It's A Girl!!!!!!

Hello all my blogger friends. I am still here (in case you missed me and wondered) Life is super busy! I am still having to work as the DON in our office and its about to run me to the ground. I can't wait for Pam to get back!! I really miss her! We have been super busy, which is good I guess but it will make you soooooo tired!

I have some exciting news!!! I have a baby!!...Now calm down, before you get carried away and start sending me well wishes this is not the kind of baby you have to get up with every 2 hours during the night or change a poopie diaper, the only thing I will be changing is the OIL on this baby...I got a new car!!! It is SOOOO awesome! Will brought it to my work on Wednesday with a HUGE red ribbon on the top of it. I was so freaking AWESOME!

It is pretty awesome! It's just what I wanted!! He did so good! Can I just say I have the BEST husband in the whole wide world! He spoils me rotten! He brought it to my work with a full take of gas--guess he thought I would want to show it off or something haha--the car tag and inspection sticker on. It was GREAT!! I am so in love!!

What a Weekend

I don't have a clue where to begin! This has been a crazy weekend! Some good, and some not so good. I guess I will start from Friday afternoon when I was leaving work....Okay so I'm driving home from working excited *yea!!* because Will and I are suppose to leave to go to Atlanta for the weekend. Will's parents go several times a year for the Gift Market to buy for their store. So we decided that we would go and just hang out. Will wanted to look at "artsy" furniture :-) Anyway back to driving home. I was by the Wal-Mart on West Main Street and was slowing down for the light. There was a truck in front of me and I was thinking I need to call Will and let him know I was on the way home--no people I was not on my phone when this happened-- All of a sudden I get thrown into the truck in front of me, bounce off the back of truck, my airbags deployed and my windshield cracked. It was the weirdest thing ever. I just kind of sat there in a daze. I swear I think I shook my head to clear the birds flying around--you know like the cartoons when the characters get knocked down and the little birdies fly around--I remember thinking "Crap did I just hit the truck in front of me--I wasn't going that fast???" Turns out the guy behind me wasn't paying

attention and was doing about 35-40 and hit the back end of me which cause my poor little Corolla to go flying into the back end of the truck. Poor car is gone! You can't really seen the damage is this picture--I didn't think to take a picture until they where towing my car. I wasn't hurt, I am very stiff however. Now on to the fun part of my weekend--we went on to Atlanta and got there kind of late. Saturday was absolutely BeAuTiFuL! We did a lot of walking around. We went to Ikea--its pretty awesome but a word of advice, go with a plan! There is a TON of stuff.

Like I said earlier, Will wanted to look at some artsy furniture. He bought this chair that he had been wanting for some time now

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Oh and today we went to this Exhibition called Bodies Exhibition. It was VERY awesome! I would

highly recommend this to anyone! Check it out! Very educational.

Toooo big a shoe to fill

Wow, what can I say about today??? Well for starter I will begin with the fact that our DON (director of nursing--my rock, well probably everyones) has been out for 3 weeks with the flu and pneumonia and then was put in the hospital with further complications. She is very sick and has a long recovery ahead--but I will elaborate more on that later.

Today I had the joy (yes that is a sarcastic joy) of "trying" to take Pam's place while she is out. She got the flu and then on top of that she got what the doctors thought to be pneumonia but where unable to get her blood count to go down even after multiple antibiotics. She ended up in the hospital and had to have a cyst-like mass removed from her lungs that had built up. She is looking at a 6 week long or more recovery time and we are all missing her VERY much!! I am attempting to help out with her job until she is able to return.

First of all I think that a lot of people probably take for granted all Pam does and has to put up with. From all the paperwork and keeping that straight--and I can say that, cause today I had a LOT of it today---scheduling, taking care of complaints, audits, talking to all the corporate folks and everything else in between, I don't see how she keeps it all straight. I feel very blessed to work under such a great person as Pam. I really and honestly couldn't have asked for a better DON. She will back you up in a heart beat and bend over backwards to help you, give you multiple times to get something right and she doesn't get bothered or act like we are ruining her day by calling her 50,000 times a day---or when we call her when we are on call and need something. :-)

Like I said earlier, we miss her VERY much and can't wait for her return!! This day--and I am sure in the days to come--has made me realize what a big job Pam has and there is NO way I could ever fill her shoes!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!!

