BACK AT IT!!

Dale and I got to enjoy a wonderful week at Disney earlier this month before all the craziness started back up. This was taken on our Wild Africa Trek at the Animal Kingdom. See the hippo in the water.

Well school started up this past week. The crazy schedules are already starting, the extended work hours to make up for the time I am taking off for school has started. The reading, the lectures, the seminars and quizzes have already started! Wow, it all happened so fast! It seemed summer was just going by slowly while we were waiting for our vacation and BAM, it was over and back at school. As crazy as life is getting, I'm so excited for this new semester.  

This semester will bring a rotation in med-surg (this is continuation and more in-depth of what we were doing last semester in the hospital setting); a rotation in maternity (labor and delivery) and pediatrics! No waiting to get into the hospital setting this semester.  Clinical start this Tuesday (my 30th wedding anniversary)! I'll be starting in the med-surg (general hospital floor) for four weeks before I move on to maternity. We are already learning about IV medications, with more calculations and how to administer the meds. We will actually have an IV lab this week where we will get the hands on practice we need. The following week we will have our childbearing lab. Now I've given birth to three children but never watched someone else give birth. I'm am so excited for this portion of the course.

So while I am watching lectures, reading chapters, going to classes, clinical, seminars and working, I am also still training for the Philadelphia 3-Day for the Cure! In just over one month, I'll be walking 60 miles in one weekend to raise awareness and funds to fight breast cancer.  I walked the Boston 3-Day for the Cure back in July and had such an amazing time, meeting so many new people in the Pink Family.  This weekend I am leading three - ten mile training walks!  Next weekend for anyone who is up to getting some miles in, we will be doing 18 miles on Saturday (and probably 12 on Sunday)!  

I hope to update my blog weekly like last semester.  So check back often to see what is new.