LIfe in this my Colorado

So here is how things played out:

I married the man I met in my Jan 14, 2006 entry. Today is his 29th birthday.

I went back to school and became a nurse. I've been one for 3.5 years. There are good days and bad days but for the majority I like being a nurse. I love cancer pts, I love the geriatric, I love also love the psychiatrically geriatric as well.

My favorite memories of being a nurse:
1) I floated to the post op floor one night and I was teaching a patient how to prevent post-op complications like blood clots and pnemonia. I advised her to wear her compression devices, to walk often, and to use her incentive spirometer. She said it was broken. I said okay but let's try it one more time and instructed her on the correct way to use it. After the teaching was done she burst into tears and said this was the longest anyone had spent with her or talked with her since she'd been in the hospital.
2) The night I had a patient have a huge heart attack at 11pm. It was like I was meant to help save him. He didn't call me, I just wanted to check make sure he got back in bed okay and he was clutching his chest. I knew he was having a heart attack before the heart monitor tech called me. I activated the rapid response and rushed him to the cath lab for his 5 stents to be placed at midnight. He called me last summer to say thanks again, he's doing great.
3) Being with cancer patients as they move from denial to anger to acceptance. It's incredible to be a part of.
4) Random unhinged ppl and crazy situations I've been in that make me laugh in retrospect unendingly. The human condition is filled with crazy humor at times. Ppl who try to steal supplies from the ER and when they're told they can't take them, they say "the hell I can't, I paid for em;, the very deaf man who asked why he got a CT of his head and when I screamed it was b/c of confusion, he kept saying, "what? cancer?"; the ninety something woman who was confused from her uti and wouldn't believe me that she had only been in the hospital one day instead of three; and of course all the naked ppl trying to escape.


We moved to Colorado a couple of years ago. We have two beautiful dogs, no kids and no plans to make em. We just bought a beautiful house.

My life has not been without discord. I was diagnosed with diabetes, my mother with ovarian cancer, my father with primary biliary cirrosis advanced enough he is on the transplant list and is now on disability. My husband's grandfather died 2 years ago from complications of leukemia. My mother in law survived uterine cancer.

Life will always have discord and problems but I am home now and filled with love and gratitude for what God has given me.