One Tired Nurse

So I went back to work today. That probably was a mistake being just three days from my surgery. Oh well what can I say, I'm a hard headed nurse. We make the worst patients! So I went to the office with the expectation of seeing "a few"--3 maybe 4 pts--and then working on paperwork and staying in the office. Well that didn't work out so well. I think I ended up seeing like 8. I had to bend over to clean out this lady's stump and redress it--took me forever. She had a knee amputation that had got infected (it was SO nasty!! I took a picture but I'll spare yall...yeah for those of you who have never had abdominal surgery, it really hurts to bend over!! It ended up being 5 when I got off. Why is itwhenever I plan to get off early it never happens! It was one thing after another. By the time I got home I was so tired that when my husband said something about "medical bills" I started crying (I'm telling you people its these bc pills! Make me so dang moody) So I cried for a few minutes, did some laundry--my way of coping lol--then Faith (my sissy) made me

supper--under the instruction of her "bossy" big sis! So three hours later, a Lortab, TV, and my computer, I'm feeling much better! Word of advice to anyone having surgery; take plenty

of time off to rest fully! :-) Oh and apple pie à la mode yummy!

Surgery Daze

Well I had surgery yesterday for my stomach cramping. We had to be at the hospital at 8:30 which was good for Will because he is not a morning person and if we had to be there earlier I have this feeling we wouldn't have made it! Anyway when we get there--I was starving cause I couldn't eat or drink after midnight--they asked me a bunch of questions had to change into a sexy (not) hospital gown.

Will made fun of me cause I put makeup before I went to have surgery..please people I will be putting makeup on in labor on the way to the hospital!!! haha I can't help myself..Anyway then I got my IV....

I had a really sweet nurse named Monica. Can I just say I love the people who work at the Womens Center! They are some of the nicest people I know! I felt so loved cause cause lots of people came to check on me! Even my bestie from work, Stephanie came!! :-) They finally came and got me at 10ish--I was so nervous and I didn't think that it would ever be time. They took me and Will back to holding in surgery--can I just say I felt goofy riding on the stretcher. People look at you funny---My husband probably would say that I make that up in my head and I probably do. Dr. Young came and checked on me, by the way people he is GREAT!! Takes time to talk to you and he even called to check on me today! The Anesthetist Jimmy I think was his name came in and gave me some "happy" drugs"--made me not worried about having surgery! haha I remember rolling back to the surgery room, having a mask put over my face and the next thing I remember was waking up in recovery at 12:30! Its so weird.I really don't remember that much about yesterday I was so sleepy! I would wake up for a bit then doze back off. Much to my husbands regret I didn't say anything crazy, although Dr. Young tried to convince me I did! I have the best husband in the world! He has been taking good care of me! He treats me like a Queen! :-) I was sleepy today but feeling much better. Still very sore! I ventured to Hobby Lobby (my favorite store EVER) and I think that was a mistake. By the time I got home I couldn't hold my head up and my stomach was hurting. I was back asleep before I could count to 10. On the bright side the doctor called me this afternoon and said the test where inconclusive and he could not say if was or was not endometriosis. Said if it was then I should start to feel better and as long as I stay on bc it usually doesn't get any worse. Thanks everyone for all the thoughts and prayers!!

God's Got It Under Control!

Well I officially am a bad blogger! I really have no excuse except that I am busy?! Ha yeah right..

I have done a lot of thinking over the past week and have now decided that I absolutely HATE hate birth control. Reason being?? I feel like a crazy person when I am on it! I have been on and off birth control since getting married. I was getting really bad migraine headaches so Will and I finally decided that it wasn't worth it since my headaches would make living almost impossible. All good right...wrong. Somewhere among all the changing of pills trying to find one that worked I got pregnant in July! Ekkk! So excited! Then I had a miscarriage (which by the way people, REALLY sucked! Anyways..ever since then I have been having really bad cramping. We finally went to the doctor the end of Dec. (yeah I'm one of those nurses who is a bad patient and has to be forced to go to the doc) After a million questions he think that I may have Endometriosis. Hard to describe but pretty much it cause scar like tissue to build up on your female parts. So my OBGYN decided BC is going to be the best thing for me at this time...it suppose to help with all the cramping and pain. So BACK to the above statement on why I HATE birth control! I am SO moody!! I cry at the drop of a hat ( I usually am never like that) I cry at everything. Oh and the cramping and pain!??! yeah its still there... Lately I have been especially moody when it comes to the subject of: Babies... Mainly I think its because I love kids and I really want my own one day! I think some of my problem comes from the fact that I have NO idea what is going on with my body. If I do have endometriosis it can cause infertility. We are suppose to be going back to the OBGYN in the middle of Feb. so hopefully then we will find out what is going on. Its just frustrating sometimes when it seems babies are everywhere & it seems like everyone I know is pregnant. I have to keep telling my self that God has a perfect plan and he knows what he is doing, but its still hard sometimes. I have decided through all this that my husband is the most thoughtful man ever! He was so sweet listening to me (when I finally decided to talk to him about my feelings) I feel like he understands my feelings! He great! Very supportive! I am SO blessed!! So my plans for the week is to try and remember that "God's got it all under control and I don't have to worry about a thing!

