Hola all,
I've decided to continue blogging, and close out my facebook. So for all you friends out there, I haven't forgotten about you, just don't see a need for a facebook anymore.
Life recently has been a venture! My job is so awesome I feel super blessed every time I go to work. Just to update everyone, I'm working at a rehab clinic in Fort Collins Colorado as a certified nursing assistant. I wake up at 4:30am everyday, do a little yoga, shower, chai tea, then hop on my bike and forge 4 miles through the starry night to the clinic.
When I arrive I change from biking clothes to scrubs, clock in, and try to defrost as a collect my report sheet, and get debriefed on each patient. My day starts at 6am, waking people up, helping them get dressed, go to the bathroom, take their vital signs, and take them to breakfast. It's really stressful in the mornings before breakfast time 8am, because is their not on time, the kitchen staff gets mad because the food gets cold, the nurse can't start passing meds, and the activities can't start without any people. So everything hinges on me and the other CNA's getting people ready before 8am. After that we start making beds, chart ADL's, vitals, and moods and behaviors. From 11am to 2pm I am usually hauling butt running here and there answering "call lights," various requests from...."I need to go to the bathroom," to "I need ice water," to "I need 2 narco," to "Can you hand me my tv remote, push me down to Lunch, remove my leg wraps, don my ted hose?"
By the time the day is over I have time to do one more charting venture called DARTS, which is basically how the company gets reimbursed for all that we do.
I give report over the whole day to the next CNA coming on at 2pm, then take out the trash, then bike back home.
I think what I love about my job is the residents....Their honest and personalities. This one guy who had problems falling asleep looked me in the eye and said with a restless jaw, "I am SO tired, I could SPIT!" This other lady with dementia told me, "I'm in pieces, can you put me back together again?" Ha!
I also love working in a medical environment which means there's lots of pressure. You have to preform or else- you're out. I think I had that training when I was working at the equine hospital. Wow! I am so realizing how much that job taught me- how cool it was to see all those surgries and handle horses. I loved working at the equine hospital but love working with people too. Hopefully I can find something that is a happy mix between all the things I love to do.
I know God is the God of my past and future- he has it all under control, and I just have to trust and let him lead.
This weekend I have off work, so yesterday I woke up around 10am, and went for a run in the snowy mts. The sun was out and the snow was slushy, just enough for traction with my tennis shoes. The birds were singing, and clouds were white and fluffy. A cold wind started to blow just as I ran back to the house, and it started to snow. I showered and made some hot tea, read, talked with Raquel my friend, and played with her dog Molly.
We had such a relaxing night and stayed up talking about CNA stuff. She is also a nursing assistant, and it's so much fun talking with her about our jobs because she understands what I'm going through. We make jokes, and cook food, and laugh, and laugh and laugh! God has blessed me tremendously! He is so faithful!
It has snowed about 3 feet in the past week here! I biked to the library, and saw this guy trudging across campus on cross country skis. I cheered, and thought about my friend Acacia who's going to be going to school up here next year. Man... before I moved up here I should have thought about the SNOW issue. Ha! It makes getting around on a bike tough. Thank goodness the main road are clear for a bike- yet still.... My friend suggested that I invest in some skis! Ha! Seriously? I could just see myself with grocery bags in my hand waddling in the snow with my skis strapped to my feet, and apples flying all over the ground. Oh my goodness! I'm kind of re thinking this whole "move to Colorado forever" thing... Hawaii, or California would have been much warmer. :P
Regardless of the cold, I love the mountains, the culture, the people, the biker friendly environment, the sports, the nature and just pure bliss of living here in Colorado. Pretty much the bomb.
As the snowflakes fall, so do the memories of my travels on to the my mental ground. I think of all the things I've done and compare them to what I'm doing now- then question myself, asking myself why I no longer have a life. Everyone around me is like, "what are you going to do when you turn 21?! Big day right?" Well, it's like I've experienced a whole new level of cool, and doing what everyone my age considers cool, isn't even on the cool gage for me. Like going to a bar won't float my boat. Yet right now, I'm not even looking for the next big thing....
I've come to a conclusion in my head, that sometimes there's seasons of pulling the plow, so you can prepare for the next season of planting your garden, and then next watch your garden grow into something beautiful.....taste the fruit of prosperity. Right now I'm learning perseverance, endurance, perspective, and strengthening my muscles for the next season of life....
When Saul was converted he spent 2 years of preparing for the next season of his life as Paul. Everyone has times where they have to buckle down, and now is my time.
Yet the harder I work, it makes the time of rest taste sweet. Contemplations of mental chew taste sweet, as I sip on chai and watch the flakes fall.
