Back From Hiatus

Well you know how sometimes the best laid intentions just don't work out... well that's what's happened this past few days! I kept trying to get on to blog and a million things happened... including getting locked out of my own computer for over 10 hours from some weird app-gone-wrong. A few times I was "able" to blog, but since it was past midnight and I already was running on like -3 hours of sleep, I decided that the world would just have to be able to handle it that I couldn't write that night. But now I'm back! And excited to be able to continue with the blog! I thought about writing a blog for each day I missed, because while I wasn't able to type it on the computer... the idea of the blog is always on my mind and I reflected plenty about what experiences I would share each day. But after how long it took to catch up after my Santa Barbara weekend, I decided it was best to just do one blog that is a recap of the past few days instead. So here it goes!


Saturday! Saturday was a trying, trying day. I had to follow a nurse that was nothing more than miserable. I really can't remember a time where someone treated me like I was so invisible, insignificant, or burdensome. She was a piece of work. And then apparently ended up complaining about my instructor, myself, and another student for "not caring and being lazy". Yah... okay lady. So my challenge of choosing love on Saturday was essentially to not blow up on her or to defend myself. I just let her have her moment of being a jerk. I know that I am a great nurse. I know I try my best to learn everything I can. I know she was a total rude and bitter jerk to me that day. I just tried to extend grace her way and realize that I don't know her or her life or what is going on in her mind or heart that was making her act like that. So that was a tough experience--but I tried my best!!

Sunday! I was going to do my Spotlight Sunday... but the person I was writing it on deserved way more than a rushed blog post... so I'm waiting for this Sunday to give them a real shout-out! I spend all of Sunday running around with a friend of one of my good friends. The kid is from Texas, doesn't know anyone in LA besides his family, and asked if I wouldn't mind showing him around while he is down here for Spring Break. While I had a lot to do... because: nursing school... I knew the right thing to do would be to make him feel welcome. So we went all around... The Queen Mary, Aquarium of the Pacific, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Madame Tussauds of Hollywood, and to dinner. I knew that he also didn't have a lot of money... so I paid for quite a bit of his share of things. I think that he really enjoyed hanging out. And it's always nice to be able to invest in other people! It showed me the long grasp that God can have on our lives. I really didn't even know this kid... but because of Jesus I knew my friend and my friend knew him! So hopefully he will go back to school from Spring Break feeling loved and cared for :)

Monday! I'm going to be missing a clinical day towards the end of this quarter, so I had to make it up on Monday. I was really excited because my instructor works at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and so my make-up day was there! I had a fantastic nurse and really was able to do and learn a lot! I am so incredibly grateful for my instructor. She is so lovely. I chose love on Monday by texting someone I didn't really want to text to earnestly wish them luck on their job interviews this week. It was hard because I have a rocky past with this person and it ended with me being the one who was hurt... however, I knew it was the right thing to do. It was important that this person knew that someone was rooting for their success. Definitely tough, but totally worth it.

Tuesday! We got our grades back for our OB test and not one person passed. Oh boy. Good news is that this means she threw out all the Select All That Apply questions and we all did much better. But she had us "learn how to do those types of questions" in class and made it clear that we are all in for a rude awakening on the next test. Yikes! I am grateful that we didn't all suffer this time though! I was able to get started on writing some of those letters to my penpals. None of them are done yet, but a lot are started! I chose love today by learning that a girl in my class was going through a procedure Wednesday and went and got her a card after class. Then I went to my parents' house and was able to spend the night with them and my brother! That was all wonderful, of course!!!


I will write about Wednesday (today) later tonight! Glad to be back in the swing of writing everything down again!