Sick and Tired

So last week I started coming down with a chest cold.  I did my best to fight it off but I have officially lost the battle.  My cough has gotten so bad the last few days.  I HATE having a cough.  It doesn’t help that my cough is totally unproductive so it is never ending.  It’s like a have a permanent tickle in my chest and no matter how much I cough, it doesn’t “scratch” it. 

Consequently, I haven’t been sleeping very well and that is bad because I have a ton of studying to do this weekend…oh well.  I am thinking I might try these Reliv shakes that everyone has been talking about.  I figure it can’t hurt anyway.  And heck, SEW getting pregnant was the best advertisement of them all…!  Just kidding, I realize this is not infertility cure but since I am now sick and miserable, anything that gets me back to being healthy sounds good to me.  Especially with my crazy schedule. And Sew did say it helped with her PMS so anything that can help me with that would be worth a LOT of money!

So on Wednesday at my clinical at the hospital I did my first catheter insertion.  Crazy huh?  It went really well but I was shaking like a leaf.  My instructor coached me through it and it wasn’t that bad.  Thankfully the patient was completely out of it so he had no idea what was going on.  The perfect patient to get your first one over with. 

I also got my final evaluation for this first round of clinicals (Fundamentals).  My instructor said I was one of her top students which made me feel really good.  I’ve been working hard to do a good job and though I haven’t been perfect by any means, I definitely feel like I’m doing pretty well!  The next 4 weeks of clinicals are for Med-Surg I and we will be getting more patients (3) at a time.  I am not too worried though.  I am learning a TON which is cool.

As much as I have been enjoying clinicals, I am definitely getting the feeling that med-surg is not going to be my first choice.  I am so excited to do OB and Pediatrics next semester!  I think I will REALLY love those rotations!

Ok, I must go make some tea and get back to studying!  I wish there was someway to just download all this information into your brain with the click of a button, like on your computer…whoever invents that will be a cajillionaire!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my doctor said we could have a phone consultation on Monday night!  Yay!  I am thankful he was willing to work with me on the time!  I can’t wait to hear what he has to say.  I doubt he’ll have any major revelations but I’m really ready to get going on trying something new.  AF is right around the corner so it will be the perfect time to start something.