The little engine that could.......lose her sanity

Good afternoon everyone!

Well, I've been quite the busy girl with printing up just some of the assignments and notes to read for the beginning of the next school term. My poor printer has no clue what's coming in the months to come. I'm surprised the printer has lasted this long.

New ink cartridge? Yep.

New reams of paper? Yep.

New humongous 3 ring binder? Yep.

My sanity? Debatable.

Whose idea was it to buy a house and move at the beginning of a term? Yeah, that would be my idea. I've been having to print out document after document to appease the loan Gods (ahem) for all of the little proof of this, and proof of that so they will allow this mortgage to go to settlement. I had no idea of the paperwork involved in the purchase of a home! It's worse than being a nurse! (There - I said it! There IS something worse than a nurse's paperwork.)

I would love to be able to snap my fingers and magically have all of our furniture and boxes of stuff moved to the new house after we close. And boy, do we have a lot of stuff. I think there is going to be some serious weeding out of this huge amount of belongings!!

I am ready to be back in the swing of studying, test taking, and life in general. I always swore that the last time we moved, it would be the LAST TIME WE MOVED. Yeah, not so much. Six years later, we are feeling very confined in such a small rental property. Need more space!!

On the work side........

Where are all of these pregnant women coming from? We are standing room only at labor and delivery! It's not just where I live either, I'm hearing the same issues with full units all over the place.

Oh, and I was able to catch a baby recently. A big, fat, cute baby. So totally awesome!!!!

To be honest, I love being present on so many "birthdays"!

L&D, School, Home

Howdy everyone! It's been a very busy week on L&D and at the Cervix Household.

L&D: busting at the seams, as usual. We're not getting much relief in the influx of pregnant women. They just keep pouring in........with nary a room to spare. We're delivering babies in the triage unit. That's how busy it is at times. I don't know what the powers that be are thinking when they say that we don't have any RN positions open. Because we seriously need more nurses. Oh, and some more LDR rooms would be great too.

School: patho, patho, patho! I've taken two open book exams and one secure (closed book) exam so far. It was all on genetics, stress, inflammatory response, and some of the basic cellular things. Next up: the immune system. It's a biggie. Not doing a whole lot of reading for my History of Midwifery course, so I really need to get busy with that also. I have a paper due in about 4 weeks for that class.

Home: just found out that my other half has an extremely rare genetic immunity disorder. It explains a lot of the medical problems he has had since he was a child. Now, we just need to work on treatment of his existing problems. Since it's a chromosomal genetic disorder, it has no cure. Oh gee, and only 250 or so documented cases of it in the medical world. I'm concerned that our daughter might have it as well, since she exhibits several of the same symptoms. I need to get her in to see her pediatrician and have her evaluated. Quite ironic that I was just studying genetics, and now immunology........