School

Nursing school...Nursing school is definitely the toughest thing I have ever experienced in my life. It is tough, fun, exciting, sad, enjoyable and crazy all wrapped in one. My life consists of "Study QID & PRN. Eat AM & HS. Sleep PRN." Med surg lecture is kicking my butt, as is pharmacotherapy. Med/surg clinical is not that bad, we get assigned one patient, get report about 645am, go in get vitals, assess the pt head to toe, do am care--bath, change sheets, etc. and do am medications if needed. We have a lovely care plan due two days after clinical and a huge comprehensive care plan due in april. Not looking forward to that at all!!!! Pharm...ohhh how I dislike pharm. In a sense it's interesting because we are learning the medications for different systems, how they work, side effects, nursing implications. It is just SO much in such a short time....

As intense and crazy school is I'm so lucky and fortunate to be taking part of it. I wouldn't change it for anything, I really feel I am destined to be a nurse. I don't know what speciality of nursing I want to persue but there is so many opportunities. I must say....I couldn't do this without my wonderful fiancee :-) He keeps my head up and encourages me to keep going when I just want to cry and have mental breakdowns. He shows me there is a light at the end of this tunnel and I am capable of doing it. I couldn't do it without him.

as promised...

In my first post of the year I hoped this year was going to be full of good things and be an amazing year. On Sunday February 21, 2010 Andrew and I got engaged. It was the absolute most perfect proposal I could ever dream of. I'm not sure anyone reads this blog..but I will tell you how it happened.

Saturday the 20th, Andrew texted me from work and asked if I wanted to go to a date night at the melting pot (a yummy fondue restaurant) tomorrow, of course I said sure. I was thinking it was a belated valentines day (we didn't do anything for v-day this year due to a med/surg exam and pharm exam that week). He wanted to make reservations for 630 so we could change at my cousin's and get ready at her house. We both worked on Sunday and then headed to my cousins. She did my hair and makeup, which is nothing out of the normal to make me think anything suspicious. When we arrived at the Melting Pot there was a dozen red roses on the table. I still didn't think anything of it. I asked Andrew if I could open the card, as I opened it I read "Will you marry me?" and I looked over and Andrew was on one knee next to me with a beautiful ring. I was shocked, cried and of course said YES!!

Here is the amazing ring:

The next question everyone asks is "did you pick a date". We want to wait until I graduate nursing school to get married, I will graduate December 2011 so a spring 2012 wedding is in the works :-) I am so lucky and can't wait for Andrew to officially be my Husband!!