8/24/26

Today was the first day of classes back at SEMO, and I was not too happy about it. I just wasn't ready for classes to start again, and I don't think I'd ever be ready. My first one today was at 9 AM, so I got up around 8 AM and got a shower and everything, and I left later than I should have. I got to SEMO and had to park at the very bottom of Normal St. and had to walk all the way up the hill.

So I got to class at about 9:03 AM, and the instructor, Dr. Moses, counted me tardy. Like, what? Instructors never care if you're there, much less showing up a few minutes late. But this lady apparently cares. Why does she? I'm not sure. If I'm not there, it should be my problem, not hers. But whatever. In that class we already got started taking notes, talking about central lines, PICCs, and sepsis. But yeah, Dr. Moses is a little more crazy than I'd hoped.

I had about an hour before the next class, so I drove to McDonald's and got a meal to eat. Then I sat in my car at Capaha Park and ate my burger, fries, and drank some sweet tea. I almost fell asleep there.

My next class was pediatrics at 1 PM. Dr. Burk was teaching this one, and it seemed very easy today. We were just talking about what to expect and everything. Dr. Burk is also a little crazy. She speaks like ChatGPT taught her how to talk. She kind of seems falsely nice, I don't know.

After that, I was done with classes, so I went to Frank's Hill and relaxed. I really don't remember what I did, I probably napped, ate, and watched YouTube or something. I left for work at around 5:40 PM.

I got to work at 6 PM, and Julia and Rylee were there. I think Rylee was up at med tele for the start, so I didn't see her for a bit, but I talked to Julia quite a bit. We just talked about the first day of classes and all sorts of stuff. Then Rylee found me when I had to go up to med tele and she joined us down in the CDU. Her and Julia kind of hit it off since they're both talkers. It was actually pretty busy at work still, too. But there was still enough time to talk, too. So work kind of ended up being the highlight of my day.

Then I went home and played Roblox with Alyssa until about 6 AM in the morning because I didn't have class tomorrow. So that was also fun, time goes by very fast when you're talking to people on Roblox.

So school was not fun, but Roblox and work were. 6/10 day.

8/21/26

I had work again today, so I got up at 11 AM, took a shower, did everything else, ate a slice of pizza, and left to go to work at noon.

Today it was me, Brendan, and Parker. It wasn't really too bad, there were little spurts where it was kind of busy. I had one discharge from med tele where I had to stop in the lobby because they had a bag of food for him because I think the patient was homeless. Then I had to take him to the ER parking lot because that's where his car was. I've never discharged someone directly to their car so that they could drive. But there was this whole ordeal when we got to his car because none of his oxygen tanks were working, and he was kind of rude, too. And his car was disgusting, like even if you're living in your car, you can clean out trash and moldy cups and things. But I shouldn't judge. Eventually they got some nurses out there to help, so I left that. There was one guy from neuro who I took down to MRI and they couldn't do it because he was moving around so much, so I took him right back. I had to work with a tech named Kaydence up there to get him all repositioned and that was a whole ordeal. There was another guy from the ER that I had later on, when I was almost done for the night, who wanted to go outside to get some things from his motorcycle and to smoke a cigarette. No one had ever asked if they could do that before to me, so I said sure and he went out there. Well he was out there for like, 10 minutes, and I was just standing in the ambulance part of the ER parking garage with a wheelchair. Finally he came back and he was with his girlfriend, and I was kind of scared, because I was thinking, what if he went out there and got a gun or some contraband or something to bring into the hospital. So I walked back into the ER through the main entrance because it had metal detectors and things, so that made me feel a bit better. So I felt kind of bad doing that whole thing.

Then I got off, got a sweet tea, went to Frank's Hill, made some ramen, took a shower, and played Roblox with Alyssa from England until almost 6 AM in the morning. So I didn't get a full night's rest at all.

Today was boring at work, but playing Roblox was fun that night. I also didn't have a good sandwich today. So it was like a 3/10 day.

8/20/26

So today I had work again, and it wasn't too great. Mainly because I decided to get drunk last night and play Roblox, and I kind of had a hangover for most of my shift today. But Roblox was really fun last night, I got a bunch of people to subscribe to my YouTube channel and made some friends.

