Feb 23rd day update :D

So I'm aware that crazy stuff will be happening soon, BUT, my feels are more about troll romance, which is this really elaborate thing with various levels of relationships and how it's constantly changing and I love it.

That's what I wanted to say :P I'm a firm believer of troll romance and I totally look at relationships in a similar way - that there's a thin line between love and hate, or in Homestuck's case hate and pity, and it just makes sense. I can't even explain it.

On unrelated notes, the hospital was good! I answered a lot of call lights, which was exciting I guess! It was mostly me helping people to the bathroom or the bedside commode. I haven't wiped anyone yet, because other people have or the patient has themselves!

I'm going to do a patient care worksheet this week, so that's kind of exciting. Hopefully I'll be 2 for 3 by the time spring break is over and what not, because these need to be 95s before April! Next time, I'll start earlier so I can have a little more relax time at the end of the semester.

Exciting news! I did my first injection today :D It was a pneumonia vaccine and it was great. I don't think I did all that well, but it's a definite improvement from when I was like 14 and gave my cousin one of her insulin shots. I also gave a suppository! I washed my hands a million times, despite wearing gloves. I'm really glad the RN let me do all of that, especially considering it wasn't even my patient and he wasn't my RN for the day.

I got to see a picc line get put in!!!!! I had to gown up with the face mask and hair bonnet and I got to seeeeeeee it. A picc line is basically this tube that goes from your upper arm and it goes to your atria in the heart. That's a long ass tube! I saw the nurse find the right vein to go through with this crazy ultrasound machine for the arm! She had to poke a tiny, super long needle into the arm and then fed the needle into the tube. She SCALPELED his arm so the tube could go in! It was crazy. Then this blood started gushing out - it was a super dark red, almost blackish red.

Then I got to discontinue an IV site :D And Jennifer and I discontinued one together by ourselves!

I did a dressing change for my patient, which was nothing, but this one nurse tried showing me this other technique where you don't wear gloves and I was not a fan of the technique.

My patient was friendly and some of the stories she told me were really cool!

(Homestuck is making me feel ALL of the feelings for pairings that I've only been recently introduced to and I keep re-reading the conversation and feeling my soul fly out of my body)