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.

2/25/26

Not too much happened today. Today was my latest class but I still had to be there at 9 AM. So I got up, got ready, and went to that.

It was the maternal-newborn lecture class, so it was pretty boring. My nose started running out of nowhere, so I checked my bag for some allergy medicine and all I had was Benadryl. I knew it could make you drowsy, but I had part of an Alani this morning, so I figured one pill wouldn't be too bad. Well, about thirty minutes after that I was dozing off. So it was pretty hard to stay awake. I had to get up a couple of times to go to the bathroom and splash some water on my face and stretch. In class we did the APGAR group project and took a quiz over neonates at the end. So I stayed awake for those parts.

I went back to Nana's after that and fell asleep on the couch at around 2 PM. During that nap I had the craziest dream that I guess was Benadryl-induced. Here is the dream that I wrote down right as I woke up because it was so surreal:

First part I was really into horses. There was a place by June’s house with horses and Lou Ann’s house was also near there. I kept driving by to see the horses and one time Lou Ann saw me and stopped me. She had a wad full of cash because she’d just given piano lessons to someone. She was there with someone else and they went out to my car with me in it and started messing with this thing I had on my hood, and it was doing all this stuff. It was like a speedometer on the dashboard of my car that could control a covering on my windshield.

Second part of the dream, our family was on a vacation and had a hotel in Texas. I woke up one day and my family was gone. I went outside and walked along the road in the desert until I got to an intersection with a billboard that said “Massachusetts that way” with an arrow. There were all sorts of metal painted cacti around this intersection and a billboard with a bunch of brochures. I thought about trying to hitchhike with any of the cars that were passing, but then I called my mom and asked what our plan was today and she got kind of mad that I asked that, but what I meant to ask was where they all were.

Third part, I ended up at Sarah’s house by myself somehow, and eventually all of her kids showed up. I remember they were doing some weird stuff to me, like Lydia was braiding my hair into some weird hairstyle or something. Then Johnny showed up and I remember having the hairstyle when he got there. He couldn’t talk very well because he’d just been to some weird religious cult thing where they had to remove some of his bones, and they took some of his teeth. But it was something that he wanted to go to, but he felt ashamed to talk about it.

The fourth part of the dream, I was at the religious place. Janell and my dad were also there. It was in a big room that was kind of like Elk's Lodge with tables and chairs and they started serving food. It was really vibe-based here. In remember Janell was acting a little off and my dad saw that and got mad. You really had to fit in with everyone. There was some phrase they used to indicate when someone wasn’t acting like they should, but I forgot. My dad was kind of into this religion, I was pretending so my vibe wouldn’t be detected. They started serving food and I went to get some. I went to break off a piece of sausage to put on my plate, but ended up putting lettuce instead. I was really struggling to serve my food. But I got it and ate it, and then it got even weirder.

The fifth part involved people from my nursing cohort as well as Adventure Time. I think the food we ate was drugged, because cracks started forming in the room that the religious cult was in, and lot of people escaped. I was one of them, and I started running, along with some other people. Some people from my nursing cohort like Noelle were following me, but we were all being chased by something and they couldn’t keep up. Then I was somehow in Adventure Time, but I was using powers from Terraria, and I started chasing Princess Bubblegum, it was all weird from the drugged food. I eventually made it back to the religious room where they had cots all out on the floor and Jayden and some others from my nursing group were there. They’d also escaped but came back to the room. And that was it.

So that was the dream, it doesn't sound that different than any other crazy dream, but it felt different. It felt like such a long and surreal dream. So I woke up from that at around 4:30 PM and went out on the porch to write it down in my notes app. I didn't really do much else that evening, just watched YouTube, probably played Terraria, then watched some Modern Family, made some red beans and rice and the beans were still hard, so that wasn't too good. Then I took a nice bath and listened to music, then finished my homework after that, brushed my teeth, took some melatonin, and went to bed before midnight on the couch.

So pretty good day I guess, but not really. All I did was go to class and have a trippy dream. 3/10.

2/24/26

Today I had a simulation day for my maternal-newborn clinical, so I got up at 6 AM, got ready, studied for maybe a minute, and left because we had to be there by 7:00.

I got to SEMO and went up to the second floor where they were meeting, and the first thing we did was take a "ticket to class" which was a twelve question quiz that we had to get at least an 8/12 on to participate today. And she also said if we fail this, we fail the whole clinical. So I studied for several hours for this yesterday, so I was kind of confident, but when we got the quiz, I was so scared. I felt like I didn't know any of the questions. I was one of the last people to finish, and I ended up getting a 9/12 somehow. But I had to guess on some. The questions were like, which communication method should you use, what's the breathing pattern for compressions, where should the resuscitation leader stand, and none of this was what I studied. My watch gave me a notification that I had a high resting heartrate while taking it.