Anyways, yeah I actually threw up at work in the bathroom. Then I took a Zofran and I was basically good for the rest of the day. Today it was me, Kaden, Parker, and Vanessa as the transporters. I also vlogged a little throughout the day for a work vlog thing I'm doing. Us transporters played a round of hangman in the CDU back room, so that was kind of fun. My word was sticky note. I don't think too much else happened that shift, just ordinary things. I stayed a little late because the last transport took a while. I ended up doing 20 something today.

Then I got a 32 oz sweet tea, went home, and ate a delicious chicken, bacon, ranch sandwich from Panera Bread that my mom had brought over there for me. I went to bed at around midnight, but woke up at 3 AM and couldn't fall back asleep until 7 AM when it was already light outside. So that was weird.

It was a 3/10 day today, nothing exciting happened, but I had a good sandwich.

8/12/26

Quick recap of the day. I woke up at Frank's Hill early because the sun was shining in my face again, but I fell back asleep until 11 AM or so. I took a shower and got ready, then went home. At home my dad wanted me to help give the dogs a bath, so we did that. We didn't give Opal one because her groomer said not to, so we're just going to take her back to the groomer soon. But I gave Chowder one and he gave Max one. It was probably not a good day to do that, because we gave them one in the creek, and it was pretty dried up because it hasn't rained in a while. My mom made a stir fry thing for supper with chicken, vegetables, and rice, so that was pretty good. Then I went to HealthPoint to workout and I had another pretty good workout there. While I was there, it started storming and there was this super loud thunder, but I didn't really know how bad it was until I left. It was a really weird storm because by the time I left, it wasn't really raining, but it was lightening like crazy, like every couple of seconds. And it was pretty hard to get home, because there were at least ten trees down that I almost ran into. The road was also flooded in some areas. But I did eventually get home. I had to turn around several times and take some backroads, but I made it, and luckily my power wasn't out or anything.

So that was the day. At least I got a good workout. 2.5/10 day.

8/11/26

I'm just going to quickly recap today because not much happened again. I was at home all morning, I went swimming for a couple of hours around noon, then I went to town because I was bored. I went to Walmart and bought a flower pot and a Lego Batman polybag, then picked up Popeyes because I had a gift card, and ate that at Arena Park. It was also really hot out today, so that wasn't too pleasant. After that I went to Frank's Hill. I also tried filming some of the day for a YouTube video, but I don't think it's going to turn out that great. My dad showed up to mow over there and I helped him load some things up into his truck, like the old toilet and vanity. I went and worked out again this evening, then I went back, watched Avenger's Infinity War and The Office, and went to bed.

So today was bad again, maybe a 2/10. There's just nothing to do.

8/10/26

Today I didn't do much again. I woke up around noon, went out to the pool and swam and laid in the sun for about an hour. Then I played piano, ate a leftover slice of pizza, drank some sweet tea, and did nothing. I really can't remember what I did all day. At around 4 PM, I got the Jeep out and had to move my dad's backhoe. Then I went to Trail of Tears with Opal and it was a nice little drive. I didn't bring a leash for her, so I couldn't really let her out for too long, but we sat down by the lake. Then I went home and ate a waffle and bacon that my mom had made. Then I went to HealthPoint and had a pretty hard workout for the first time in a while, and then met Janell afterwards at her house. She had been in St. Louis all day with Allison, and I met her to pick up the Raising Cane's meal I had her get me. Then I went to Frank's Hill to grab my retainer, and then I went home.

So today was boring once again and I feel like I didn't do anything. 3/10.

8/9/26

Today I woke up at 10:30 AM and took a shower and played some piano. My dad was at church and my mom was already over at Frank's Hill when I woke up.

Around noon I went over to Frank's Hill because I was going to meet my mom and sister and we were going to go to a yard sale thing, so we met and drove there together, but there was no one there, so I guess it wasn't really going on today or something. Then Janell convinced my mom to go to Olive Garden, so we went there to eat, and it was really good. I had two bowls of zuppa toscana soup, a breadstick and a half, and salmon and broccoli. Janell and my mom just got soup and salad. After that we went to Menard's for returns and a few things and then to Walmart for some more stuff for the house over there. I also talked to them some about Julia, which I'd never done before, but I was talking about work stuff and she came up.

