This week was our first week in clinical rotation. I have to say that this semesters clinicals are a lot different and a lot more educational than last semester. Last semester we were all together in a nursing home and this semester we are all seperated in a hospital. It is a lot scarier and a lot more intimidating this semester because you don't have a buddy with you, they make you come out of your bubble. My first rotation was Labor and Delivery. My shifts are 3-11 so there isn't too much that goes on in the afternoon in that department. I wasn't sure I would see anything.
My first day was Wednesday and i was prepared and ready to see a baby be born, but I went there and there was nobody. I sat the whole eight hours. It was very disappointing. Thursday I went back and they said they didn't have anyone so I was kind of bummed out, but I saw one of their delivery rooms closed and I asked about it and they said one nurse had a patient in there that might have a baby. I asked the nurse if I could go in with her so the nurse took me in with her and asked the patient if I could watch if she had her baby and she said I could. The nurse left me in there with the patient and a student midwife and the student midwife was really good to me. She let me follow her around and she explained everything to me. The patient that I was with did not want an epidural. She was one tough lady. She was dialated to a seven and still walking around the halls and only have to stop every once in a while for a contraction. Finally the midwife made her go to her room and sit for a while. The contractions were getting closer and closer. They decided to have her push once she was dialated to about a 9. i was at the foot of the bed just watching everything, but they needed an extra hand to hold the ladies leg so they had her husband on the left and they had me on the right. It only took a few minutes and the baby came out and it was blue and crying and there was lots of blood....it was awesome. Then it was cord cutting time so they asked the dad if he wanted to cut it, but he said the midwifes could do it and they were so cool they turned and asked me if I wanted to, so I got to cut the cord. How cool is that? That baby was so cute too. He was eight pounds with a head full of hair and his shoulders were fuzzy and he was born with a tooth. The nurse was going to let me do a fundus massage after we gave the family some time together, but she couldn't find me so I didn't get to do it, but I'll eventually get to when I rotate to post-pardum.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Blessings of Tithing
We are only two weeks into school and already this semester is going by smoothly. It's almost too good to be true. Ben and I have had a couple of good experiences these last two weeks and since our camera died all we have is stories to post.
Ben and I were both really stressed out about how we were going to make it through this semester because we have to pay our bills, our doctor visits, we have to pay for the baby delivery in May, and we have to pay for my summer school tuition with fees and state boards exam and fees. On top of all that Ben had to cut back on his hours this semester because his school schedule won't let him work as often as he could last semester and with two days of clinicals and two days of lab I can't pick up more shifts either. We went through our budget over and over and kept coming up short. I didn't think we would make it through this semester at all until three days before school started. I went and checked my email one afternoon after Ben had left for work and got an email from a lady that I won a scholarship. I thought it was junk email or something like that. I almost deleted it, but just before I did I remembered that a few months earlier my mom helped me fill out a scholarship for school and I completely forgot about it. Ben and I went into the school and that's where the scholarship came from. I wasn't expecting to get anything, like I said I completely forgot about it, but we won it and it is plenty to help us get through summer semester. I was so excited, I called my mom to tell her we won and to thank her for helping me get everything together for it and she said, "It's what you get for paying your tithing".
Ben and I were both really stressed out about how we were going to make it through this semester because we have to pay our bills, our doctor visits, we have to pay for the baby delivery in May, and we have to pay for my summer school tuition with fees and state boards exam and fees. On top of all that Ben had to cut back on his hours this semester because his school schedule won't let him work as often as he could last semester and with two days of clinicals and two days of lab I can't pick up more shifts either. We went through our budget over and over and kept coming up short. I didn't think we would make it through this semester at all until three days before school started. I went and checked my email one afternoon after Ben had left for work and got an email from a lady that I won a scholarship. I thought it was junk email or something like that. I almost deleted it, but just before I did I remembered that a few months earlier my mom helped me fill out a scholarship for school and I completely forgot about it. Ben and I went into the school and that's where the scholarship came from. I wasn't expecting to get anything, like I said I completely forgot about it, but we won it and it is plenty to help us get through summer semester. I was so excited, I called my mom to tell her we won and to thank her for helping me get everything together for it and she said, "It's what you get for paying your tithing".
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