Today I had my assessment class, and I don't think I did anything until this class. I think I slept until this class. So I probably got up and left around noon.
I got to my class at 1 pm and this was the assessment clinical, so the army lady is the teacher. There was also a new teacher named Mrs. Rigdon, who was older, like in her 70s. She said "Like James?" when I told her my name was Bronson. Not sure who James Bronson is, but she was nice, she taught the first bit. We were going over musculoskeletal assessment. We had to be paired up with someone we aren't usually with to practice, so Noelle and I paired up. This assessment was pretty easy, it's just testing movement of body parts. Then we watched army lady do an assessment on CJ. Then after class CJ asked if I could be his patient for his mini ROS video, so I said sure and he did that. It took him two takes while somehow mine took over forty, but he did forget to ask my pain level. And I forgot to tell him. Sorry. But he did a lot of stuff I didn't do, like check the popliteal pulse. But he didn't check the brachial pulse. So ours were probably about the same. Then I left and walked through the rain to my car, because it was still raining.
After class I got a free cheeseburger from McDonald's and went to Nana's. I just played Fortnite here for a bit and then went home, because apparently my mom was making hashbrown casserole and she had rejected going to Top of the Marq so that she could practice my skills with me.
So I got home and we ate. She made this stir-fry that she thought was really spicy, I didn't think it was too bad, and then the hashbrown casserole. So that was a good meal. My mom got to see my teeth for the first time, and then we went to practicing.
It is actually so draining practicing with her. It's thorough and I usually memorize it pretty good, but it's a lot. I did the tracheostomy skills first, and she got out that one giraffe stuffed animal Janell used to have, and she made that my patient, with a homemade trach. So that was something. Then we did Foley catheter and that was also something. We didn't even get to wound dressing and we'd been doing this for three hours. I also missed a TKE social with Gamma Phi tonight, but this really was more important.
After practicing, she went to bed, and I didn't really practice anymore. I watched the new Slushy Noobz video, which was actually awesome. The mall video. Then I watched the new Claire Drake video, then I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and then I took a shower and watched some Always Sunny, the Psycho Pete and Charlie Work episodes. By this time it was past 4 am so I went to sleep.
Today, not much happened. 3/10.
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