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.

8/5/26

Today was a very boring day for me. I woke up really early because I slept in my new bedroom at Frank's Hill and there aren't curtains in that room yet, so the sun woke me up. But I still fell back asleep until around noon, when Janell called me. She wanted me to go to El Kolibri, where she works, to get buy some empanadas that she thought I'd like. So I got ready and went there.

I got to El Kolibri and she was talking to some Christian group who were promoting an addict recovery group thing, but once they left, she got me two of the empanadas. She sat down with me to eat, since they weren't busy at all in there. They were chicken curry empanadas and they actually were pretty good. I was going to leave after that, but my mom called Janell and said she was also coming in. So I stayed to talk to my mom some, too. Maggie was downstairs working so my mom talked to her some before we left. She was going over to Frank's Hill to work on the bathtub and paint and whatnot, so I went back over there too.

Over there I really didn't help that much. I always feel lazy when we're over there working. If I'm by myself, I'm more productive. I don't know how that works. So I did a whole lot of nothing. She left at probably around 5 PM and I took a nap until 7 PM before leaving to go home, too.

At home I brushed the dogs out some, got a haircut from my mom, took a shower, made some ramen, watched The Office and The Walking Dead, and went to bed.

So today was horribly boring and I felt very unproductive and that I wasted one of my limited days of free summertime. 2/10.

8/4/26

Today I didn't do much. I am really scared of school starting back up. It's kind of bringing me back to reality now that it's August and we start in 20 days. I'm not even completely caught up on my clinical stuff yet, but I'm better than I was. I guess CastleBranch is updated now even though the only thing I updated was my T-Spot test. And I basically have the My Clinical Exchange and St. Francis stuff done. I just don't want to start going to clinicals and studying for exams and all that. Ugh...

So I haven't done anything fun in August yet. Today I woke up kinda early, some time around 8 AM, but didn't really do much. I stayed in the basement until like, noon at least, just playing piano, watching YouTube, and losing in Fortnite. Last night I was playing Roblox with Olivia and Walmart Kim K and drinking some vodka mixed with a Poppi drink. That was interesting.

I left at around 2 PM to bring Troy's old bed back over to Frank's Hill because there's no beds in the bedrooms over there. So we loaded that up and drove separately over there. My dad really wanted me to go vote because it was the election day for county commissioner and some tax amendments and stuff, and I almost did, only because he really wanted me to, but I didn't. Mainly because I really don't care about any of that or even know what it is, but also because my dad was running late and wanted to make it to Frank's Hill. So we went there and unloaded the bed.

Then I was over at the house for a while and I started putting the bed frame together. I also ate some food, watched several episodes of The Office, and watched some YouTube.

Then I did do something kinda fun. I went to watch the new Spider-Man movie with my sister. We got the tickets a couple of days ago because this movie is really popular and there were hardly any decent seats left. So the only time we could get was 10:20 PM. So I met her there and we saw Matthew Hitt, Jonathon Phipher, and Anthony Kerns from Saxony there. Then I ran into Indian Nathan and talked to him for a bit at the concessions. It was a bit awkward. We got free popcorn since it was Tuesday and Janell also got a slushy and some French fries. The actual movie was pretty good. I definitely liked No Way Home better, but this one was good. The highlights were an actual good Hulk again, the fight against The Hand ninjas, and the swinging scenes. Peter's mutations were cool, too. We stayed for the post-credit scene, which was not worth it, and then on the way out, I am pretty sure I saw Kyle Whitlow from TKE.

After the movie, it was past 1 AM, so I went to Frank's Hill and smoked part of a cigar while listening to music and looking at the stars. Then I took a shower, watched another couple episodes of The Office and went to bed in my new bed.

So today was alright just for the movie. 4.5/10.

7/30/26

Today was another first day of my three day work week. I actually got up extra early today (around 10 AM) because I drove home from Frank's Hill to get my white leather shoes, my retainers, and a Witch's Brew Alani. I really only went for the shoes, because any other shoes squeak and just don't feel right at work. And I pet Chowder of course. Then I went back to Frank's Hill house, took a shower, got dressed and ready, and went to work at noon.

