May 7, 2002
Tuesday afternoon. I have to work tonight. Going back to work the first night is always the hardest. You don't know what to expect, what awaits you. What is the census? Are we going to be staffed adequately? Are all of my patients "oriented x 3" or are they going to start losing it in the middle of the night and begin trying to climb out of bed...or try to slug me. It usually turns out ok, but the anticipation really gets to me.
It's kind of lame. The most interesting things that happen to me usually take place at work and due to "patient confedentiality" I am really not supposed to talk about any of it. I often do relate little stories when I get home to Shane or to my family, for example, when one of my patient's said to me, "you sure are an ugly little thing, aren't you!" Of course, he was a little disoriented...at least I like to think he was. I also have related stories of things that have happened to me at work, such as, when one of the doctors I needed to talk to showed up and told one of the nurses to go into one of the rooms to get me. As I walked around the corner out of the room, he jumped out and scared me half to death. I nearly peed my pants (wouldn't have been a first). Yep, they still laugh about that one. I laugh with them, though. It's nice to work with at least one doctor who is decent. But a lot of the things I would like to talk about, or write about, I really can't. What if the BRN (Board of Registered Nurses) was to get ahold of my blog, with my name emblazoned across it!? So, hear I sit with very little to say. Of course, if I was able to relate my many amazing adventures from my long nights at French Hospital, they may not be all that interesting to anyone but me.
I finished Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood a little bit ago. I enjoyed it. Easy reading with a mother-daughter story that any girl can relate to and friendships every girl longs for. I can't imagine what it would be like to have such close, long time girlfriends. So close, they are like sisters. I don't even know what it is like to have a sister.
I have had to relationships in my life that I can think of where I had a friend that was like a sister. One was in 8th grade, Jennipher Dunn. We met each other in one of our classes, PE, I think. Everyone thought we were twins. We did look alike. We pretended we were cousins, that our mom's were twins. Everyone believed us. We were such good friends. We went camping together, had tea parties, we were so similar and could just be our little girl selves together even thought we were in eighth grade. Everyone else was trying to be so grown up and we would play mermaids in the swimming pool. It was so much fun...we were like sisters. She is also married now, to a professional football player, and a mother. She lives in Florida. We have gone our own ways, but still talk occasionally. When we do, it is like old times as if we never have been apart.
My second friendship was with Amanda Cunagin when I was in eleventh grade. She was in ninth grade at Fallbrook Union High School, but a year younger than me. We were drawn to each other the first time we met. I don't know why. We were and are so different. We met at church and really got to know each other on a week long trip to Mexico with our youth group (the same trip that I really got to know Shane). We are still good friends, living our own lives, and talking occasionally. But there are so many memories and good times that we have shared. There isn't really anyone presently in my life, in close proximity, that is like that to me right now. I guess I am lucky to have had two close girlfriends. And then there is Shane, who will forever be the best friend I have ever had. I wouldn't ever want to be without him. What a lucky girl I am.