Anniversary & Hershey

Today is our 2 year anniversary in MS. The girls thought we should hold a memorial dinner instead of a celebration dinner, but I made dinner for the 3rd night in a row!
We are finally settling in here in MS. We hung pictures this past weekend. ( see picture below)We are finally making friends. I have a wonderful group of people in my nursing class & we are sticking together. I think we realize that unlike our families we can empathize, with each other b/c we are all in the same boat! I can see us already becoming a tight knit family with 25 ladies and 5 men.

Tonight we worked on this project for EM's 4th grade class.

She did a report on Milton Hershey & along with that we were to make a pumpkin that looks like the person in the report. We wanted to do Michael Ph..elps but we had to have a book to refer to and there have not been any written about his life/career yet! We were going to put KT's swim cap & goggles, and make some gold medals for the pumpkin..oh well. I'm going to go to the store tomorrow & buy a bag of kisses for her to take to her classmates.

I have had a pretty easy week, and realized that my vacation from nursing school has turned into a decorate, clean and catch up on house work time. I have really enjoyed my time with my family this week too!

Student nurse Hammond..It feels real now

Now that I have actually had some "patients", and given some flu shots it feels real. It's not just learning about being a nurse or poking manequins.
I forgot to count how many flu shots I gave... but I'm guessing about 10.
I was so nervous! More than anyone else. I procrastinated getting started. Everyone else had given 3 or 4 before I got started, and my first little guy was so cute! He had parkinson's, so he requested his "non shaky" arm to receive his shot, and held his sleeve for me with this "shaky" hand so maybe it was difficult for him to tell that I was shaky too! It got much easier as I finished with each one. I asked each of them when I was done if that was ok, and all of them said "I didn't even feel it" so YAY!! I have definitely enjoyed a relaxing weekend with no studying.

Well I knew it would happen...

I knew I would neglect my blog at some point during this crazy semester.
Here is just a quick update:
You saw that KT qualified for state YAY!
Em made the honor roll for this 9 weeks YAY!
Honey...well he's the same..wonderful YAY!
Me...I have been studying ALOT! And it seems to be paying off! I have a 85 average...YAY!!!
We are down to 30 people in our program! From 65!
Monday was test 5 and we had 2 check offs this week.
I made a 84.37 on the test. Tomorrow is considered mid-term and we had to have an 80 average before mid-term or we were cut from the program. Everyone knew what they had to make on Monday's test to stay in the program...It was a TOUGH day! I think we lost 14 people Monday! Then we had asepsis/wound check offs Tues. which is what the test was on on Monday. so no problem there but Wed we had Physical assessment check offs and we hadn't even looked at that stuff for 3 weeks since we took the test on it. We've been studying for the other tests we've had. I passed both check offs!!!
Check offs are pass/fail and you only get 2 chances to pass them if you don't pass either time you are out of the program!!!
I don't think anyone failed either check off this week. Whew! I don't think my emotions could take loosing anymore people right now!
I get to go to a nursing home tomorrow and give flu shots!!! A first for me! I'm PETRIFIED!
We also had a drug calculations test 2 weeks ago and this is also pass/fail, and you get 30 minutes. The trick is it's 10 questions and you have to make a 90 to be considered passing. I made an 80! I missed 2 for very stupid mistakes. Well our make-up for that is Monday. We had "remediation" today for the drug calc. and I made a 90 only missed 1 on the "pre-test". They said if we know this test backwards and forwards we should defitiely pass and should make a 100!
So with all that said I have decided to not study this weekend. Well maybe a little SUnday night, but I won't know what to do with a whole weekend with my family, and not traveling to TX.
The MS state fair is in town so we might do that!
Well, I huess that's all for now. I'll try to post and tell you how my flu shot experience goes!

Love ya'll,