We went back to Frank's Hill, got some stuff done, then they left and I left shortly after. At home, I really didn't do much. I played with the dogs some, took a nap, played piano, then watched Fargo that evening, which was a pretty good movie.

So that was my day, pretty boring for the most part. 3.5/10. The Olive Garden was the highlight.

8/8/26

Today was the last work day of my three day work week. I woke up to my mom coming into my home, which scared me because I happened to be sleeping naked. But luckily I was able to grab my robe in time and cover myself. Sleeping nude is just so much comfier to me than being confined in clothes. So I went up and took a shower, and when I came out of the shower, I also heard Jennifer, so I made sure to completely cover up before coming down. I guess she was there for a haircut, because that's what my mom was giving her out on the porch when I came down. Interesting. It was worth my mom coming over, though, because she brought me a coffee and made me a ham and cheese omelet to eat before work.

Work was pretty slow today. My first two were from Cardiac Pavilion and that was annoying because there was like, no one at Pavilion. So my first one was supposed to go to ultrasound, but I literally could not find out who that person's nurse was and there was no one around to ask. So I just postponed it. Then I didn't get a second request until 2:30 or something. And it was from Pavilion to CT scan, and that one request took almost an hour. It was because I had to wait for the guy's nurse to get done charting, then once we got down to CT, the Stephanie and Denise down there thought he should be getting a full tib-fib scan and not just ankle because the guy's whole left leg was swollen and hot. So that was probably a good call, but it took forever for them to contact the hospitalist. Then there were quite a few more from ER, and then I had a crazy one. It was a lady from 483 on neuro who was supposed to go down to MRI. Her nurse warned me about her and helped me get her into the wheelchair. She also gave her some Ativan through her IV right before we left, and she apparently had a Xanax earlier, too. But this lady was terrified of going into the MRI machine. So I tried to comfort her all the way down there and said things like, "Just close your eyes and pretend you're somewhere else. Then she tells Andrew the MRI guy that she can't do it and she swears her nurse didn't give her the medicine she was supposed to get, so I had to tell Andrew that she did in fact get it. But she wouldn't go, so I had to take her back to her room and she was crying the whole way. Then they tell her they'll have to do the MRI under anesthesia and she'll have to stay there another week before they can do that. Then she decides she wants to go back, so I take her all the way back down to MRI and we have to convince her some more, and finally she does it. Then I left and did a really annoying discharge from CPC, where this guy took forever in the bathroom, then had to leave and his wife took forever putting his clothes on. After literally 20 minutes waiting on them, I got him into the wheelchair and took him down to the lobby. Then his wife took forever to pull the car around, and this is what actually took forever: standing outside next to his car waiting to stand up. I don't even think he was catching his breath, he was just preparing himself for some reason to stand up, for like, 10 minutes. And I was just holding the wheelchair this whole time, and he was just making little small talk like, "Ahh, it feels nice out here." But it was like, 90 degrees, it was hot. So that whole thing had to of been the longest discharge I've done. Then I had to get the lady from MRI again and somehow she was even worse coming back from MRI. Like, she was mad at me. She told me not to touch her when I was trying to help her up and she told me not to talk to her. Like, okay. But then she was still asking me questions out in the hallway. For the last several hours, it was luckily a lot slower and I got some overdue Workday learning things done and practiced some CPR on some manikins. I sat behind the CDU nurse station and made some doodles, too. So that was that.

Then I drove home because my mom said she'd gotten Imo's Pizza earlier. My dad wanted to talk, but it kind of feels like a chore talking to him when I get home from work, because he always wants to know if I saw anyone he knew and stuff like that. Which I'm not even supposed to tell him. So I went downstairs kind of early because I was just tired, and I think that upset him. He's like, "That was a really good talk," in a sarcastic annoyed voice. Then I ate some pizza, played some piano, and then Olivia FaceTimed me, but I'm pretty sure she was drunk. We just reminised a bit and talked about the old days for a bit. But it wasn't really that fun of a call, I kind of wanted to hang up. I also went up to make some cheese curds in the air fryer and my dad heard me, but he didn't seem too mad. So it was like, 3:30 AM by the time I went to bed.