There were quite a few transporters here today, it was me, Julia, Brendan, and Vanessa, and there was a steady amount of transports throughout the day. Julia was going on all day about me hitting the water fountain, even though that happened like, a month ago. And she was telling other people too. But we talked a lot today. Brendan left at like 2, and I think Vanessa left at 3, and she had me put her phone up. Like girl, you couldn't walk up to house supe and do that yourself? Just kidding, I didn't mind. My mom got me some protein peanut butter balls and a Mountain (American) Dew from the doctor's lounge because she also worked today, so thanks mom. Julia left at 4:30, right when I needed her, because I had a bed. So I had to move that by myself. Then a little after moving that bed, I was back up on surgical, and I saw the strangest thing. This guy in room 512 was in the doorway to his room, on his hands and knees, and I thought he was stretching or something, I don't know. I did a triple take, before going over to him and seeing what was going on. There were no workers or anything around, either, and his gown was completely open in the back. So I tied his gown and started asking him all these questions, like why he was there, if he could use a walker, blah, blah, blah. Apparently, no one had been coming to his room, and he wanted to ask someone when he could get out of this place, and he'd crawled from his bed to this doorway. I brought a walker over and tried to get him to stand, but his gown buttons just all popped off in this very weird, comedic, but unsettling way. Then he was just completely exposed. Maybe I tied the back tie too tight and that caused that to happen, I don't know. But I couldn't get him up, so I finally went and got some people, and like, 10 nurses and techs came and started freaking out. Then we got him up and moved over with them. And I went up there about half and hour later and he was gone. I'm guessing they moved him to neuro. They were really getting onto his nurse because I guess his bed alarm wasn't set even though she swears it was. The rest of the evening and night was steady and still kind of busy. I had 31 done by the end of the shift and 49 flights of stairs climbed and over 17,000 steps. So at least I got a workout.

I got home late because I got off a bit late. I also got a sweet tea because I felt I deserved one, and it was really good. Then I climbed my stairs a bit until I got to 50 flights climbed. Then I watched The Office, made some delicious ramen, watched some YouTube, took a shower, sat out on my porch at 2 AM listening to faint music from inside until an armadillo came around the corner of my house and scared the shit out of me, and brushed my teeth and went to sleep in my recliner.

So today was alright, at least work was fun for the first part. And just getting up and doing something before work made today feel more productive rather than just working all day. 6/10.

7/25/26

Today I had work so I didn't do really anything that morning except put off getting up until 11 o'clock, taking a shower, brushing my teeth, doing my twenty push-ups, and leaving.

Work was alright. Mark and Brayden were there at first. Nothing really crazy happened. I had a guy from neuro who kept talking about Ford Groves for some reason. I had to take him to MRI. I had to bring a guy in a bariatric bed back from ultrasound by myself. That really wasn't too bad though, but the steer mode was making a weird squeaking noise. Towards the end, I didn't have any from about 6:30 to 9:30, so I put in a couple of fake ones, like wheelchair requests, so it didn't look like I was doing nothing. I watched an episode of The Walking Dead because I kind of miss that era when I was into that. I had to bring a bigger guy up to neuro from the ER, and he was really nice. He told me thanks and that I probably wasn't thanked enough.

After work I drove home, talked to my dad some, ate two big bowls of chicken pot pie, tried finishing Aliens, and went to sleep.

So today was work and it was boring. 3/10.

7/23/26

Today was the start of my three day streak of working. So I got up a little after 11 AM, took a shower, got ready, brushed my teeth, all of that. And I was out the door by 11:40. I got a sweet tea from Kidd's and was at work right at noon.

Work was pretty good today. There were a lot of transporters, maybe too many. There was Julia, Parker, Brendan, and me. Parker was actually really annoying today, just because he just does things weird and I feel like he blames me for stuff that isn't really my fault. Like we bumped into a door or something with a bed, but he was the one pulling the bed, I was holding the door open as far as I could. And he was like, "Bronson!" Like boy. And I had to move like four beds with him. He also kept talking about this house that he wants to buy on Terry Street or something. He was a little obsessed with that. I talked to Julia quite a bit too. I had to tell her about me knocking the drinking fountain off the wall a couple of weeks ago, we talked about Love Island, and she told me a message that Lance had for us. That he wants the transporters to start doing more and documenting everything they do. Like moving IV poles and wheelchairs and marking all of that. And Brendan said that Lance said he wants us to start staying down at the CDU. I don't know how well that's gonna work. I don't think anything else really crazy happened. I only had like, 15 or 16 transports done at the end of the day.

Afterwards I went to Frank's Hill, made some beef stroganoff Hamburger Helper, ate the whole box (because I literally ate nothing all day), watched YouTube, and started watching Aliens, but I fell asleep. And that was that.

So today was literally just work, as all my work days are. But at least there were good transporters to talk to. 4.5/10.

7/9/26

Today we were still in London, ON, so we got up and went to Stacked Pancake and Breakfast House which was across from our hotel. I got the Canadian hash, which had bacon, peameal (which tastes like ham), mushrooms, and cheese. And it also came with toast so I got rye toast, and an egg which I got over medium. That was a really good meal. Janell got some kind of avocado toast, my mom got chicken and waffles, but she really didn't like the chicken so she only ate the waffles. She was talking about that chicken for the rest of the trip and said it ruined chicken for her for a bit. I think my dad got something more basic like eggs and sausage or something.

