War Eagle Moment

This past week as I am charting in the ICU I had a doctor walk in and sit next to me. Being just the Intern I turned around and asked if he needed my chart. He noticed my little Auburn badge and immediately said "War Eagle"! As you can imagine I was thrilled and responded with a very strong "War Eagle". I felt like I had just become best friends with the Neurologists. We proceeded to talk for about the next 30 minutes.

Then today as I was running a car passed me with an Auburn tag. I rarely see tags with Auburn on them in Starkville. Over the past few weeks I have missed my Auburn friends, Auburn teachers, and many things about Auburn. Granted I love my life now and were the Lord has me. But Auburn was a great blessing!

Becoming a Morning Person....

Believe it or not but this is what my alarm clock reads Monday-Thursday mornings. I have never been a morning person but I am slowly learning to accept that if I want to get everything accomplished in a day I must get up at this hour. I have found that if I snooze for 3-5 minutes then it makes getting up a whole lost easier. By the time 5:30am roles around I am usually at ....


The Sanderson Center!
This is MSU's really nice student activities center. I absolutely love it! It is one of things that it beats Auburn on (there are not many but this is one). I spend about the next 30 minutes or so working out. Then I have just enough time to meet the girls for our drive to Tupelo at 6:30am.

So by 6:30am I am feeling very productive because I have worked out, showered, and at least somewhat awake. But this early rising does have it downside... I am normally moving towards bed at 9:30pm and have the light off around 10pm.

The Heart Monitor

For the past 48 hours I have had the joy of wearing this little monitor. I could not shower (sponge baths are not fun and washing the hair from the side of the bathtube is awful), it was a pain to wear with jeans, and this only names of few of the troubles that I have gone to over the past 48 hours.

So you might be asking why I was wearing one of these little devices. On Monday morning I was interning with the renal dietitian. We were standing by the nurse's station reading over charts. Kerrianne (the dietitian) was pouring knowledge into me so I was trying soak up every word she was saying. Not really sure when I started feeling bad but I started getting dizzy and really hot. I finally told Kerrianne that I thought that I needed to sit down. Well I took about two steps toward a chair that I thought that I saw. Needless to say, I did not make it to the chair. I ended up on the floor and when I came back to I had about ten nurse's taking my blood pressure, blood sugar, and temperature, and I can't count the number of times they asked if I was pregnant (I mean really??). After spending four hours in the ER, having blood drawn, EKG, and failing a pregnancy test they let me go. But they made me wear this heart monitor because they wanted to make sure that my heart was ok. I kinda thought that the whole thing was a little over kill. My heart is fine I am sure.