I DID IT!
It is Official! I have passed the certification exam and am now a certified phlebotomist. Now the hard part begins ; finding a job! i am hoping i can be out of the mall by the time Christmas comes around. The past few weeks i have been doing my externship at the DMC Huron Valley Sinai Hospital in Commerce Michigan. its been fun but i am looking forward to being done. but at the same time i do not want it to end because it means that i will then have to go back to work at Hanes in the mall. Not having to deal with my boss stephanie for the past month has been heavenly. now the worst critic i have is myself. This morning i got a draw on a patient that was relatively difficult with out having to have any in put from my supervisor Lisa. Since i have started working with her i have picked up on different characteristcs that i do and do not want to incorporate into my own practice. first of all i am going to be much cleaner. for example This facility provides disposable tourniquets. it is wise to dispose of the tourniquet after each patient. However this is a practice that my supervisor does not follow. My fear is that something could be passed on from one patient to the next. In this building we have an Infectious disease doctor who treats all kinds of infections and diseases ranging from staph infections to HIV and other STDs. I dont know what kind of bodily fluids may be present on a patients skin. therefore i feel it is irresponsible to use the same tourniquet on another patient. She also does not wipe the draw chairs and carts down. this is something that i observed a couple other people do on a regular basis. i like that practice and have started to add that into my routine when i clean up after a patient leaves. that way i am protecting not only my patients but myself aswell. all of these issues seem like very simple things and i feel are easy enough to implement into my practices with inconveniencing anyone else. Charlie has started School. he is a kindergartner at Pine Knob Elementary school. he is the cutest kid alive! i am amazed to know that he has grown so much. it seems too soon to be sending him off to school. i just love feeling his arms wrapped around my neck. he loves to read books and his favorite things to do consist of riding his bike, scooter and playing outside. Every now and again we are able to go out to the farm and play with the ponies out there. he is so gentle and has a big heart when it comes to animals. He is alot like me in those ways. He loves to snuggle with our two cats, Oliver and Boomer. I aksed him the other day what he wanted to be when he grew up and he says he wants to be a police officer. he loves the lights and sirens. for a long time it was a firefighter that he wanted to be. we will have to see if he again changes his mind and to what. Kyle is still in school and kind of sortof limping along through his classes. However this semster he seems to have a new resolve that he is going to get through and do well. I am proud of all that he has done so far. We got to looking and adding things up. We checked into BYU - Idaho and figured out that it would be $10,000 CHEAPER if we were to move out to Idaho and Kyle finish his electrical engineering degree out there. It is a HUGE move and will take alot of courae for kyle to be able to move that far away from his mom and family. But we will also be gaining my side of the family if we were to move. My Sister Erica and her husband Jeremy are out there and the rest of my extended family on my moms side. we would be more on our own out there and it woulf force us to be smarter with out finances and how me manage daily life as a family. i have faith that the Lord would help us provide and be successful if this is what we are supposed to do. For now i need to out my computer away and get ready to leave for my lunch break. Hello to anyone out there who may be reading this. and good bye again for awhile.