I've started my new rotation on Advanced Care...not bad, very busy but they are very sick patients. I enjoy it but there is not nearly enough heart stuff. I was so excited when one of my pts came back from an angiography and had had a fem line pulled...finally, something I can work with! hahaha! Had a couple of firsts occur this week but none I can speak of here.
Our anniversary is on Friday and we had planned on getting new rings but d/t an unforeseen circumstance with the car, we will not be able to. So now I have to find something to get Eric and only Wednesday to shop for it! I have class on Monday and Friday and I'm working on Tuesday and Thursday. (42 scheduled hours this week!) I can't believe it's been 7 years. You don't see how long it's been; like with kids, you see how they grow over the years...marriages aren't like that. I can't look at a picture of us from 5 years ago and "see" how we've grown. I guess that's why it's so hard to believe that we've been married for 7 years and how his parents can't believe they've been married for 40+ years. With the boys I'm even startled sometimes...we got a pair of pants a few years ago from my SIL and I thought, "gee, Ryan is never going to fit in those." Well, he barely does now, already ready to outgrow them. :o) I just can't wait to see what the next year, next seven years, next seventeen years will bring us.
This past Wednesday I got to have lunch with Amber and Jennifer, Mindy and Stacy were working/had just gotten off of work. After lunch the three of us went to Target and shopped around-had a wonderful time! Got to see Amber's themes throughout her house. It's going to be so nice and I'm so excited for her. Jennifer had to go home after that but Amber and I went to Marshall's where I bought a $380 short trench coat (Vertigo Paris) for $40 and my first Aigner purse for $30! So excited to use it this spring! The coat is stunning! And the lining is so soft!! It's kind of lame how excited I am about this. hahaha! Anyway, I had such a good time with them. I miss seeing them as often as I used to. I guess I just got spoiled being in school.
Surrogacy update: I am moving forward with another company. No clue on when I would be able to carry for a couple as they would have to buy the insurance for me but at least it's a possibility. I'm so excited!
Something happened at work this week. Very ill man, DNR, family having trouble dealing, the works. They prayed. I'm pretty open in the fact that I'm agnostic. I believe in God but not they way most people do. I can't not believe that there is something bigger than myself, something that is too great for me to understand. But I don't believe in heaven or hell, in prayer, some guy watching me up in the sky, etc. I don't mean to be crass or put down another person's belief's, at the end you'll see it's quite the opposite. See, I don't believe in these things myself, but I believe in them for my patients, their families, my friends and my family. I found such comfort that my patient and family found comfort in believing. I didn't feel like everything was going to be okay in the sense that he would live but that he could die peacefully and his family could cope in a way that was healing for them. I think when I say I'm agnostic people take it as I don't believe in anything. But I guess what I believe in is peace for yourself, whatever it is you take comfort in. I appreciate my friends praying for me (though, I didn't always) because I know they care and they find comfort in prayer. I hope this is all making sense. Religion always gets so complicated and I'm trying to describe it on a very basic level.
Well, I suppose I should call it a night soon. That 42 hours is going to be rough to get through...but at least I have three days off after that. And Friday night I get a date night with my hubby. <3 Nothing fancy, of course, because that's just not us. We are going to Red Robin, movies and maybe a hotel for the evening. We sure could use time by ourselves.
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Religion is complicated and so many times people further complicate it by trying to understand it for everyone. I tell people what I believe when the occasion arises, I don't try to convert people and hit them with my bible, that tends to turn people away! :) I just know that until I found what I found, I was not at peace, even when I tried to convince myself I was. I know where I will go when I die, and that helps me sleep and go through the day. That's me.
ReplyDeleteI am excited for you and Eric to celebrate 7 years together!! I am really sorry about the car and the rings though. I hope you get the hotel for the evening!
I was spoiled by school too, I totally think we should all work together on the same floor- it would have to be a ICU/heart/cancer/children's floor- however they could work that out, and all days lol.
All days from 11a...I don't like waking up at 5 am. We could work ICU at Children's. I'd get my heart stuff...still see CA and it's Peds. Maybe we should build our own hospital? lol
ReplyDeleteWe should totally build our own hospital!
ReplyDeleteReligion is Hard... especially if you are trying to force faith... If you have been raised in the church it just comes natural... for those of us that weren't, It's natural to question and have a cynical perspective... I'm not religious, but Ive seen god... maybe not in physical form... but, in little miracles like my children, and the friends and family healing from sickness... or even the way we manage to get by day to day... If you have faith, It can be very comforting.
ReplyDeleteThat's my thinking as well. It's hard to say that there is no God...my boys' beautiful faces say otherwise. Like I said, my comfort comes in knowing that my family and friends have found comfort in believing in something, anything, that gets them through those days that you can't believe and helps them heal. Just wanted to share that feeling I had when I was with that family. BTW, Amber, thank you for not hitting me with your Bible. It is greatly appreciated. :o)
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