On Becoming A Nurse – Summer Part Three

I can't even begin to describe how hectic this summer has been! I'm happy to admit that I have found some areas of nursing that I have really enjoyed. Following is an excerpt from a paper I wrote for school. "Toward the end of last semester, while I was at Moravian Manor, Ms. Acrie shared …

Landscape and Scenery Part 1

I've been wanting to post more pictures of all the beautiful areas around where I live. I haven't done it yet, because my collection is incomplete, but here's what I have so far. All of these pictures were taken at Middle Creek. The lake Okay, so this isn't strictly a scenery picture, but it's so …

Canvas

When your thoughts are all swirling around so fast, you can’t make sense of them; it’s like a huge piece of modern art. Swirls of intense, confusing colors, blotches of blood red so deep it hurts to look. Gaping holes of untouched canvas, where the questions were never answered. Unfinished edges, because the story isn’t …

What I Love About Getting Up Early

Of course, "early" is relative. What feels early for me to get up might feel like sleeping in for someone else, or vice versa. I've gotten so used to getting up "early" that I automatically wake up around 6 am every morning, even on mornings I can sleep in. There are a quite a few …

My Trip To North Dakota

(Please pardon the poor quality pics. My phone takes terrible pics, and I didn't have my camera with me.) When my brother Andrew was first going to the Summer Institute of Linguistics six years ago, Uncle Dennis teased him that there really is no North Dakota. "Have you ever been to North Dakota?"... "Have you …

Summer Storms and God’s Sovereignty

This summer there have been a lot of storms and tornadoes. My friends who know me well know that I really don’t like storms. In fact, I could honestly say I’m terrified of them. The fact that I’m easily startled doesn’t help. Besides, lightning and thunder are scary enough when they make you jump, and …

On Becoming a Nurse – Summer Part Two

Four weeks down, eight to go! One of my professors said that this summer, many of us will find our life work. She also said that we would probably find out that we really love certain fields of nursing that we maybe didn't expect to, or that maybe we would find out that what we …

A Tribute To Nana

It's hard to believe it was two years ago that Nana (my mom's mom) passed away and joined the great cloud of witnesses waiting for us to complete the race... On Wednesday, my mom had a tribute tea for Nana. Mom set the table with Nana's zomeldosen (not sure if I spelled that correctly), and …

You Know You’re In Nursing School…

Just a few fun thoughts... You know you're in nursing school... ...when you see this sign and think of D5W (dextrose 5% in water for IV) ...when you grab a squishy banana and immediately think of the wounds you dressed at clinical ...when you have way too much hand sanitizer, because you take some with …

Oh, The Places You’ll Go

The places I've been going lately have definitely been adventures... In this post, I'm just sharing a few photos of the beautiful scenery I've seen on my way to some of my clinical sites. This particular morning, I had to get up at 4:30 to go to clinical. I'm used to getting up at 6, …