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Fun with texting

IMG_4361It all started a couple of days ago when I got a text from Emily (keep in mind she’s a college graduate who is in PT school currently) that said what if it’s       sir rye oh sis. (I can’t remember how to spell it). Allyson sees this text at the same time I did and said tell Emily she is worse at spelling than I am. Even I, CR the worst speller in the world can spell psoriasis. This is most likely due to the fact it is a medical term but who cares I can spell it.

So last night I screen shot the text and send it to Meg who cracks up laughing and then texts me back Dis funk shun al. Now we had just had an argument/discussion about how a dictionary is not helpful for those of us who cannot spell. She still owns one and I do not. So then the next words I get is Dick shun ary and Thu sar us. So even though it’s close to midnight I have to screen shot these conversations and send them to Emily. And so the picture is what I get back from Emily. I was cracking up! So we moles are easily entertained and now you have an idea of what we do for fun!

 

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Don’t go to work

This morning I looked at the schedule and they were five away from needing me so once I again I thought to myself score I won’t be needed until three (I’m trying to baby my foot, normally I am wanting to work every day at 11) and once again I was wrong. There were 8 early surgeries so I went in at normal time. As I was getting ready to leave Allyson says to me can’t you stay home and take care of me? I said I was home all day yesterday doesn’t that count? Apparently not. So I told her I had to go in but I was off tomorrow and get ready to go swimming suit shopping. She needs a one piece for Big Stuf. She only agreed to this by stating she was getting a new Nintendo 3ds game. So I said ok why not. I mean after all I’m back at work so might as well spend all the money. Hahahaha.

IMG_4357Today was a high carb day. I felt this is pretty doable until I realized Big Stuf is like two weeks away and the food down there is basically high carb kid food. This could be tough but if I plan out ahead of time, I might just be able to pull it off. After I got home from work I realized my Piyo (its pilates and yoga combined) did not arrive via Fed X like it was supposed to so I went to tracking. Are you ready for this. It shipped from Grove City OH to Martinsburg WV and then back to Grove City OH and then to Earth City MO and now is currently at the Arnold Post office. Says it should be here in two days. I have considered doing a poll with the choices it will be here never, in six months and maybe a month. This makes me wonder where the insurance claim is on Emily’s book. Let me go check that out so I can get worked up again! No movement on the claim of course and I am sure the package is still saying its in the Arnold post office. So I have my doubts the Piyo will ever make it here. However I can’t do it just yet. Today at work was not nearly as bad as last week. My limp is so much better and my foot wasn’t throbbing after an hour. So hopefully soon I will be back to normal. Ok normal doesn’t really exist in my world. How about a normal kind of crazy!

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Just call me red

IMG_4348Today was get my old lady gray hair done at the hair place. I arrive and Hollie says what do you want to do with your hair? I said I don’t care. She says do you want to go extreme red or something like that. I said sure let me go to the bathroom. When I return she is having a conversation with Kandace who always has cool hair about how to do this. Well it turns out it will be a two color process. Because I swear I have all gray hair underneath this mess she has to do the roots with one color. That sat for 45 minutes. Then she cut my hair and dried it. My roots were fiery red and the rest of the hair was like a brown color. Then color number two happened and 45 minutes later I ended up with this awesome red color. Hollie said it’s so everyone can find the nurse at Big Stuf next week. My appointment was at noon so I told my mom come over by two, my hair won’t take that long, I’m not that ugly. So when I walked up to the front porch at 2:30 I said I guess I am uglier than I realized. Yes I said it before she had a chance to say it. The apple doesn’t fall far from the cart. I know it’s the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree but one day when texting Meg I said the cart and she died laughing. And for total proof of this I posted on Facebook today that I got the letter that Kayla has been kicked out of the pediatric practice. Kayla says she’s never leaving Dr. Sato. So my mom responds  hurry up and have a baby Kayla and you won’t have to leave him.

IMG_4352After complaining about my foot yesterday and wanting to hack it off, it did not hurt until five this evening. I was walking this morning and forgot I had even had surgery because I was pain-free. That was so nice and gave me hope that this chapter in my life might soon be over. I followed low carb today and let me just say can’t wait for high carb tomorrow. I think I can handle it every other day. It’s the first time ever my nutrition chart was even for protein,carbs and fats. (Usually it’s 60% carbs) I made it on the exercise bike for thirty minutes today. I tried watching prison porn for a while and finally said screw it and scrolled on Facebook. Now that I have this bright funky red hair, I’m staying out of the pool. Don’t want the chlorine fading this. Because after all as Brian always says “Better dead than red!”

 

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Noise has entered my quiet retreat weekend

Well the rest of the Moles arrived home in shifts. Kayla had driven separately with her friend Rachel and she was home long enough to stink up the hall bathroom and then leave for a graduation swim party. Allyson and Brian arrived a couple hours later and the dog and I were quite happy to see them. They had a nice weekend. Allyson brought one of her friends and they spent a lot of time fishing. They went both Friday and Saturday night by boat to watch fireworks. Everyone seemed to have a great time.