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand~Philippians 4:6-7~

My First Blog

Okay so I'm not really sure about this whole blogger thing but I have decided to give it a try! Although I am sure that no one is really going to care to here about the ramblings of a "Mississippi Gal" but here I go:

I stayed home today because I wasn't feeling good. Sore throat, stuffy nose--the CRUDD! I didn't sleep good last night either so I didn't figure I would do any good at work. Today I have in fact found out that there is ABSOLUTELY nothing on TV during the day, although come to think about it there is usually never anything on any other time either. I was feeling better this afternoon so I decided to scrapbook for a bit, something I like to do but only get it out and actually do it once every few months. I usually use up all my creativeness in one sitting and have to wait that long for my creativeness to re-charge. So after an few hours (and all of my creativeness was gone) I started thinking about last week. It was a really hard week for me. I had one of my patients to pass away. It was one of the hardest ones I think that I have ever experienced. I don't think that I have ever been so effected by one. (For those of you who don't know I am nurse and I work for a Home Hospice Agency) Anyway my day went something like this: I woke up and went to work like any other day, I had been dreading this for some reason and really didn't want to go in but I did. I got to work and started getting all my paper work ready for my day and one of our other nurses came up to me and said she had a call the previous night on one of my soon to be pts. Okay, before I say this next part let me first say I had never met this person in my life! Anyway she said she was talking to the patients wife and she had asked if Jane Nurse (names not real :-) ) if she was going to be their nurse and she told them that it was going to be me. The wife then went on to ask if I had black hair and Jane Nurse said "Yes! Do you know her" to which the wife responds, "No but my husband does. He said the other night he had a dream that he saw a tall, thin girl with black (or dark hair) wearing red and a white jacket standing at the head of his bed." Okay can I just say after Jane Nurse told me all of this I was REALLY freaked because I was wearing: Red scrubs and a white jacket. And for those of you who don't know me I am tall and have dark hair. This man who I didn't know and had never met had just described me. WOW freaky! So from the moment I walked into this persons house and met this man's wife emotions where running high. I started continuous care so I could be with family. This lady, who's husband was dying needed me...needed someone to tell her everything was going to be okay. As the day went on and I got this man comfortable and resting I began talking to his wife who went on to tell me what a fine man he had been. He was a very Christian man for what his wife said. They had been married for 35+ years and he had been in the military for many years. He had just been diagnosed with cancer in May and now he was about to die. I comforted her best I knew how. This was the kind of family that from the moment you began talking to this family and ALL the relatives (sisters, in-laws, daughters, grandkids etc) you felt like you knew them, like you where apart of the family. My patient passed away at 4:15 that afternoon with me standing at the head of his bed and his wife holding his hand... It was horrible. The absolute worst death I have ever experienced in my life. The whole family was in such turmoil about this man dying. As I attempted to comfort all the family of this sweet man I began to think about how precious life is and how blessed we are to have every minute that we do. After 3 more hours (waiting for the family to say goodbye, funeral home and coroner to come) His wife came up to me and asked me if I had heard the story of her husband "seeing" me. I told her yes and how sorry I was...She told me that she was so thankful that I had been with them during this time of loss and that God knew just what he was doing when he chose me to be his nurse. Depressing as this might all seem, I am and always will be so glad that I went to work that day and that God was able to use me to minister to this family who was in so much pain. It reminded me that God has a perfect plan for everything and he knows just what he is doing when he puts you in certain places. Okay y'all I won't depress you anymore!! :-) I promise every day isn't like that!! Some days little old people beat me up!! haha I just thought it was a neat story. Something I doubt I will ever forget!! Bye for now from a " Mississippi Gal"