new blog name

Can anyone help me to come up with a blog name less uh... rude? I really do love what I do as a nurse and as a PCA and it has been weighing on me a lot lately to come up with a different blog title. Anyone creative? Aly, Ethan, Val?

Kathy copy Kathy

It's coming to the end of my second day here at Sharptop. I haven't had too many opportunities just yet to deal with medical issues. There is another EMT intern (Nate) here as well. He's a sweet little guy who is going to nursing school who is even less confident in his skills than I. He has been getting most of the action because people know him from being here all week. I kind of got up here in the middle of work week, and am just starting to get to know names of people. There was a girl last night that came up to me and the other EMT during dinner and told us someone had gotten seriously burned in the kitchen and we needed to come back there immediately. So we dropped our forks and rushed back to see her. The girl barely had 5 splotchy spots on her forearm. I told her to rub some burn cream on that baby and get back to work. LOL. Then this morning Nate came up to me after breakfast and asked me if I knew anything about fractures. He told me his plan of action with the kid and I said sounds good. He seemed to manage just fine. I know I am lacking in confidence, but I most defintely know how to serve him this summer. By just building him up. He knows his stuff, just lacks confidence. I worked HARD today. After breakfast I helped rake the trails and the entire ropes course area, move rocks to make the trails look better for 4 hours. Then after lunch became in charge of my own crew of boys and spent 2 hours cleaning cobwebs from EVERY corner in camp. It was fun, let me tell you! So now I'm sitting here for all of my 5 min of break at "home" aka SouthFork and resting my feet. Oh, dinner is soon. I better get a shower.

SharpTop... I made it!!!

I AM HERE! After a long long week of packing my apartment and moving all of my stuff, some back to my parents house and the rest at my friend Nikki's house I was ready to get the heck out of Gainesville, but nervous as a mo' fo to start real life as a nurse. I met some of the interns I'll be living and working with the next 3 months and I'm very excited so far. More updates later bc my roommates are trying to sleep. Don't want to start off on the wrong foot the first night.

Now what?

I've graduated and moved on up in the world and officially accepted the role and title of "adult". They always say at age 18 you are considered by law an adult, but I think that it's insanely too young to be considered an adult. I'm 22 and not sure I want to accept the full responsibility of claiming to be an adult. I seem to have mentioned this concept a lot in recent blogs. Maybe there is some sort of fear I have linked to it..?
The month of May seems to be going by rather quickly and has also been full of many emotional roller-coaster rides already. It's been very hard for me to have not heard from Shands about a job. It was something everyone told me was a sure thing, so I think I believed them. It has been hard for me to share in the joy when my friends get 3 or 4 offers and get to choose their top choice out of the group of offers they received. It's been hard not to take it personally. I was given all of the steps for the best way of finding a job as a nurse, and I took every single one of them, yet things have not worked out the way I have planned. Though I've been given this AMAZING opportunity to be camp nurse at SharpTop, I can't help but to be curious and concerned for what is going to happen come August and summer is gone. One day I say, screw Shands! God has better for me! Then the next day, I still wonder "WHY NOT ME?"
This week is a crazy one. I have to: move all of my furniture and belongings to multiple places for storage, pick up a friend from the airport and somewhat entertain her, laundry, pack for camp, work three 12 hour shifts, babysit for a friend (don't worry Aly- this is part of my week I'm looking forward to!), and get some good quality time with my roommate before I leave for 3 months and never live with her again. Ok so that's only some of the stuff on my "to do" list. It's a very long list. I leave for SharpTop the night of the 19th, or early early morning of the 20th.

I got pinned!

I DID IT!!! I made it through the ceremony without even one tear! Well that's all I wanted to say! Smell ya later!