Love always.
I've decided to continue blogging, and close out my facebook. So for all you friends out there, I haven't forgotten about you, just don't see a need for a facebook anymore.
Life recently has been a venture! My job is so awesome I feel super blessed every time I go to work. Just to update everyone, I'm working at a rehab clinic in Fort Collins Colorado as a certified nursing assistant. I wake up at 4:30am everyday, do a little yoga, shower, chai tea, then hop on my bike and forge 4 miles through the starry night to the clinic.
When I arrive I change from biking clothes to scrubs, clock in, and try to defrost as a collect my report sheet, and get debriefed on each patient. My day starts at 6am, waking people up, helping them get dressed, go to the bathroom, take their vital signs, and take them to breakfast. It's really stressful in the mornings before breakfast time 8am, because is their not on time, the kitchen staff gets mad because the food gets cold, the nurse can't start passing meds, and the activities can't start without any people. So everything hinges on me and the other CNA's getting people ready before 8am. After that we start making beds, chart ADL's, vitals, and moods and behaviors. From 11am to 2pm I am usually hauling butt running here and there answering "call lights," various requests from...."I need to go to the bathroom," to "I need ice water," to "I need 2 narco," to "Can you hand me my tv remote, push me down to Lunch, remove my leg wraps, don my ted hose?"
By the time the day is over I have time to do one more charting venture called DARTS, which is basically how the company gets reimbursed for all that we do.
I give report over the whole day to the next CNA coming on at 2pm, then take out the trash, then bike back home.
I think what I love about my job is the residents....Their honest and personalities. This one guy who had problems falling asleep looked me in the eye and said with a restless jaw, "I am SO tired, I could SPIT!" This other lady with dementia told me, "I'm in pieces, can you put me back together again?" Ha!
I also love working in a medical environment which means there's lots of pressure. You have to preform or else- you're out. I think I had that training when I was working at the equine hospital. Wow! I am so realizing how much that job taught me- how cool it was to see all those surgries and handle horses. I loved working at the equine hospital but love working with people too. Hopefully I can find something that is a happy mix between all the things I love to do.
I know God is the God of my past and future- he has it all under control, and I just have to trust and let him lead.
This weekend I have off work, so yesterday I woke up around 10am, and went for a run in the snowy mts. The sun was out and the snow was slushy, just enough for traction with my tennis shoes. The birds were singing, and clouds were white and fluffy. A cold wind started to blow just as I ran back to the house, and it started to snow. I showered and made some hot tea, read, talked with Raquel my friend, and played with her dog Molly.
We had such a relaxing night and stayed up talking about CNA stuff. She is also a nursing assistant, and it's so much fun talking with her about our jobs because she understands what I'm going through. We make jokes, and cook food, and laugh, and laugh and laugh! God has blessed me tremendously! He is so faithful!
It has snowed about 3 feet in the past week here! I biked to the library, and saw this guy trudging across campus on cross country skis. I cheered, and thought about my friend Acacia who's going to be going to school up here next year. Man... before I moved up here I should have thought about the SNOW issue. Ha! It makes getting around on a bike tough. Thank goodness the main road are clear for a bike- yet still.... My friend suggested that I invest in some skis! Ha! Seriously? I could just see myself with grocery bags in my hand waddling in the snow with my skis strapped to my feet, and apples flying all over the ground. Oh my goodness! I'm kind of re thinking this whole "move to Colorado forever" thing... Hawaii, or California would have been much warmer. :P
Regardless of the cold, I love the mountains, the culture, the people, the biker friendly environment, the sports, the nature and just pure bliss of living here in Colorado. Pretty much the bomb.
As the snowflakes fall, so do the memories of my travels on to the my mental ground. I think of all the things I've done and compare them to what I'm doing now- then question myself, asking myself why I no longer have a life. Everyone around me is like, "what are you going to do when you turn 21?! Big day right?" Well, it's like I've experienced a whole new level of cool, and doing what everyone my age considers cool, isn't even on the cool gage for me. Like going to a bar won't float my boat. Yet right now, I'm not even looking for the next big thing....
I've come to a conclusion in my head, that sometimes there's seasons of pulling the plow, so you can prepare for the next season of planting your garden, and then next watch your garden grow into something beautiful.....taste the fruit of prosperity. Right now I'm learning perseverance, endurance, perspective, and strengthening my muscles for the next season of life....
When Saul was converted he spent 2 years of preparing for the next season of his life as Paul. Everyone has times where they have to buckle down, and now is my time.
Yet the harder I work, it makes the time of rest taste sweet. Contemplations of mental chew taste sweet, as I sip on chai and watch the flakes fall.
Love always.
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