* paged at 4:30 am to attend a birth. Four hours later it was all said and done and I was on my way home ( Read more... )

Vacation started this morning. It was heavenly to wake up quietly, instead of being jolted out of sleep by the chirping of my phone ( Read more... )

* as of tonight I'm off for a week. So relieved to not be on call. I might even just turn my phone OFF ( Read more... )

Summer has passed by in a blur of moving boxes and September has crept up on me much faster than usual this year. A year ago from now I was in Toronto starting the IMPP, feeling so much stress, fear, and sadness but also HOPE. And here I am a year later, registered and working as a midwife in my own province, living in a new house and preparing ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I last posted because life has been busy; I keep typing and deleting trying to explain what the pace has been like and words just don't do it. So, in true brain-dump form, bullets ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard time putting my thoughts together to write about yesterday.  It was sort of fun, I learned a lot, I'm glad to get started on this (I think), and it's scary as hell. The amount of information we were given was un-believable; I took 12 pages of hastily written notes and ran out of ink in my pen.  Yeah.

I fell apart after skyping with ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for my roomie to arrive late from the airport - watching The Blind Side while randoming looking up things in my textbooks as they come to mind.  Four auscultatory areas of the newborn heart, thyroid exam, normal blood values, ESW.....

Getting into dry clothes this afternoon was marvelous, but my jacket is still hanging in the shower in ( Read more... )

I  spent about 5 hours reading sociology stuff then decided to go for a walk to Starbucks, sip something cool and read my book.  It was much hotter out than I thought it would be and very humid (it was 28 but felt like 36 with the humidity)  I was across the street from where Starbucks was, noticed I would have to walk another block or two to cross ( Read more... )

It was a late night last night - I refused to go to bed until one of my assignments was done.  It was a good idea until my alarm went off at 6 a.m.

I was at my desk working before 7 a.m. Checking lab charts was a blur of CBC, UKE, LFT, ECG, ESR, CRP....*yawn*.  It was such an early morning because I had to leave work early for an appointment in the ( Read more... )

Work today - I did accomplish things but felt very fuzzy-headed.  I blame it on staying up late to try and finish the last book of the Hunger Games trilogy.  My co-worker and I moaned and muttered as we worked on stats reports and charts, and laughed as we shared some of our favorite moments from Mike & Molly.  I'm almost always alone in my office ( Read more... )