We'd packed up our things before we left, so we were on the road after that. I was driving because I wanted to drive. Before we left London, my mom and I got a Coke from Burger King because we needed some caffeine. I wanted to Dr. Pepper but they didn't have it. So I started driving and I drove us to Sarnia, which was the next place we decided to go. It was just over an hour and it was an alright little drive.

In Sarnia, Ontario, the first place we went was to the beach, because my mom said the beach here is supposed to be one of the best. We actually didn't end up at the beach at first, we ended up at a park. My mom got out to try and find a bathroom, Janell realized she had ranch all over her seat and her butt that she was sitting on, and my dad was really admiring the old log cabins in the park. Then we realized the beach was down a different road, so we drove a couple of minutes further to the beach.

The beach we went to was Canatara Beach on Lake Huron, and it was actually very nice. It was kind of a rocky beach and the water was really cold, but I loved it. Once you dive under the water, it really stops feeling cold. I think I liked it because it was freshwater. But we swam around and relaxed on the sand for about an hour or so, then we got changed and left.

After that I'm pretty sure we went to some thrift stores. My dad, sister, and I went to a Salvation Army while my mom waited in the car. I found a nice jacket in there that I got. Then Janell and I went across the street to another store called Choice Thrift. I found a t-shirt I kind of liked and a Hockey Nova Scotia jersey which I got. So that store was nice, too. We drove to Walmart after that because we were going to get some beach towels for the beach again tomorrow. I got a little Lego set in there, too, because it was actually like a dollar cheaper here if you convert to USD.

After that shopping, we went to Stoke's Grill and Bar to eat. Janell picked this place out and it was actually a really nice environment. Janell got some kind of pink cocktail, I forgot what it was called. She just wanted to order one because she's legal here. I got some kind of Philly cheesesteak as my meal, Janell got fish and chips, and my parents got ribs. It was all pretty good.

Janell wanted ice cream again tonight, so I drove us all to a place she picked out called The Ice Creamery (very original name). I backed into their driveway which Janell said was crazy. I actually didn't get anything here because I was still pretty full, but they all got something. Janell got a milkshake, my mom got a banana ice cream, and my dad probably got something chocolate.

Then we went to our hotel, which was another Holiday Inn, and turned in for the night basically. We saw another rainbow, which was like the fifth one or something. Then I probably played more Minecraft.

So today was good, I really like Sarnia, it's a cute little town. 8/10.

7/5/26

Today I woke up at Janell's house because that's where I slept after the Fourth of July yesterday. I actually didn't wake up until noon, when Janell had already left and came back from her church job. I slept so late because I hardly got any sleep from her stupid cat waking me up at all hours of the night. Anyways, I left and went home pretty soon after that.

When I got home, my mom said we were going to go ahead and leave today for our Niagara Falls trip we were planning. So I started packing some for that. My mom was getting pretty worked up already and I kept playing Minecraft instead of packing and that didn't help. But I got packed pretty quickly, got things I needed out of my car, said bye to the animals, and all that. Janell got home around 3:30 PM probably and she got ready, too. My dad fed the orange cat and checked some stuff at his building, and we were gone a little after 4.

We stopped at Burger King in Cape first, because everyone (besides me, I wanted Culver's) wanted to go there. I got a pretty good double cheeseburger though. I also got a Kidd's sweet tea because we had to fill up with gas. Then we left Cape and didn't stop until we got to a rest stop. In the car I actually played some Minecraft for a bit because I brought my laptop. We kept driving until we got to Evansville, Indiana, where we stayed at a Holiday Inn.

My mom and sister actually went to McDonald's once we were here because Janell wanted coffee, and they brought me a free cheeseburger back. Apparently her coffee wasn't too good, she said it tasted like tea. I went and filled up the ice container because that's always my job, then I played some more Minecraft. My dad was finding some interesting movies on TV. He also had the crazy quote of, "Look up videos of girls farting after colonoscopies."

It took me a while to fall asleep and I watched several YouTube videos, including finishing the rewatch of the Chris Chan documentary. So I slept from about 2:30 to 7 AM.

Today not too much happened, but it was the start of a vacation, so it was still a 5/10 day.

7/2/26

Today I had work and it was not a good day. I got up at around 11, got a shower, got ready, and left at 11:42 to get to work at noon.