They asked me what I did. I said nothing and it was heavenly. I watched some recorded TV uninterrupted. My dad suggested two new shows. One is The Night Shift which is on channel 5 and almost over for the season. I had to watch the first four episodes on the computer. I have two left on DVR and there are two episodes left after that. He also suggested Chasing Life on abc family. It recently started so I watched all four episodes of that show and it is awesome. At church today my dad said he could suggest a lot more shows to waste time on. I was sad that Nurse Jackie on showtime has already ended. I swear they only made 8 episodes this year. I started watching Catfish as well. I cannot believe how many people believe the person they are talking to are real and honest. Then again am I? Unless you really know me this whole entire blog could be total bullshit.

It was nice to have my computer when I wanted it. I also read Chris Powells new book and am looking forward to changing up my diet. After three years I have gotten into the rut of eating the exact same stuff and I’m bored with it and it is no longer working. I also start a 21 day challenge tomorrow with a friend from high school. It’s a group thing with a bunch of people. He made me do my measurements and I made him swear he would not put them on the internet. After that I kind of felt like a manly man. I am in desperate need of a waist! BAHAHAHAHA.

I am starting back on exercise tomorrow after five weeks off. I was really hoping to be able to either do Jillian killer buns and thighs or my new Piyo DVD that isn’t here yet. My foot is bad today, so that is a pipe dream. I will ride the exercise bike in the basement instead. Today I must have been walking on the outside of my foot because it hurts worse than the incision side. This seems to be a never ending nightmare. I try not to complain too much but feel like I am constantly wining and complaining. I really wish I would have just hacked the thing off. Ok I know that is really extreme and I am full of crap but this is taking forever. I think of my one friend who had it done. I swear she was back at work at three weeks and took one vicodin. Here I am at five weeks, still needing a 1/2 a percocet after work or too much activity and thinking it will never be better. After I had my hysterectomy I was having horrible left sided pain. I had a CT scan and then Dr. Veronikis told me he wanted me to come to his office. That was the day he told me my pathology on my uterus came back bad and he had already called Dr. Chobanian. Before he left the room he asked if he could do anything for me. I looked at him dead serious and said “Could you just get a gun and shoot me.” OMG the look on his face, I will never forget but he told me he couldn’t. If he only would have done has I wished. My dang foot wouldn’t be an issue but I would have missed a lot of stuff with my girls so I guess it’s a good thing he didn’t listen to me.

Tomorrow is a new day. I am off and getting my hair done. Maybe I will go up to the rec center and resume my membership. It was up the end of April and since I knew I was having surgery I did not renew. Now is the time.

 

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Home alone and prison porn

prisonerIt has been a very quiet day for me. I stayed up last night until two am playing stupid candy crush. I thought to myself why not. After all, it’s just me and the dog and I promised myself I would stay off of my foot so I had nowhere to go today. Except of course the gas station to get my coffee. I haven’t watched Prisoner Cell Block H in at least six weeks. A bunch of stuff happened and then I got really busy with graduation and surgery. So today I was going to scrapbook and watch at the same time. I didn’t last five minutes scrapbooking. I couldn’t find the cricut cartridge I was looking for and not in the mood to search all over the house so I said screw it and just watched the show. Brian loves to call it prison porn and if I watch it on my phone while he is trying to watch TV he will yell random things like tell the prison bitches to shut up, or tell them their riot will not work.

My foot doesn’t hurt as bad today as yesterday but it is still swollen and my arch touches the ground when I walk if I don’t have it wrapped. Now that is just the most bizarre feeling in the world. I have iced today as well. One day this foot will be back to normal. My dad called and my bike is ready, so tomorrow I will venture out to his house and pick it up. Maybe I will even go for a short ride since the weather is nice. Not sure how that will feel on my foot though. I am planning on resuming exercising on Monday. Not exactly sure how that will look but I know I will post about it.

Now back to peace and quite and a little bit of prison. Happy 4th of July to all. The fireworks are just starting down in good old Jefferson County!

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Pay it forward

quarterToday I went to Ugas to get my morning coffee. I have seriously considered given up this habit and using the money for something else. However, nothing compares to the concoction I whip up there so I just can’t seem to quit it. I suppose it’s better than smoking. Anyway Allyson asked me to get her flaming hot cheetos. Yep that would be her breakfast. Chalk me up for parent of the year! So I bring in a five dollar bill and four pennies. That way no matter what the total, I wouldn’t be getting pennies back or even worse the cashier giving me a nickel back instead. (Ok we all know I have weird issues). So she rings it up and it’s 5.29. I said well crap let me go get a quarter out of the car. She says go ahead and take it, I know you will be back. So I dig out a quarter and I am about to walk back in and this guy says hey I paid your quarter, don’t worry about it. Then says this way you don’t have to go back in. I thanked him and I was so surprised and happy by his kindness. My foot was pretty happy too because it knew it was soon up for shift number three.

