My Week In Retrospect

Today is Saturday and I am sitting here at work in the facility trying to figure out what to do. I already did all my stuff so basically right now I have nothing else to do. I decided to blog recalling all the happenings I've had this week. And here I go......

Monday started a bit right. I got out of work at the facility from my graveyard shift the previous night. I am off that day so I basically traded my very precious day off for a longer and relaxing sleep and rest. I went home very tired so I went to sleep calmly and deeply right after I walked Diamond outside for an exercise as well as to relieve her from boredom because I left her for the whole night at the apartment.

Diamond was been growing up good these days. She was super hyperactive now and was been ripping her toys out so well. She was very well trained now especially with her voiding and pooping problems. She can poop and pee at the designated trainer pads and I don't have to pick up the debris anywhere else. Unlike when she came at the apartment first time, that was really problematic.

So the whole day on Monday, I basically didn't do anything because I just wanted to recoup my energy from working three nights straight of graveyard shifts. Even one day of extended sleeping all the way through did not suffice my energy. I still needed more hours to sleep and recuperate. Plus I was not been feeling well last Monday because I think I was brewing with a flu. And I don't have energy to move at all.

I woke up in the late afternoon with Diamond heavily snoring at my side. She was cute and very huggable breathing heavily with her chinky eyes closed and her funny ratlike ears fanning upwards. I am content now because I have a companion in person of Diamond. I am very glad that I decided to adopt a doggie. It was very helpful in easing my loneliness. A good buffer indeed!

Tuesday was quite a little bit sow and lazy. I woke up late close to noon then I finally decided to leave the house. I went to shower after I woke up then changed and left the house. I decided to go to school in Torrance to pick up my paycheck and at the same time pick up some attendance sheets for my clinicals and drop off some of the corrected clinical paperworks of the students from the clinical setting.

After staying a while at the school I then left and deposited my check at the nearby Wells Fargo ATM center near Crenshaw then decided to watch a movie at Rolling Hills Mall since I am just near there at that moment. I parked my car at the mall and headed to buy a ticket at the theater booth for the movie "Lincoln." I still have one-hour-and-a-half time left before the movie starts so I decided to eat first since I have enough time.

I went to "Fishbonze" and ordered a grilled cajun mahi-mahi over rice with coleslaw and a piece of French bread with a lemonade drink. The plate was very delicious and I got full after that. It was a very hearty meal indeed!

I went into the theater and looked for the stadium and waited for the movie to start. The movie was not that good. It was very slow and dragging. I think I fell asleep in the middle of it. When the movie ended I have no idea what it is and all I can remember was Daniel Day-Lewis's "Lincoln" replica. I was stoned maybe. Hahaha...

After the movie I felt hungry again so I decided to eat tasty ribs this time. I went to the nearby "Joe's BBQ Cafe" and ordered the yummy "Texas Longhorn Ribs with sweet-spicy sauce." It was massive but I didn't care. I finished it with clean bones and it was very good and yummy. I was stuffed afterwards. I went home driving from Torrance to West Hollywood with a full stomach and I got home late that night anticipating my clinicals in the morning.

Wednesday had sparked my week to be super hectic because it's the first day of my clinical class. I woke up early and headed to Rosecrans Care Center where we are having our rotation for this month. After consigning with the charge nurse I took all the MARs that we have to cover and started the pre-conference.

I reminded the students about the Infection Control Policy and the HIPAA Policy which I always reiterated to them every week. I also gave them some insructions about observing proper profesionalism and had also tackled to them their requirements and assignments for the whole week. I gave them their respective MARs and told them to do their respective drug studies.

Today we were assigned with eight G-tube residents and we started early after Damaris had given all her resident's meds. We finished at almost noon after we did the blood sugar fingersticks for the diabetic residents. We went to lunch at Subway together with the whole group and we were having a lot of fun there especially with Christopher, Christian, and Nicole. Thanks to Christopher for giving us a ride on his compact blue Lexus car.