Work was bad because the first guy I had to move was 540 pounds and in a wheelchair, and I had to move him two other times after that. Then pretty early on at around 1 PM, I was moving a patient in a bed with a tech from med tele. In the hall leaving med tele, an IRF nurse was walking a lady and had a wheel chair and pole and everything in the hallway, blocking it, so we tried to squeeze past, but we hit an obstacle. We hit the water fountain on the wall and knocked it off. Only the top part that was bracketed to the wall came off, it just came off the clips, but some water was dripping out. But the actual pipe connected to the wall didn't disconnect. But everyone freaked out and was acting like it was a code blue or something, the way they all crowded around the scene. And the stupid IRF nurse started taking charge, trying to pick it up and saying, "Call maintenance ASAP!!!" I only think he's stupid, because afterwards, he was talking to some other nurse and they both were talking about the incidence and giving me these looks, so I know they were talking about me. A little town gossip is what he is. Probably gloating about how he saved the day. But he was the one blocking the whole hallway in the first place. At least I hit the water fountain instead of the patient, I guess. So we did that and brought that patient up to Cardiac Pavilion. At least the patient thought it was funny. And Carolyn was up at Pavilion, so I was just overwhelmed. After that, everyone knew about it and were asking me. Then I had to move another bed, but with Brendon, and I knocked the bottom of a hand sanitizer thing attached to the wall off. So he probably thought I was drunk. And I kind of ran him against the wall with a bed, too, but that was his fault. Brendon is very annoying to move beds with. He is always the one behind pushing, but he has to hardly be pushing at all. Because I'll be up at the front, steering, but having to pull with all my might. Sometimes I feel like he's pulling the opposite way as I'm trying to pull. And we'll be moving soooo slow down the hall. And the time I ran him into the wall was the only time he let me push, but I ran him into the wall because he wasn't steering it. Ugh. So it was just an annoying freaking day. Everyone was annoying. The transporters there today were me, Brendon, Briley, and Maci, one of the ones still training. Brendon left at 6:30 and I was on my own from there. I had some from the ER, and that was basically my night. One of the ones from the ER, I was pushing her out of the room, but forgot to unplug her catheter tubing from the suction on the wall, so I turned around to do that, but the nurses rushed in and were like, "You're still plugged in! I told you she was still on the catheter!" And it's like, yeah, I saw that, that's why I turned around to get it, it's not like it was about to pull out. And I unplugged that stupid tubing and a bit of pee splashed on my face. So that was gross. And that was my work. I played some Minecraft in the break room for the last 30 minutes because luckily I didn't have any more.

Then I left, went to Kidd's and got a sweet tea, went to Frank's Hill and made some toasted ravioli, watched some YouTube, played some Sims 4, rewatched a Chris Chan documentary because that popped up again, and went to bed at about 4 AM on my couch.

So today was like a 4/10. Work honestly wasn't great but at least it felt like it went by kind of quick. And I kind of like my work days because it's the only time I talk to people and feel like a part of society.

7/1/26

Today was another work day, so I got up from the couch I slept on, got ready, took a shower and all of that, then my mom showed up at around 11:30 because she was going to work some on the house. She brought me Chick-fil-A chicken minis, hashbrowns, and a sweet tea, so that was nice. Then I left and got to work at noon.

Work wasn't too bad, it felt like it went by pretty fast. There were a lot of transporters there. Cali was with Julia and Maci, training them. Brendon was there and apparently he was already by himself and done training, and I don't really know if he was ready for that yet. He had to come ask me how to get to PACU. Then Mark was also there and I think he was on his own now. I helped him move a patient in a bed up to Cardiac Pavilion and we saw Carolyn. She called me a sweetie pie and Jimmy was like, "Sweetie pie?" That was kind of funny. So there were six transporters for a while. I think it was Julia's last day training, too. I didn't really talk to her until Cali left, but we talked some. We did a few transports together and talked about Love Island. I was by myself after 4:30 because all the other transporters had left by then. It was kind of busy but not horrible.

After work I went home and didn't do much, just watched YouTube. I've been watching Stampy's Quest series again, I feel like I watch that a lot, but it's funny and kind of comforting. I think it was around 3 AM before I went to sleep.

Today was like a 5/10. It was just a work day, but work wasn't bad.

6/26/26

I honestly don't remember what I did today, except for the main thing.

Well I know we were over at Frank's Hill some. My mom and dad had gutted the bathroom yesterday, so we worked over there some. I think we got the laminate flooring all torn off.

After we worked over there, we went to the Holmes's because they were having a crawfish boil. So it was a little awkward here because I really didn't know anyone. But Janell was here, my parents, Jennifer, David, June, George, my grandparents, and then a bunch of strangers. But the food was good. Janell talked to some boys she knew there, like Gabe and Lucas Skidmore. We were there for a little longer than I wanted to be, I was ready to leave and hour or two before we finally did.

So that was the day in a nutshell. 4/10 day.

6/25/26

Today I had work again and didn't do much that morning. I got up at 10 AM, took a shower, brushed my teeth, did all that, and left at 11:45 to get to work at noon. I saw Zach from my nursing cohort on my way into the hospital and he said he was there because his sister-in-law was giving birth.

Work itself was alright. I was training Brendon again today and he was there the whole day with me, from noon to 10:30. So we spent quite a bit of time together. Briley was also there and was training Julia and some other blonde-haired girl who was last week, too. So I talked to Julia some again and she came with me and Brendon to get a PACU patient. We talked some about Owala water bottles, places we've traveled to, and how homey the first floor of the hospital feels. But work wasn't really that busy, I only did like 18 or 19 I think. I listened to almost the whole The Wall album throughout the day.