So today was not a good work day. Everything just took so long and was so annoying. Honestly 1/10 day.

8/7/26

Today was another day at work, and I didn't do anything before work except get up, take a shower, get ready, and leave, so it was fully a work day.

I got to work a little early around noon and it was really busy for the first several hours. The transporters here were me, Brendon, Madi, Parker, and later Julia. I don't know where she came from because she wasn't on the schedule, but she made the evening a lot more fun. I had to move several beds with Brendon at the beginning. I feel like a lot were from neurophysiology, which is weird. I also had to move several with Parker, and he was kind of annoying me today. I just had to do so many with him, and for some reason he puts on this southern accent which I'm 90 percent sure is fake. People will ask him where he's from and he'll say, "I'm just here from Cape." Like, Cape does not have a southern accent. He just does little things that kind of annoy me. He loves making phone calls. He'll call down to MRI and ask if it's fine that the patient is coming down with continuous bladder irrigation, and call CT scan to tell them we're on the way. Like, that's all unnecessary, but you do you. Then Julia got there at 4 PM or something, and we ended up talking a lot today. She came with me to get someone from the birthing center, and also to get this old lady from neuro to take down to CT. That lady was a little cuckoo, she was swearing like a sailor, but in a kidding way, talking about her 16 cats, and just talking nonstop all the way to and from CT scan. We also had a race to see who could take our ER patients to their rooms the fastest. She beat me, but her patient was in a wheelchair and going to CPC or something, while mine was in a stretcher and going to med tele (way further away), so it wasn't exactly fair. We sat behind the CDU nurse station on the time off and talked about all sorts of stuff. Lots of horse talk because she's a horse girl. Then we followed each other on Letterboxd, and she left at 8 PM. My shift was pretty easy after that because it seemed to slow down a lot. Julia also followed me on Instagram at around 9 or so, which is nice because I was planning on following her. There were a bunch of ER to neuro patients towards the end, so that kept me busy until I left at 10:30 PM.

Then I went to Frank's Hill, ate the empanadas that my mom left in the fridge for me, and watched The Office. I also made some broccoli and green beans in a skillet because I'm trying to eat healthier. I got a shower, said a prayer, took some ZzzQuil, brushed my teeth, put my retainers in, and went to bed earlier at 1:30 AM tonight while listening to a looped YouTube video of a Somewhere in Time piano arrangement.

So today was pretty good as far as work days go. 7/10.

8/6/26

Today I had work again, so I got up at 10 AM, got ready, drank a coffee that my mom made for me, and left at 11:30 AM.

There was a big change at the hospital since I'd last been there. The main hallway between Elevator D and the med tele unit was closed down for construction. So that changed a lot of the routes that we had to take, and it was really annoying. The transporters today were me, Brayden, Vanessa, and Briley. So not a great roster. But I talked to Brayden some since he was here until 6:30 PM. It was really busy today until about 7:30 PM or so. I had to run a lot of samples to the laboratory and take the long way, had to push some beds solo, stuff like that. For one, I waited like forty-five minutes at MRI and then had to take the patient straight to CT afterwards, so that was a long one. Nothing really extraordinary happened today. I actually played Papa's Cluckeria for like, hours today. Every free chance I had. I bought that game for my phone this morning before work, and it is pretty addicting. I miss playing the Papa's games. Actually, there was an interesting patient that I got after I wrote that above. There was a guy from room 20 down in the ER who was going through some kind of religious psychosis or something. A caregiver guy had to come with me. The patient wouldn't let me remove the leads off of his chest, he was reading from a Bible all the way up to his room, kept talking to himself, and would only do something if you said, "Jesus would want you to do this," or something. So that was interesting. By the end of the day, I think I had 33 requests done and 40 flights of stairs.

I went to Frank's Hill, ate the Chick-fil-A that my mom left for me over here (thanks mom), also made some mac and cheese because I was still hungry, watched The Office, played more Cluckeria, took a shower, listened to music, and went to bed at 3 AM.

Today was a boring, kind of long day at work, with no fun people to talk to. 3/10.