Tisk, Tisk, Tisk.... I know, I know...

I admit, I suck at blogging. I thought it would catch on rather easily, but, let's be honest-- my life is rather dull and I really don't have anything to "blog" about daily/weekly... or heck, monthly for that matter!

So, I figure if I update this once every 3 months--that's a huge accomplishment. Soooo--here we go.

The wedding plans are being finalized. The wedding invites are stuffed and now I just have to get in the mode of writing out the addresses. (think pretty handwriting Laura!) My mom FINALLY found a dress.... in Saint Louis. Yes, we drove 4 hours to STL to find her a dress. Apparently KC's dress shopping scene isn't good enough for her. (Ok, ok, in her defense, NO one has clothing in size 0 for her...making it difficult to imagine a pretty dress when it's 14 sizes too big).

About a month ago, I moved in with the fiance'. Of course, I thought this would be "wierd" and like, "ooooh gross, I'm living with a boy.... forever!" But... it isn't. I love it. I come home from work, just in time to see Kevin leave-- ( I pack him a brown sack lunch & kiss him goodbye). Uhh, are we the Cleavers? Umm, anything but that!

My 3 dogs smell up the house. I think Bath & Body Works know me by name because I bought out the store one day... De-stinkifying the house is merely impossible.

Brewski (AKA PEANUT) is now over 20 pounds. Yup, I nursed him back to health and now he is a fatty :) Then of course, Bailey and Barley are sweeter than ever-- they love being a big brother and protect Brewski from taunting squirrels.

Umm. To back track, I'm still working the grave shift. Working nights kick my butt... I have dark circles and my eyes are a permanent shade of red.... but hey, I love it. The girls are great, the babies are challenging and the pay--- ah, can't complain.

Welp. Time for change of shift. AMEN, AMEN. Maybe I"ll continue this lovely update after a few hours of sleep....
... and that's a maybe... don't count on it :)

Last Night of Orientation

Okay, so I have been working so hard these past 4 months... I have been reading and racking my brain to saturate everything I learn on my floor... Finally, I'm done.  However, last night was a true test of my new found ability..

Okay, so there is a 2.8kg, 2 week old baby in with apnea spells.  MRI shows minor infarct to parts of the brain, otherwise within the normal limits; truly, she looks like a healthy baby. (and let me tell you, she CRIES & POOPS like a healthy baby!) 

However, for some reason during/after all feedings she totally checks out and tries to die on me! (5 times last night).  She'd brady down into the 70's (normal is 120-180 typically for neonates) and saturations would PLUMMET within seconds to the 50's (and yah, normal is 95-100%)!  Her eyes would roll back in her head, be totally unresponsive, blue lips, dusky skin and limp.

Lets just say vigorous stimulation was applied with O2 blow-by several times.  And with that, thankfully, she'd come back to life all disoriented and exhausted.  Crazy baby.

Yesterday they did a video EEG on her and captured a good spell during the test; they decided she only had central apnea.  (I say Bull-crap)

So that was baby number 1.  My 2nd baby recently received a tracheostomy.  Last night, after a feeding, my preceptor & I decided to change his trach ties and clean the site.  (Ok, lets back track, TRACHS are the only thing that made me almost ralph back in nursing school--).  So as I'm cleaning the site, he starts to get all worked up and decides to PUKE up his food thru the trach site like projectile vomit across the room.  Luckily & amazingly, he seemed to miss my scrub top by like 5cm, or else I would have been going home smelling like curdled milk.  Gross. 

Needless to say, he was a bundle of joy.  

Happy weekend to all!

2008 Wrap Up

Happy New Year!  Here's a quick 2008 year in review: -Graduated from Nursing School

  - Kevin & I got engaged

  -Passed boards (oooh yeah)

  -Started CMH orientation August 11

  -COMPLETED orientation Jan 03!!

HAPPY 2009 to ALL~