At 1300H we convened back at the facility for the post coference where I gave them some practice exercise about care plans and also some NCLEX questions for their current subject which is "Fluids and Electrolytes." We left the facility at around 1500H.

I went home tired but I felt really good. Before going home I passed by at the salon for my manicure and pedicure. Time to have a little bit of vanity. Actually I really need it because my foot nails are very long and looks icky alreaady.

Thursday was also the same as Wednesday. I assigned the students the same residents as the previous day for continuity of care and at the same time for them to really know the resident's diagnosis and medications as well as established and familiarized their routine for that specific resident. I told them that they gonna take care of their own resident for three days until Friday. I also assigned two students to follow the wound care nurse to do the wound treatments.

We finished our med pass close to lunchtime after we did the fingerstick blood sugar for all the diabetic residents in the East Station. I went with the same group (Christopher, Christian, and Nicole) for lunch and at this time we went to Jack in the Box. We have so much fun with our conversation there when a bum guy popped up from somewhere giving us some horrible comic jokes. We gave him some coins for that and he just kept going on laying us some of his horrid jokes.

Our post-conference mainly consists of baby care plan and some pointers about pharmacology. I also tested them about "Fluids and Electrolytes" and we culminated our post-coference at 1500H. Driving home was a struggle because the traffic was very bad at that time. I got home very tired so I slept a little bit. I didn't even know what Diamond was been doing during that time but when I woke up I saw her beside me sleeping and scooting on my left armpit. It was a very funny site I guess.

Friday was kind of dragging maybe because it is the last day of the working weekdays as well as it was sporadically raining outside. We kept the same assignment and I was testing the students about their drugs at the cart side and then asked them a lot of questions about their resident's diagnosis and treatment regimen.

We finished medicating roughly very early at 1130H and I went to lunch with CCN (Christopher, Christian, and Nicole.) We went to McDonald's at this time and we stayed there after our time to go backto the facility was almost over. After we ate we were discussing about sex and we were making fun about it. That was the most hilarious moment I've had had with the three of them and I never imagined it that way.

We wrapped up our post-conference with a math test and the students looks very tired at that moment. I also asked them to gave me a baby care plan about burns. We left the facility at around 1500H.

At 1900H I went to work at the facility and it was the start of my night time work in the nursing home as a RN Supervisor. It was a very hectic night, considering it was my first day. There were orders left undone by the previous shift so I have to continue where the supervisor had left and finish it as per protocol. The night was very busy but it was uneventful I guess. No untoward incidents had happened, thank God.

I went home the next day, Saturday, nibbled a little bread for breakfast and then went to sleep with my dog after I walked her outside for an exercise and walk. I had a good sleep and I woke up at 1600H preparing and ironing my scrub for the night's work.

So far my Saturday night was good and here I am blogging off myself recalling all the week's activities and happenings. It was a good week indeed despite of some minor obstacles but I guess it was quite a memorable week to me. The week is not finish yet because tomorrow, Sunday, will be another special day.

This Sunday will be the start of the weeklong Chinese New Year celebration in downtown Los Angeles and I am planning to go to Chinatown tomorrow to see how it is to celebrate the New Year. It will b emy first time there for this kind of event. I heard all the area will be covered in "red", a lucky color for the Chinese. "Kung Hei Phat Choi!"

So tomorrow I will bring Diamond for a vet check-up to ask for an approval for her spay surgery sometime this month. I hope it will be okayed. I will also be meeting a very special guy and friend, "Antonio Biaggi" whom I always admire as a porn star. I will ask him to sign some of the pictures I've been hoarding and keeping, for me to show to my friends that I actually meet this handsome and nice porn celebrity. He will meet me at San Vicente Inn at West Hollywood tomorrow. Can't wait to see this very awesome guy.

Can't also wait what will happen and awaits for me for tomorrow. Whatever it is..... I am thankful already to God about it. Life is always good to me, yeah.....