Then I don't remember what I did after work. I think I just went back to Frank's Hill and I think I watched some early Stampy videos again. I've been watching the old archived Lovely World videos, just because they're kinda nostalgic I guess.

So that was my day. Training people is kind of fun, and I got to talk to Julia. So 5/10 day. 

6/24/26

Today I woke up around 10:30 or so and went to work at noon. At work I had to train a guy named Brendon and it was his second day. I've been doing a lot of training here recently, last week with Julia, Parker, and Vanessa, and then now Brendon. I was with him from noon until 4:30, when he left. At around 2, my mom asked if I wanted a drink or anything, since she also worked today. I kinda did, so I went down to meet her in the cafeteria. Brendon also came and my mom got him a burger and drink, too. I don't think anything too significant happened at work today. Kim, one of the med tele nurses dropped that she went to high school with my dad and knew him, so that was weird. It was really slow and I had none for around 2 hours from 7:30 to 9:30. So I had around 26 done by the time I left. Then I went back to Frank's Hill, played some Minecraft, watched some YouTube, played some Sims 4, and went to bed at 3 AM.

Today was basically only work, but it wasn't awful. 4/10.

6/16/26

Today I got up, played Minecraft One-Block Bedwars, went to my dentist appointment where they told me I had a cavity on my left lower tooth and my enamel is gone due to my braces. Then I went to Vintage Stock and browsed without buying anything, it started raining like crazy while I drove to Frank's Hill, I chilled and played some Fortnite there, then left to go home. My mom made sausages and those were good, I played more Minecraft, went outside with the dogs and brushed them out, my family talked some about the vacation we were gonna take in July, I watched the first episode of The Mighty Boosh and thought it was pretty funny, and that was basically my day.

Today was a 4/10 because I didn't do much.

5/10/26

Today was the first day of our road trip that we were going on out west. I was gonna just stay up all night because my mom wanted us to leave at 6:30 AM, but I ended up falling asleep at 4:30 or something, so I was harder to get up because I got that little bit of sleep. I also didn't really pack at all, so I did all of my packing this morning after getting up a little before 6 AM or whenever. So we got all ready and everything, said bye to the dogs, and it ended up being around 7 before we left.

We started driving and my dad accidentally sent my mom's mom "Best Mom Ever" on a Mother's Day gif, so that was kind of funny. The first place we stopped at was McDonald's in Perryville for breakfast and I got two Sausage McMuffins. My mom's car also had an update and you couldn't start the car while it was updating, so we were just waiting outside that McDonald's and gas station for a good fifteen minutes or so while it did that.

After that we were on the road for a while until we stopped at a rest area and then stopped for lunch a little while later. This was a bit before we went through Kansas City, and we stopped at a Burger King, which would not have been my first choice. So I only got a large fry because I wasn't really feeling anything else. Janell got her little veggie burger since she's still pescatarian. We stopped at Cenex in St. Joseph a little after eating to fill up with gas and then kept driving for another four hours. I mainly just slept and Janell and I started a movie called The Reflecting Skin.

We drove up the Iowa and Nebraska border and didn't really stop until a gas station in South Dakota. Then we kept going until we got to Sioux Falls, which was where we were staying for the night.

We went to Red Lobster to eat because my mom had a 10 dollar off coupon, but it wasn't really a great experience. I think we were there more than half an hour before we got biscuits and an hour and a half before our food came out. And our server kept going on smoke breaks and bringing that smell in. And she didn't apply our coupon before checking us out, so we didn't even get the 10 dollars off and she didn't refund it or anything even though we'd already redeemed it. So that was useless. Anyways, I got the shrimp trio and it wasn't too bad, but not really worth the price.

Afterwards, we went to our hotel, which was a Holiday Inn in Sioux Falls. I don't think we did much here, just brought all our stuff in, showered, and got ready for bed.

So today was mainly just driving as far as we could, but it really wasn't that bad of a day. I would say it was a good start to our vacation. 6.5/10.

4/14/26

Today I didn't have my OB clinical, so I slept in until around 1 PM. I slept on the couch and woke up a little sore, so it was a slow morning. I really didn't do much at all until around 3 PM, when I started getting ready to go to an extra credit thing they were having for my adult health class.

I left and got to the extra credit thing at 3:30. This was a little lecture about mandated reporting that was going on in Crisp, and I thought it was only going to be our class, but it was also for the semester below ours, so Janell's cohort. So she was there too, and this room was super full. Like, there were barely any seats left, full. I signed the sign-in sheet and had to sit in the very front next to Noelle and Adriana. I talked to them some, so it wasn't all that bad. The actual thing was led by an older lady who was a pediatric nurse, and it was kind of sad. She told a lot of stories about abuse and sexual assault cases of kids she's seen. This thing went on until 5 PM, and then we could leave.

