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.
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