But after that was done, we went to the assessment lab, some lady talked to us for a while, she put us into groups (we were group 2), and then we went to the stations. There were three stations, one for delivery, one for NRP after delivery, and one for SBAR. So we did the delivery one first with Dudley, then the NRP one with the other lady. For that one, we practiced listening to a manikin baby's heartrate and there was this duck with a hat IV stand in the room that I was obsessed with. We also had to give breaths to the little baby. Then SBAR was just working on some papers and examples. I started feeling sick in the middle of this and left to go take a dump. Don't know what was up with that. Maybe because we had to do check-offs at the end of the day today and I was nervous. We started check-offs eventually and Paige said she'd do them with me since I didn't have a partner, but then Panashe said he'd be my partner even though he was also Zach's partner. The check-offs took forever, each group took like 20 minutes and there were probably 12 groups. So we were waiting for over an hour. Panashe and Zach went, and I was gonna go after them so Panashe could just go back-to-back, but Tanya said she had work, so I let her go and me and Panashe had to wait another 20 or 30 minutes. So it was around 12:30 by the time we went, and it went pretty good. I was really nervous, but I didn't do that bad. She asked the four pre-birth questions, then we had thirty seconds to set up the room, then the baby was born, and they had this manikin baby all covered in this vernix stuff, Panashe did most of the stuff in this room and I was just standing there. Then we went to the other room and I did the breaths and the MRSOPA stuff while Panashe did the heartrate. And that was basically it, we passed. Then we went and had to fill out some other forms afterwards for a while, and we were out of there before 1 PM.

the only picture of the duck on all the internet

After class, I went to Nana's and slept from 2 to 4:30 on the couch, played Terraria, and then my mom brought some sushi here after calling. So that was yummy. She also brought some McDonald's chicken nuggets from my dad. Then I just played some piano and goofed around a bit until it was time for work, and I left for that at 6:15.

I was surprisingly the only transporter tonight. Usually Rylee would be here or someone who's training. But it was just me, and it luckily wasn't very busy. Just some ER transports, nothing crazy. But this was my first time back on the neuro floor on the fourth floor. I guess they finally got done with the renovations and opened it back up. So that'll be different, they've been working on that probably since October. And it looks basically the same up there, the floors are just more modern. But yeah, for the last couple hours I don't think I had any transports and I ended up just playing Survev.io and Terraria on my laptop. The State of Union Address was playing on the TV behind me, so I listened to that, too. And that was it.

I went home afterwards, watched YouTube, listened to music, ate some sushi, and made green beans on the stove because I was hungry for them. Then I watched an episode of Only Fools and Horses and fell asleep on the couch.

So today was probably a 5. Kind of boring.

2/13/26

Today was kind of eventful, compared to most of my days. I started out by getting up and getting ready for my mental health clinical, which was at Gibson Center today. I also drank a coffee and then took some ibuprofen and a muscle relaxant because my back was still hurting some today, but was not anywhere near what it was yesterday.

So I left for that and got there at 8 AM. It was me, Aastha, Ellie Kate, and Briana there today, so we met up in the parking lot and walked in together. We had to sit in the waiting room for like, 15 minutes before someone came to get us. That lady talked to us some in a small conference room, just telling us the rules and all that, then we got a little tour, and then we went to their morning meeting. This was kind of boring, they were just talking about some of the patients, where they were going, where they're coming from, that kind of stuff. Then we split up and Ellie and Briana went somewhere, while Aastha and I stayed in the meeting room. We got to see some of the people get their meds, so that was kind of interesting, but not really. One patient, Lindsay, had to take Narcan and see if she felt better, so we just sat in this room for half an hour seeing if her symptoms got better. And I think my muscle relaxant was making me tired, I forgot that was a side effect of those. So I kept drifting off to sleep in my chair. Eventually that was over and the lady we were with took us on a more in-depth tour, over to the rehab area. We were over there for a bit, a guy over there gave us a pretty comprehensive tour. The patients were watching some comedians on the TV. Then they got information that we shouldn't be over in this area because one of the patients was a SEMO student and it was a breach of contract or something. So we were evacuated out of there and went to a big group meeting afterwards with all these patients. In this meeting, they were all able to talk about drugs and alcohol and all this stuff. I kind of missed most of it because I was really sleepy during this. Apparently there was one guy at the meeting who hears voices that he thinks are from God, and he's schizophrenic, and was waving his hands around. The people from my class were talking about that in post-conference. I completely missed that. But yeah, after that meeting we were basically done, the lady there signed our paper, and we left.

I went to Kidd's afterwards, filled up with gas, got a sweet tea, and then went to Nana's. I think I probably just played Terraria or watched YouTube there. I've been really into Terraria lately. That's been my game of the month.