Not too long after this Emily texts me because she cannot get her paper to attach to her email. She bought herself a Mac before she started PT school and had written a paper in pages. She was finally able to attach it in her non Rockhurst email but then she couldn’t open it. So her friend had her save it in google. I had a bunch of frustrated texts. Next text I get is she can’t get it to print because the internet is down. So she heads over to wherever they print stuff at Rockhurst and is out of print points. She  must have given them a sob story of sorts because they gave her five dollars worth of print points for free. And to top it off you can only buy them with cash.  I really can’t lie in the fact that I was kind of cracking up because I can see so much of myself in her. She wasn’t about to let it go until she figured it out. It’s a good thing and a bad thing to be like this. So I told her at the lake this weekend to hit her dad up for a twenty. He has a whole wallet full of them and if he throws too big of a fit, I would reimburse him when he returns.

I survived my first week back at work. My foot is swollen and hurting but I am now on four days of rest. I asked the second year resident if any of the first year residents were single. He said are you single? I said no I’m married. (I just haven’t worn my rings in forever because they are way too big. I’m paranoid if I get them made smaller, I will gain my weight back again I know I have issues.) So he tells me one guy is single. Another girl asked him his age and he said 28. I said yeah I’m old enough to be all of you residents mother so let me kill myself. Hahaha. I told him I wanted to know so that when the single girls I work with ask me, I will know the answer. Not only am I “smarter than I look”, I seem to know almost everything. I am just in the right place at the right time.

 

 

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You are smarter than you look!

Some time ago at work someone asked me about the new rules for PCA pumps and where I saw it at. So I told the nurse buddy of mine where to go to find it. It was right where I said it was and she looked at me and said “you are smarter than you look!” I cracked up and my nurse buddies and I have been using this for a while now. Here are a few examples.

Emily texts me about PT check outs today and said she couldn’t find the femoral pulse. I reply its hard to find and you have to push really hard. She responded my teacher said the same thing. I said that’s because I’m smarter than I look.

The recovery room called me to tell me that they had changed pain medication to 4mg of Dilaudid IVP. I said are you sure the doctor didn’t mean either .4mg of Dilaudid or 4mg of morphine? “No” she says, she read it back twice to the doctor and he agreed. So I said to her I will call him when the patient arrives to the floor because there is no way anyone would give that amount. I mean the max I (the one with 10 years burn unit experience) would give is 1mg of dilaudid. So after I relay this to my co-workers of the day, I get a call back saying that said nurse called the doctor back and I was indeed right. Of course I was because I am smarter than I look.

I get a text message picture from a friend of her child with angry hives. I respond those may need steroids. She then tells me that’s exactly what her nurse practitioner friend said. I had to say it, I am smarter than I look.

I had a lot of fun with the new GYN resident whose name happens to be Paul Dixon. I know a guy with the same name from South Africa. I will have to tell that story at another time. I was talking about my sister-in-law and how she can get Best Buy to drop the price down and I said she should have been a Jew. Then I say to him oh if you are Jewish, I didn’t mean to offend you. He said no worries he’s Catholic. I said oh great I am non denominational but everyone else at the nurses station was Catholic. I told him I was a rebel. This was after I had introduced myself and said I’ve been a nurse since Jesus was a small boy so if you have any questions I should know the answer. So he asked me where the bathroom was. I pointed to it and said I know where every bathroom in St. Louis is. Followed by I had Dr. Veronikis surgery three years ago, so it’s no longer an issue. I am sure that by the time he left he was convinced I was crazy. Hence back to the living up to my nickname CR.

One more shift of working and then I am off for four days. It will be rest my swollen foot and even use ice. I am getting adventurous with the ice.

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My first day back

Womens healthFinally July 1 has arrived. Not only was it my first day back to work, it was also new OB/GYN residents day. Always a fun and challenging time. I cannot imagine having one week orientation and then thrown into hospital life and expected to know everything. I decided that since I have been a nurse since Jesus was a small boy, that I will be a resource to the new kids this year. I met the day and night gyn first year. Both seem nice and so young. But I am not old! Hahaha.

So I looked at the census last night and said oh five patients away from needing me, I won’t be working till 3. As soon as I said that to Meg, I said I just screwed myself. And sure enough when I called at 10 to see if I was needed charge nurse said yes come on in. I was excited to go in and take new surgeries but was unsure how my foot would hold up. The surgeries were great and I really enjoyed the patents today. However, my foot within two hours was saying you should have listened to Dr. Anderson and took another two weeks off. I still cannot figure out how a couple people were back at work at three weeks. Even if I wore my boot, I would not have been able to stand it last week. It makes me feel like a big old baby but then I think I am too hard on myself. So I came home took 1/2 a pain pill and slapped ice on it. I am so non compliant with ice that using it speaks volumes!

I was talking about nursing boards at the desk. I said when did they start calling it NCLEX instead of state boards. When I graduated NCLEX was a voluntary class you could take to study for boards. It was $200 back in 1988 and I opted to skip it and study on my own. So one of my co-workers looked at me and said when it went to computer it was changed to NCLEX because thats the program that administers it. I asked when was that. She looked at me and said when Jesus became a young adult. I cracked up laughing. I am not sure which is worse, they changed the name or the fact I didn’t realize it until this year when Emily was telling me that her friend Kaitlin had taken NCLEX.

I am scheduled the next two days. If they call me off from 11-3 I will not complain. If they need me I will tell my foot to FOAG and work. It was really nice to be out of the house today!