Finally Over!

This last week has been long and exhausting. I worked 5 12hour noc shifts in a row and Ben played Mr. Mom. We are both glad to have this week over because we haven't had much family time.

I learned all sorts of things at work this week. The first thing I learned is how to flush a catheter. See when people have in a foley catheter sometimes you have to flush water through it to make sure the catheter doesn't get clogged. The catheter has a port to flush it and a port that is used specifically to keep the catheter in the bladder (it is the port that blows the ballon up to keep the catheter inside you). Well I learned this the hard way. A lady asked me to flush her so I went and asked a nurse to help me. The nurse threw me two 10 ml syringes and said just push them into the port. I was a little frustrated because she wouldn't come with me, so I had to figure it out myself. Whoops, I pushed 20 ml of water into the balloon port. The balloon burst and there were absolutely no supplies for me to fix it. This all of course happened right at the end of my shift so I was dreading the next nurse coming in and yelling at me for leaving her a mess. Luckily it was a nurse that loves my mom so because she loves my mom she loves me by association so she took care of it for me.

The second thing I learned is what my mom has always told me. Family either thinks you are the best nurse in the world or the worst nurse in the world. One night this week a daughter of a resident came in looking for the nurse caring for her mother (which was me) then chewed me out for not calling her the night before at 2:30 in the morning when her mom had a high blood sugar. The next night, I left a breathing treatment in a ladies room after giving her evening meds. Her dad brought it out to me and told me what a good nurse I was.

The third thing I learned is that it doesn't matter who did it or didn't do it, if you are the one delivering the message to the doctor you are the one who is going to get yelled at for it. A lady had a fall on my shift so I had to fill out all the paper work and leave a message with the DNS. The only thing I couldn't do was call the doctor because no doctor wants to get woken up in the middle of the night to hear their patient fell, but there is not a mark on them. I left that duty to day shift. 7pm rolls around and I am back on shift. Nobody called the doctor, nobody called the family. The nurse I was relieving told me not to worry about it and she would take care of it Monday. I of course didn't wait. I called the doctor as soon as she left and the doctor was upset with me because he should have been called earlier in the day.

The fourth and most important thing I learned was to never, never, never pick up 60 hours in one week ever again!!!

Welcome To The Gun Show

Uncle Kyle came over tonight. He decided to show Travis how to do a gun show. If you look close you will notice that both of them have little belly hang-overs.

Grandpa Johnson wasn't doing to well so this last Thursday I called in sick to work so Ben and I could take Travis up to see him. He was sure glad to see us. We sat and talked to him for a couple of hours. We had a great visit and Ben and I were both very impressed by the place he is staying at. After our visit we decided to hit Park City on the way home. We got lost, so thank goodness for cell phones and family that know their way around. Here are some pictures from our short little trip.

Travis got a brand new shirt. It fits him well.

On the car ride home Travis got his hands on a blanket that was sitting by his carseat. How he got ahold of it, I don't know, but he sure loved the feel of it.

Here is Ben giving Travis kisses and loves in Grandpa Johnson's room.

In these next pictures Grandpa Johnson decided to take a quick nap. Travis decided to join him.

A Visit From Aunt Becky

Here is a face we don't get to see as often as we would like to. Aunt Becky was passing through Pocatello last Sunday and she stopped to visit her nephew. Thanks for stopping by.

Crazy Days

If you ever get bored come to our house. There is never a dull moment.

Don't do this at home. Tim came over to our house to hang out. Ashley wanted him to give her a piggyback and then when she was on his back she saw Travis laying in his pack-n-play and decided she wanted to bring him along for the ride. Silly mom takes the fun out of everything and made them put him down and then lectured them for trying to carry her baby like that.

Now that school is back in session nap times are harder to come by for everybody so when we get the opportunity we take advantage of them.

Speaking of nap time. Travis finally moved up to his 3-6 month clothes. We put him in his newest church outfit and he decided it needed a little color to it. Needless to say it took it all out of him, but at least he felt better when it was finished.



When I was pregnant I found a leap frog toy and I had to buy it. We decided to see if Travis was big enough for it. What do you think?

At our house the momma does the bills and the daddy take them to the mailbox, but he always brings a buddy along with him.

Here is our naked boy trying to escape from getting his diaper put back on.


If you haven't heard, our sister-dog Jazzy died a couple weeks ago. Jazzy had a boyfriend named Mater who is the yellow dog in this picture. Mater still comes over to look for Jazzy almost everyday. When I came home one weekend Mater tried to eat me so my mom had to come save me. Don't worry about Mater though my mom got us a new sister-dog named Cracker. She's too young for Mater yet, but she'll get there. Pictures of Cracker are to come.