Post-conference was at 2:30, so I went to that at SEMO and we talked about our experiences at our clinical sites. Nothing much happened here.

I went home afterwards and didn't do much here either. I think I played more Terraria and laid on the heating pad for my back. We were planning to go out to eat tonight for Janell's birthday since we never celebrated it because mom and dad were sick. I was going to go with my dad back to town, but he was going to the gym beforehand, so I drove myself back to town. I actually stopped at Nana's, dropped my car off, and then my mom picked me up. She also dropped off a ton of groceries that she got, so I'm fully stocked up over there. Thanks mom!

So she picked me up and we went to pick Janell up, who was at her dorm taking a nap. After we got her, we drove to Olive's Pitaria, which is where she decided to go. We got there and my dad met us there soon after.

The restaurant was in a house, so it just looked like we were walking into a house. But it was actually really good. It was mainly Greek food, so there were gyros, falafel, hummus, all that kind of stuff. I ordered something called a "Oh my Shawarma Wrap" which was shawarma chicken, pickles, and garlic sauce in a wrap and a side of fries. And mine was quite delicious. My dad got a gyro, Janell got something called a falafelito, and I think my mom got shish tawook. My dad's took a little longer to come out than everyone else's so he was a little sad. But all of that food was very good. And for a Friday night, it wasn't too slow. There wasn't a wait or anything. My weird acid-reflux thing happened pretty bad when I ate my food to fast and I had to go to the bathroom and digest all of that. Then Janell also ordered a Dubai chocolate cheesecake slice, and she shared a couple of bites with me, and that was delicious, too. I've never had Dubai chocolate before, definitely recommend. So that place was really good. I also took the rest of Janell's burrito thing because she wasn't gonna take it to-go.

After that we went back to drop Janell off and then me. After my mom dropped me off, I was planning to put on Modern Family, just relax, enjoy my solitude like I always do, but then Grant from TKE texted me, asking if I want to go out with them. So I said sure, because I haven't been at TKE since I left. So I cracked open a beer to prepare a bit for this and played Roblox until time to go.

I left to go there at 9:30 and drank almost a whole Four Loko that I had in my fridge once I got there. Then as I was heading in and ran into Nyk in the parking lot and talked to him some. Then I went in and talked to Scott, Owen, Ryker, Grant, and Whitlow who were all in there. Then we went out a little after 10.

I went with Scott and he drove us to Hypno. There was not much at all going on at Hypno. I ordered a vodka lemonade because that's what everyone was ordering. And it was pretty good for 3 dollars. I was pretty awkward at ordering because I wanted to just order and pay for it there and not open a tab, because the last time I forgot to close it and got a 15 dollar charge from The Library. So we sat there a bit and talked, not much happened. Then Scott took us to The Library. There, I talked to Rachel and Abby who were there. Then I went back over to our group and talked to them. I didn't even order any drinks from here, but I was drunk at this point. The Four Loko was kicking in. For some reason, I was really wanting the guys to go talk to this group of girls, because they always say they will, but they don't. So I went up to them and started talking, and Larik came over (he was there too) and he pulled me back over. I don't know what came over me. Literally liquid courage, because why'd I do that. We left eventually and went back to 333. We talked outside for a good while, I talked to Scott and Whitlow for a good bit, a couple of drunk cigarettes were passed around, and Scott was talking about how much he loved Alysa Liu. Then we were winding down and I slept on the couch there, and that was my night.

So today was good. 8/10 maybe. Just because it felt filling.

2/3/26

Today I didn't have class because it was my OB clinical day and it was my off-week. So I slept in till around 11 AM. When I got up, I noticed the cat food I put out last night was gone now, and I actually saw the cat again, but it ran into the barn. I really hope that cat stays. So I didn't do much at all today, I just watched YouTube (quest series), ate my banana bread, cleaned dishes, swept the floor, won a Fortnite match, stuff like that. When my mom got off work, she brought me McDonald's, so I had a double cheeseburger, fries, nuggets, and sweet tea. My mom is sick with something now (hopefully not RSV) so she had on a mask and had a hoarse voice and stuff. Poor girl.

I went to work at 6:30 and it started out a little busy, lots of stuff from ER. I talked to Rylee some, she said she's going to start going to therapy again. There was this one crazy lady I had to move from ER named Kathy and a security guard girl had to come with me. Kathy kept yelling for Brittney and Robbie. She was just shouting at her max volume through the halls at 10 PM at night. And she'd tell me to stop pushing her and that she didn't want to go. It was pretty sad. I only did five transports today so I had some time to get some of my homework done, too.

I went back home afterwards and was going to start on my GDM diet assignment that is due tomorrow, but I fell asleep before I could start it.

So today was boring, but kinda nice just doing nothing. 3/10.