Afterwards, I had Janell go get me Panda Express from the UC with her funds. So I got this orange chicken with peppers and green beans, fried rice, and a Dr. Pepper. She just got rangoons. We ate and talked in the UC for a bit and then left and went our separate ways. As I was driving when I left, something weird happened and my car suddenly died and lost all power. I was able to pull most of the way into the parking lot across from the SEMO bookstore, I turned my car off, and turned it back on and it was fine. I thought it might've been because I was low on gas, so I went to fill up.

After that I waited out in the parking lot of the hospital because it was about time for me to go to work. Then I went in at 6:30 PM. Work wasn't too bad, the ER was pretty busy. Apparently there were 41 patients down there. So I think all of mine were from the ER and there were only like 5 requests tonight. Even though it felt like more. Nothing really notable from it.

Then I went home, finished my Panda Express from earlier, ate an apple, watched the new Slushy Noobz Fall Guys video, and got ready for bed. I slept upstairs tonight even though it was kind of hot up there because the last time I slept on the couch downstairs, I woke up a little sore.

So today was alright I guess, no class except that extra credit thing, Panda Express was good, and work was average. 5/10 day.

4/10/26

Today I had my mental health clinical and it was at the Southeast Behavioral Hospital again. So I got up and almost fell asleep again, but my mom called me to make sure I was up, and that got me up. I got ready, drank an Alani, and left.

I got to the behavioral hospital at 8 AM and went in. This week, I'd be on the adult side with CJ, Katie, and Tanya, since two weeks ago we were on the adolescent side. So we all met in the lobby and Dr. Twidwell led us to the breakroom in the back to leave our stuff. We had to sit in there for a while while Twidwell led the other three people who were going to be on the adolescent side over there. Then she came back and got us and brought us to the adult side. I was actually pretty nervous because I wasn't feeling any confidence to talk to anyone. I was thinking it might be easier to start talking with adults rather than children, but no, I think it was harder.

On the adult side, there weren't many there at first, I guess they aren't required to be up until 9 AM. There were a few, and one of them was a guy named Steve, who was very friendly. So we all talked to him for a bit. There were only two adult patients in there for a while and the two girls were both talking to them, so CJ and I were just watching Ice Age that was playing on the TV for a while. The next person to come in was a girl named Isabella and she came over and sat next to me after Dr. Twidwell convinced her to come over to one of us. So I talked to her for a good while and it was actually nice. I feel like I got to know her pretty well and I enjoyed talking to her. We talked about her experience here, her goals, my nursing classes, hiking, what to do in Cape, books she's read, journaling, all sorts of stuff. The room filled up pretty quick after that but no one else really came over to our table.

We went to treatment team at around 10:30 AM and got to listen to the psychiatrist and some other professionals discuss the patients. That was also kind of interesting and sad because you learn a lot about their background that you wouldn't learn just from a casual conversation with them. We went back in with the patients and there was a guy named Owen at my table now, so I sat with him and talked a little bit. He was a bit harder to talk to, but he said he's been to a lot of facilities like this. Then they all got the opportunity to go outside, so a lot of them did and we went too. Their outside area was a walled courtyard that felt like a lot like a prison yard. There was a grassy area, a sidewalk, and a basketball hoop. We all played basketball for a while, mainly just us students playing. We tried playing PIG but we all sucked. There was one patient who was doing all of these warm-up exercises and then sprinting full speed on the grass, so that was interesting to see. A lot of the patients were just sitting at some tables outside, and that's what I eventually did. I did that after I had to be the referee for Katie and CJ's little basketball 1v1, which took forever because neither of them could make a shot. The sprinting guy was having a worker there time him, and then he was trying to do all of these calculations to see how much he ran. Then Isabella came back out and asked if I wanted to throw a football some, so I did, and I kind of sucked at first, but I got a little spiral eventually. And we had another good talk, we talked about my college experience, Spanish classes, sports we've played, that kind of stuff. I don't really like how that's the most normal and friendly conversation I've had with someone in a long time. Like, I could see myself being her friend, but she's a patient here and has done some troubled things. But it was really nice talking to her.

We were able to leave for lunch after we went back in. We had from around 11:50 to 12:40, so I went to McDonald's and got a cheeseburger with my points and a frozen Coke because I was craving one. Then I sat up in the trailer park that overlooks the behavioral hospital and where I used to go for piano lessons and listened to music in my car.

We went back in at 12:40 PM and were able to get out charts. I did mine on Isabella because I definitely talked to her the most. So we got a lot of our packets filled out and were in here for an hour or so probably.

After we got all the information we needed from the charts for our paperwork, we could leave and go to post-conference at SEMO, so that's what I did. At post-conference, everyone just talked about their experience at their clinical site and that was about it.

