa's and eat homemade chicken noodle soup that grandma made.  Then mom, Whit and I played Settlers of Catan. Sunday we went to Nate and TJ's homecoming, and got to hang out with family.  It was a great weekend! (Thanks Uncle Rob, Whit, and Stacey for the pictures!) :)

Past few weeks

I started clinicals September 24, but we really hadn't learned a ton of stuff in lab to be able to do at the facility.  It was mostly just following the nurse around watching her pass meds. Pretty boring and it was from 630 to 630 after about 3 hours of sleep.  My sleep habits suck. But then we drove home and since it was my birthday we went to roller skate! ha It was with a bunch of junior high kids, but I absolutely loved it.  We then went and had "Better than 3rd Grade" cake (edited out for my mommy) which Whit made and it was delicious.

The next clinical was a lot more eventful.  I got to insert a catheter on my own!!! I know it sounds gross but it was really interesting and a lot more fun than just watching a nurse. After that clinical Brian and Kyle Richardson were in town and I really wanted to go to a haunted house so Whit, Nick, Javier (a friend from down here), Kyle and I went to Salt Lake to meet Brian.  We got to the place, and I already could feel myself getting scared. Kyle decided he didn't want to go, so it was the 5 of us.  We lined up so that the girls weren't in the front or back (the two scariest places of course). We pretty much screamed the ENTIRE time.  It was so much fun. The rooms were like optical illusions too, so that was sweet.  Definitely something I'd do again.

Last week we got to do a Health Fair.  It was the best one by far, and not only because it was only 4 hours long. We were able to give flu shots! I was really nervous at first but after the first one it's really fun.  After I went with some friends in my nursing cohort and went to the Original Pancake House.  I split an omelet and coconut pancakes with a friend and it was SO good. I have a really good group too which makes everything fun.

My weeks are full of school and volleyball.  I got above average on a micro test! (mainly because the average was so low, but still!) And I got an A on my nursing test. So things are going well. Whit's roommate is getting married and moving out in December so I'm moving in to her apartment, which is what we tried doing earlier but it was all filled.  I'm excited for that though. I did have pictures at the Nightmare on 13th but lost it somewhere...so another boring post without pictures..sorry!