I returned from a very busy last minute trip to Oregon and began my semester running. I flew in on Wednesday night, after missing two days of class. On Thursday I had a flat tire and luckily I live next to a street sweeping company and their shop. One of the guys was nice enough to take my car into the shop at 5:30am and repair my flat tire. I had to be at school at 8 am because I had a test on my first day back.
Have you ever felt so tired that you feel like you are blowing everything out of perspective. Well, I am there. I feel like there are two of me. The one who is in the midst of the chaos, and blowing even small things out of perspective. Then there is the one sitting back and knows that they are making things bigger than they need to be but can't seem to do anything about it. It is a weird feeling and one I am ready to be past.
This semester we are covering mother and baby, pediatrics, psych, and a few weeks of critical care. I am currently learning about the birthing process and the newborn but my clinical time is in pediatrics. The material is wonderful but by nature of a shorter semester the schedule is packed. Thank God I am not working beyond my every other weekend. I am now not getting home till 4 or 5pm and then trying to find time to study. We just started school last Tuesday and already we have our first test this coming monday. It all feels like a mad dash to the finish.
Tomorrow I get to go into the Operating room and watch a few surgery's. They have already warned us to eat breakfast or else we will pass out. I don't get bothered by blood and things but it should be interesting. Friday I will have my first day in pediatrics which I am hoping will be a chance for me to see if that is something I want to do. They say loving children is not enough to go into peds. Besides dealing with the parents, it can be tough to watch a child be sick. I feel like it could be a place I would thrive, but I guess that is yet to be seen.
Well, I am off to bed and up for another long day tomorrow. Please pray for my test on Monday and Tuesday and that somewhere in the midst of this I can find some rest and some perspective.
Leeann’s 11!
10 years ago
1 comments:
I was laughing at your post (not you, I promise) only because I can SOOOOOOOOOOO relate to what you are feeling!! Good times, good times! Man, it sounds like this semester will be very interesting! Hope surgery is fun tomorrow. every year in high school, my dad would take me to work with him on "take your child to work" day....I would watch 3-4 surgeries...it didn't matter if I had a full stomach or not. the first sight of cutting the skin made me SO dizzy and light headed that I would always have to leave for a couple minutes, down a big cup of water and then I would be just fine and would return to the operating room for the remainder of the day. Weird, huh!
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