the misfortune of others…

Nothing makes you appreciate what you have faster than seeing the misfortune of others.  I am doing my pediatric rotation for nursing school right now.  I feel SO lucky that I have 4 healthy children.  Some of the kids that I have cared for have had problems from birth, others have been in accidents.  You just never know when something is going to happen, it’s so cliche, but it’s true.  2 weeks down, 5 to go!  December is getting closer by the minute. 

I SUCK

Wow!  I really suck at this whole blogging thing.  That’s what nursing school does to people.   You have no time for ANYTHING!  You do what they want when they want it.  Yes, I am their bitch, they own me, I admit it.  It’s funny how I am paying THEM for this sort of treatment.  You may as well just bend me over now.  And thanks to my clinical instructor I started smoking again.  I had quite back in October.  But again, that’s what nursing school does to you.  I actually have a tiny light at the end of the tunnel though,  I will be done in December!  At this point it can’t come soon enough.  The classes are 7 1/2 weeks long and I am in between classes right now.  I actually have a week off to breathe, regroup and start over again with a new class.  YIPPEE!!!

How time flies….

Wow, how time gets away from you sometimes. It has been 8 weeks since “Quinn”. My days have completely switched gears. I went from being totally consumed by pregnancy to being totally consumed by the loss of the pregnancy to hardly thinking about the pregnancy. That’s what happens when you are in nursing school. I finally started back. I have been out of school since the end of June last year just waiting for a class I needed to come back around. The school doesn’t offer the class year round. The ironic thing about it is the class I am taking is OB. I couldn’t wait for the class to start when I found out I was pregnant. I thought it was going to be great fun to be in that class WHILE I was pregnant (talk about an easy A). Then when I lost the baby just a month before the class started I was completely bummed. I didn’t want to go….I was dreading it. Well, I am doing OK with being around all those Mom’s and babies during clinicals and I got to see the most awesome thing ever………I got to see a birth. It is TOTALLY different seeing the whole thing from the other perspective. I mean NOT from the bed. If you ever get the opportunity to see a live birth, not one on TV, but to actually be there than seize that opportunity. It truly is the most awesome thing you will ever see in your life.