Then I left and went to Frank's Hill, where I didn't do much. I sat outside on my porch watching it rain for a while, took a nap, and then got up and started working on my clinical paperwork from two weeks ago which was due tonight. So talk about waiting until the last minute. I got all of that done after a couple of hours and then started working on this blog entry. I also realized a book that I started last night, The Stand by Stephen King, is a lot like the book that Isabella was reading today, Station Eleven. So that was a weird coincidence. Then I went out and decided to smoke the rest of a cigar that I started a few weeks ago, and I just decided to try and finish it. So I was out on my porch smoking this and listening to music for at least an hour, and it was kind of nice. I think towards the end, I started to get a little nic sick, I felt a bit nauseous, so I quit and drank some water and a couple of sips of Coke. And I still had probably a fifth of the cigar to go, so I really only smoked a little over half of it in this session. Then I took a long shower and went to bed at around 2 AM.

So I guess today was pretty good, I did enjoy the behavioral hospital. So 6.5/10.

4/2/26

Today I woke up at 5:30 AM to get ready for my adult health clinical. I was still tired when I got up because I only got about five and a half hours of sleep, but I actually didn't wake up at all last night and didn't use any sleep aid, so that's good. So I got up, got ready, ate an apple and a banana, and drank part of a Voodoo Grape Monster. I actually ate breakfast because today I was going to be in the OR at St. Francis, so that's exciting.

I got to clinical and went in a little before 6:30. Everyone else got their patients and lucky me didn't because I wasn't staying in neuro today. So happy about that. I did help Panashe give his bariatric patient a bed bath because I didn't have to be at OR until 8 o'clock. That was pretty interesting, I think the guy had a Staph. lugdunensis infection, which I'd never heard of. So that took a good hour and a half or so. We did the full bath, changed his external catheter, and changed the bed sheets.

Then at 8 AM, Whitney took Kaerynn to the wound clinic and me to OR. She passed me off to a lady named Debbie, and I guess Debbie knew my mom because she was asking about her. And then Whitney started going crazy like, "Who's your mom?" because she thinks she knows everyone. Debbie led me to the breakroom area and showed me where to get scrubs and change in the locker room. So I did that, and then I met back up with her. Unfortunately, there weren't any crazy cool cases today, like no cardiac stuff. I got stuck sitting in a robotic inguinal hernia repair for the first one. There was a nurse in there named Julie or something that was talking to me some about the procedure. That whole thing probably lasted an hour or so and I walked back to the PACU once they were done. Then she told me to wait outside of room 4 for the next case. So I waited for like, twenty minutes until people showed up in there, then I went in. This one was a hemorrhoidectomy, awesome. Just kidding, it was not awesome. I was with Dr. Richmond for all of these cases. So he held the anus open with this speculum thing and I couldn't even really tell what was going on. They sprayed betadine on that whole area and that was kind of terrifying looking because it looked like blood. And there was a lot of blood once he started digging in there. There was a nurse in there named Richard who was talking to me some. I think he was from Texas. After that one, I kind of just wandered around some because I didn't know where I was supposed to go. There wasn't really a specific person I was supposed to be following, and I just kept walking in circles, I was kind of lost. Eventually I found Julie and she said I could go into one in room 5, which was another robotic inguinal hernia. Great. So I saw another one of those. They are kind of cool, and I got to see the entire process this time, I missed the setting up and everything for the first one. There was actually a complication in this one, I think they accidentally made and incision in the stomach or inflated the CO2 in the stomach or something, so it took some extra work. After that, there was a gallbladder removal or something that I started out in, but realized it was almost 12:30 PM, so I went out and Debbie found me and said my instructor was looking for me. So she led me back to the locker room, I got changed, talked to a guy named Alan who said he knew my mom, and went back up to the neuro floor.

We went over post-conference and I wasn't late or anything. We were out before 1 PM, and I texted Janell to see if she'd get me food and she said she'd order me Panda Express to pick up. So I went to the UC and picked that up, I got orange chicken and fried rice. Then I went to Nana's, ate that, and fell asleep for almost two hours. Apparently my dad came over here, but I was asleep so he didn't wake me up. When I woke up I had about an hour or two before I had to go to work, so I got some stuff done and then left for work.

Work started out not busy for the first thirty minutes, and after that it was busy non-stop for the rest of the night. Like crazy busy. There was this one guy on CPC that I had to get twice throughout the night for x-ray and CT, and he was pretty difficult. He was in constant pain and always groaning and cursing, I guess it was abdominal pain. And it always took me forever to find his stupid nurse to disconnect his IV. And he also made me bring the whole telemetry computer with me. Like, we did not need that, he was stable. Then PACU was assigning me stuff like crazy all night, which was unusual. I guess they finally discovered how to put in requests. I had three or four from them. But I kind of like going back to surgery. There were several ultrasound ones and some ER stuff, too. Janell called me when I was almost done asking if there are any more drug tests throughout the semester because she was planning to go smoke with her friends. Ridiculous. Anyways, I had 13 requests done by the end of the shift. That's the most I've had in four hours. I snatched a piece of pizza from the med tele break room and left at 10:30.

