I V N E 1 or M E D C M O M

If I could pic out a license plate this is what it would say.... at least for today. Yay the semester ends this week. Technically I am done. I am going on Tuesday to take my National Registry skills test for the Intermediate level. It entails four skill stations 1- the insertion of a Combitube (a tube placed down your throat to secure your airway), 2- Pt assesments- medical , and trauma, 3-a random skill like spinal immobilization on a long board, treating for shock or placing a device called a "Sager" on your leg to immobilize a femur fracture , with the 4th station I.V.'s. I have been practicing these skills for a couple of months now and I feel like I'm ready. YAY!!
I took my final last week and did well. Jeff gave me a blessing the morning of and I am so grateful for that. It helped calm my nerves. Thanks honey! I lost my first patient during a hospital clinic. A 40 something year old who lived in a long term care facility and went into cardiac arrest. The Paramedics brought him in unconscious. The hospital did all they could but was unable to successfully bring him back. I was right there doing chest compressions switching off with a classmate doing the BVM-bag mask device, ventilating him (breathing for him). The part that bothered me the most was that no family was there for him. I felt very humbled and blessed to be there with him as he passed.
Jarrin and Jaliece are happy and healthy...well at least healthy. Jarrin is not happy and very grounded because he left our yard to visit a new friends home in the nieghborhood just behind ours. It's far enough away that it completely freaked us out!! We were hangin out in the yard with our nieghbors when we noticed that Jarrin was gone..a few minutes earlier I had overheard a conversation between him and his new friend talking about seeing his home. I went into the house and when I came back...sure enough Jarrin had hopped on his bike and went to see this friends home. He was no where in sight. I grabbed my bike to hopefully catch up with them but couldn't find them. So we waited n waited and finally an hour later......Jarrin comes strolling down the street with his new friend. >( Ya....not so happy. I had to explain that if he must ask for permission to cross the street to visit a friend then surely he must ask for permission to leave the nieghborhood and then go into an umfamiliar nieghborhood with an unfamiliar home. He's ok and we both feel like he learned from this serious mistake.
I swear these experiences take a couple seconds off the end of my life!
The kids are carefully making out their Christmas lists. Jarrin is a little nervous with this recent mistake that Santa won't come through. This is good leverage right....lol!!! Jeff pulled a muscle in his back trying to surprise me with getting out the decorations from the garage. He still managed to accomplish the task and do the dishes! I appreciate all he does for our family!