I get up at about 5:00 AM {unless I accidentally fall back to sleep for 10-15 minutes...but, of course, I don't do that. ;0) }, leave my house at 6:30, drive for an hour to an hour and a half to the hospital, draw blood all day {and when I'm not drawing blood, I'm restocking supplies or reading...I've read two books so far, haha!!}, leave at 4:30, drive another hour to hour and a half home, stop at the grocery story if needed, get home, change out of my scrubs into my pj's, eat something, veg for a short while and go to bed to start it all over again. *yawn*
So far I'm enjoying it, but I've had a couple of really frustrating days {where I miss the veins or can't re-adjust the needle without help...today was one of those days... *sigh*}. But in the six days I've been drawing blood, I've done around 125 draws, most of them successful.
Next week I start school again AND I have to be at the hospital at 4 AM to work in the in-patient clinic doing rounds. I'm gonna be BEAT. Not looking forward to getting up at 3 AM {cuz there's gonna be zero traffic so I don't have to give myself so much time to get there}, but I am looking forward to seeing how the in-patients differ from the out-patients.
Because life has been a bit crazy I haven't been responding to comments, which I apologize for. I'll try to catch up soon. Also, will you guys let me know if you receive the comments that I do {or rather, have left} leave in response to your comments, in your email? I believe it's set up to be sent to your email but for some reason I just feel like you're not getting my responses. I'd really appreciate it if you could let me know!!
Last thing. Yesterday, I woke up, went into the kitchen and started the coffee pot, walked into the bathroom and was STARTLED to see this:
That monster was larger than a half dollar, if its legs had been outstretched! I went down the hall to my bedroom, grabbed my phone and took a picture. Kyle was sleeping and he HAD to see this. I DID tell him that the biggest spider I had ever seen was in the bathroom but he barely stirred. I grabbed a ginormous wad of toilet paper, snatched that thing up and threw it into the toilet and immediately flushed, with the lid down. Trying to wake Kyle up to kill that thing for me would've been useless so I had to do it myself. Obviously I'm not AFRAID of spiders but I most definitely do NOT like them, especially when they could eat me alive! But I had to get ready to leave, and soon since I {ahem} woke up late, so I had to kill it myself.
I posted that picture on Twitter {sorry if you're seeing it again. heehee} and one of the local news guys retweeted it. Haha!
All this to say, please don't leave me!! Hang in there and I'll be around as I can and hope to be back more regularly after my externship is over!!
XOXO