After that I went to Nana's, studied some mental health for the exam next week, wrote this, and ended the night.

5/10 day today. At least it felt pretty filling again.

3/31/26

Today is the last day of March and man, this month flew by so quick. I don't even remember anything significant from it. Anyways, today felt pretty full, so I'm choosing to write about it.

I woke up and got ready at around 7 AM and went to my clinical for OB at St. Francis at 8 AM. I was the only one scheduled for OB clinical this week, and it was my diverse day so I was supposed to be at the NICU clinic where I'd never been before, so I was a little scared. I went inside and waited in the lobby area for the Women's and Children Pavilion because I didn't know if an instructor like Kacie Curry would be there or not. And once it was several minutes past 8, I figured she wasn't gonna come get me. So I went into this women's health room and asked someone and they said to go up to the third floor where the NICU was. I wasn't sure about that because I knew that the NICU and the NICU clinic were two different places, but I got on the elevator with a family and kind of followed them, and sure enough, there was the clinic. It wasn't called the NICU clinic, it was called the growth development clinic or something, but they said I was at the right place.

So I went in there and the first lady I saw was someone I knew, it was Christina Dougherty, Riley and Delaney's mom from Nell Holcomb. I went into the room that the family I rode the elevator with was in and got to watch the nurses do everything. These babies were about 13 months old and were twins and were pretty cute. They got measured and then the nurses were doing lots of tests and stuff on them, like seeing their motor skills, can they find what cup the puff is under, can they pull themselves up, stuff like that. So honestly, this seemed like it would be a pretty good nursing job, nothing stressful at all. To bad men don't really work in this field. I followed around a nurse named April, but there was also a nurse practitioner I followed some. There was another baby that I think was around four months old with orange hair and that baby was adorable. She was having trouble pooping though, she'd only go like once a week or something. So they were trying to find fixes for that. They turned out the lights and swaddled her and tried feeding her in a low-stimulation environment I guess. This baby was really hyper-sensitive to everything, like any noise it would look for, if you moved it looked at you. The last baby was nine months I think and the mom was worried because he would sleep for over 18 hours a day and he had a really flat expression. But I guess all of that was pretty normal and he just had low muscle tone. And that was basically it, after that baby they said there wouldn't be another one until 1 PM, so I could go. So I left at around 11:50. So I think that was my easier clinical ever. It felt like it went by super quick and it was pretty fun.

Afterwards I texted Janell and she said she'd get me lunch. So I went to the UC and we walked in with her friend Alyson. She got some kind of sandwich and I got a delicious burrito. And I talked to Candy, the lady who's always working back there. She's always nice. Janell and I didn't talk much because it was around 12:10 when we met and she had to be at Crisp to record her TikTok assignment at 12:30 with her group, so we took our food to-go and talked on the way out.

I left and went to Nana's to eat. I ate out on the porch, and afterwards, I went and laid in the grass with my shirt off. I figured I'd try to get a little sun because it was a UV of 7 then and I'm still pretty pale. So that was nice, I just relaxed and listened to music. My mom called and said she's gonna bring me some food to eat before work, so she got me Taco Bell and showed up after a while with it. Then I kind of had some free time, I played Fortnite, got some homework done, watched some YouTube. I ate some of my Taco Bell and then left for work at 6:15.

I got to work and it was pretty busy because Rylee called in sick so I had to do it all myself. But it didn't really feel that busy, luckily. There were a lot of new people, like employees, I'd never seen, so that was interesting. I embarrassed myself one time because I was bent down doing something in a patient's room and then I stood up and bonked my head on the TV and went "Ow!" And the patient and two nurses were in the room and saw it. Then I embarrassed myself again because I decided to be nice and put the pads on the bed for a tech, and I put them on upside down apparently. So she corrected me. Another time I got a little embarrassed was when I brought a guy up from the ER and he had a wheelchair in his room that I forgot to take up with me. I went back down to return the stretcher he was on and the nurse lady was like, "Did you realize he had a whole wheelchair that you left behind?" in a snarky tone. And I was like, "Whatever, I'm going back up there anyways," so I brought it back up to him. But work wasn't that bad, I did 10 transports in four hours.

Afterwards I went home, ate my cheesy gordita crunch and drank the rest of my Baja Blast, watched Slushy Noobz Patreon video from today, played some Skyrim, brushed my teeth, put my retainer in, and wrote this.

So it wasn't that exciting of a day, but it felt more filling than most. So 6/10.