2/5/25

Today I had my big clinical, and it was the last one. I also made sure that I would not be late to this one, like my Wednesday one. But this one was at 7 am, unlike my 1 pm Wednesday one. Anyways, I woke up earlier than my alarms and I got up at 4 am. But I couldn't fall back asleep, so I got up. It ended up being alright though, even though I only got 3.5 hours of sleep. I got up, instantly played a round of Fortnite, made an instant coffee in the microwave, watched some YouTube (Christmas PopularMMOs videos, very nostalgic), did some stretches in the living room to try and wake up a bit more, and then played some Roblox. And that was actually pretty fun, I played this Raising Cane's game, I don't know, this was just a good start to my morning. Then I drank a mini Alani and left to go to the Lutheran Home.

I got to the place and got out after sitting in my car for a bit listening to If We Make it Through December. I walked in on time, we went back to the conference room after meeting in the lobby, we turned in our goals, and then we got assigned our patients. I was still with Coryden, and we got assigned room 316, which were two old ladies. Everyone was at breakfast, so we helped with that first. I helped this one guy eat, he was pretty nice. It took forever though, I felt like his Froot Loops were never-ending. And then his sausage, bacon, and eggs. After that, I went to our room and introduced myself to one of the ladies, but she was trying to relax in bed. So I left and found Coryden, and then we ended up giving someone a shower. And not just anyone, we got to give the 110 year old a shower. And she was mostly independent. But that was kind of a weird experience to say the least. It was about what I expected, but it was just weird. But she didn't mind being bathed by two guys, so that's fine. We got all of that done, that probably took at least 45 minutes. Then we just kinda helped out around. We went to lunch at 10:45 or so, and that was just sitting in my car eating a beef stick and drinking another mini Alani.

little bathroom break

Coryden and I came back in after half an hour and checked back up on our people. I really don't know what else we did. Our ladies were either sleeping or didn't really want to be bothered. Coryden was kind of overstimulating me again. He kept going back into their room to check on one of them, and she'd tell him the same story about how her brother, sister-in-law, and nephew came to visit and they gave her a chocolate bar. I heard that story about four times. We helped with lunch some, Coryden was going crazy making water, and I ended up talking to Breanna a lot, like for an hour. But that was pretty nice, we talked about high school, nursing, just random stuff. We had a meeting in the break room for our little debrief conference, and we were probably in there for over an hour because everyone had to explain what all they did and if we met our goals. And we had to sign some papers and stuff. After that, we went back out and helped some more. Then they actually said we could leave early, it was like 2 pm at this point. One of the patients was having a dressing change and some people were staying to watch that, so I stayed too, and we watched that. It was actually pretty crazy. This lady had like, a whole slice of her abdomen off of her. Then I left after that. And I made sure to not back into any cars like I may have done a couple of weeks ago.

After that was done I guess I went home and I really don't remember what I did. Probably just watched YouTube and played games or something. But then we had to get ready because we were going to the Finch's for a little pre-Christmas get-together. Janell got home right before we left, so I went with her there. We didn't think she was going to be able to go because she was supposed to have a social thing with her sorority, but I guess that was cancelled.

So we went to Rach's and it was actually a fun little night. The only kids were Emma, Matthew, and Leah because I guess Micah was sick. And Leland wasn't there either, which honestly, I was fine with. He's a little much sometimes. Too nonchalant. But it was fun, we ate a good meal. My mom brought pulled pork, barbeque sauce, and buns so we had really good pulled pork sandwiches. There were also these quesadilla things that tasted kind of like Imo's Pizza, but they had beans and stuff in them. They were good. There were deviled eggs and salad stuff, but I of course had none of that. I did have sweet tea that wasn't very sweet, though. Then we just talked for a while, I talked to Molly, Carrie, Daniel, Rach, really everyone. I told them how I left TKE, told them about work, about clinical today, everything. The kids were crazy, they're all into 67. Even Emma. But anyways, after we talked for a while, Janell and I went outside with Leah, Matthew, and Emma and we threw a football around even though it was dark. They did find a light-up soccer ball that worked a bit better in the dark. I was putting all of my effort into kicking that ball around. Then we went back in and played Loaded Questions for a while, that was fun. One of the questions was "what is something impressive that you've made" and I said cranberry Christmas cake because I made that last week, and then my dad came in and said, "You made that!" Like dad, they were supposed to guess, and they never would've guessed that. So that was a thing. Then Janell left to go back to her dorm and I had to stay until my mom and dad decided to leave probably 45 minutes after Janell left.

Then we went home and didn't do much else. I tried watching Die Hard but didn't really get into it. I'll watch it later once break starts, because I do want to watch it.

So that was my day, it was actually pretty good. 7/10.