PACU/ PICC team

This past week in school we had 2 tests! Med/Surg I made a 82 and Pedi a 71. I'm still passing both classes so that's ok by me! Since I have this wonderful splint on my hand I haven't been able to do anything at clinicals, so instead I was in Day Surgery Pacu for 2 days this week. I got to watch a cicumcision of the most adorable little baby. I couldn't believe how fast it was! And after he shot the lidocaine in, he stopped crying. He was so good! And it was very interesting! On friday I got to follow the PICC team around. I got to see them put only 1 in, but it was very cool. I got to see the IV go through the vein into the heart. It curled up at first under the axillary, but after that she got it in just perfect! It was very cool! Now I'm even considering doing that! It would just be very awesome and you still have to use sterile technique, so I can be anal about that! haha=) So it was a good week after all! (Despite the fact that I locked the keys to the rental in my car wednesday.) I'm just ready for my bit of bad luck to be gone....

Surgery is awesome!!!

This is great for my 30th post!
Let me start by saying though that Monday 3-16-09 I got in a wreck. The truck I hit did not even have a scratch on it. My car has deployed air bags and a smashed front end. I have a broken finger. It totally sucks. More painful than I thought it would be actually. Plus my arm is all bruised up. And I got the ticket. Sucks even more. It was a bad monday.

Today however....I got to see 3 surgery's!!!! First I got to see a doctor cut someone's neck open to get a biopsy to see if the patient had thyroid cancer. It was benign and showed she had hashimoto's. ( Basically hypothyroidism) It was really interesting to see though. And I never knew they sewed up an inside layer before that layer you see. Really cool. Then I got to see the same doctor do a hernia repair. Kinda weird. Lots of squishy guts being pulled out. Then the big one! I got to see Dr. R (who just happens to be the doc who's seeing me for my broken finger) do a Total Knee Angioplasty! It was awesome! It first looked like when you cut open a baked potato and then pull it apart. Yeah that's what his knee looked like. Then he took an electric chisel and just started chiseling away the bone. Bone was flying everywhere! It was pretty awesome. He had to grind some of it away and then other times he just took something that looked like pliers and just started pulling at pieces and breaking them off. It was so weird. They came out of the scrub room with these weird hats on. They had fans in them to keep them cool under the jumpsuits they were wearing. It was so cool. And he had this "Navigation System" to help him line everything up and tell him the size of the implant he would need. He had to hammer these long metal rods into his knees to line everything up. That's what sent it to the Navigation System. It was very awesome. Best day this week definitely!

End of Spring Break.....

So I am now at the end of my Spring Break. Cody and I went to see Jeffery in Dallas last friday and stayed till Tuesday. We went there to look at a school for me to go to if we decide to move to Dallas in August. It was not a good school. I have recently found another one on line since then. Tarrant County College in Fort Worth. We also have been looking for apartments and jobs. We are applying everywhere trying to find me a job. We shall see! I can't wait to see what God has in store for us! So now I start back school tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it. The lectures are getting much more boring and our best teacher, Mrs. A, just happened to quit before spring break. She was awesome and a great lecturer. So we now just have horrible instructors now. We have 2 tests back to back the next week. I'm just continuing to pray that I can pass! I just need to get back into studying mode. It feels weird to have 3 days of clinicals. I'm never motivated to study just cuz I'm always tired when I get home from that! But I am loving them still. This week I get to go to PACU. I'm excited about that! Then to the ER on Friday! Yay! Now If I can just finish my case study, care plans, PACU paperwork, and study for both tests, I'll be going great!