Yesterday, thanks to a good friend I realized the obvious. I am blessed to have a wonderful, loving husband (duh, right?), four great kids (duh again), a wonderfully rewarding career that touches many lives everyday and those lives touch and shape me daily and teaches me something new each day. Finally, I am surrounded with some of the most awesome friends and coworkers that lift me up and support me everyday! Thank you dear friend for clearing my head and my vision, I am truly blessed to have you in my life!
Today I am looking forward to focusing my day on my son Brandon and seeing and spending some quality time with my daughter Jackie! We will be completing some last minute Christmas shopping and enjoying a much needed relaxing lunch! Tomorrow a wonderful day with my husband in Richmond with lunch at Bottoms Up!
Merry Christmas to you all! My wish for you all, that you may be able to see the many blessings in your lives!
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Jackie's bridal showerI
This is Jackie
Jackie and Amanda, maid of honor
That's me and my girl Jackie
3 generations that's Tia (my aunt) Me, Jackie and my mom
Stacey (brides maid), Jackie, Amanda, Stephanie (brides maid and Stacey's twin)
Friday, October 12, 2012
Overwhelmed
My daughter Jackie's wedding day is fast approaching and trying to get all the last minute things that need to be done is overwhelming me! I have less than 2 weeks before her bridal shower and I still have so much to do. Ten days after that is her wedding day! My beautiful daughter is going to be a wife. How the years have flown in the blink of an eye. Starting a new job at this hectic time has been a challenge along with returning to school, my cup runs over. Today I am off to pick up Brandon's suit for the wedding, alterations are complete! I must pick up items needed for the shower and try to finish purchasing the gifts I want for her. This requires a trip to the lingerie shop. I hope I can find something without a trip to Priscilla's not only do I find it difficult to walk in to that store but it is quite a drive from the sleepy town of Farmville. Alas I must do what I must!
Thursday, September 27, 2012
New job!
Just a quick note to about a new job! So happy to announce I am working in telemetry, medical, surgical once again! The staff has been so wonderfully welcoming! I am in the process of orientation to the hospital and begin my orientation to the floor next week!
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
2 years as an RN
Wow! I truly can not believe it has been 2 years since graduating from RN school. I have had many ups and downs in this career choice and yet many more ups than downs. I doubted myself in the beginning much more than I should have. I have decided it is time to return to school for my BSN. It will be even more difficult this time around working full time and attending classes. However; I am determined! Here is to the next chapter!
For the ones always looking for bad things to happen
(I worked on this last summer and early fall not able to share it at the time)
This is for those of you that come here to read all the bad things that happen in my life. Over the last few years I've tried so very hard to stay positive, to thank God daily and try to remember that things will get better soon. Over the last 2 weeks this has been so very hard. Bob and I had planned a beautiful, fun vacation for our family in Myrtle Beach. We worked very hard to put together a vacation with a condo on the ocean front, days of fun filled activities for a week long vacation we have not had in many years.
Everything was coming together so smoothly we just knew this was going to be the best vacation we had ever had. Our drive down was peaceful with a stop at South of the Border. We had tons of fun trying on hats.
We continued our drive to our MB condo, unpacked and enjoyed a nice evening walk along the beach with Brandon. The following morning was Brandon's birthday. We had him pick a restaurant for the breakfast of his choice. He picked an awesome pancake house where he had a huge stack of banana pancakes ( just had to add Jack Johnson in on that topic) at the
Golden Griddle Pancake house.
We returned to our condo to open up Brandon's birthday gifts, a Wii with a boat load of new games.
Bob and I left for Barefoot Landing to find Bob some sunglasses. We had just found a pair when I received a phone call from Linda that she thinks she broke Nickie's left leg. Now I'm thinking to myself this can't be, she couldn't have done that, there has to be a mistake. Bob and I drive back to the condo and I take a look at Nickie's leg and though it looked bad I kept praying it was not broken. We drove the 13 miles to the Grand Strand Hospital (this took nearly 40 minutes). Fortunately we were seen quickly, unfortunately the x-rays showed a left femur fracture. This required surgery that this hospital could not perform. It was suggested we transport Nickie to the Medical University of South Carolina, a level one trauma unit, 90 miles away. Nickie was transported via ambulance with Linda as a passenger. Bob, Brandon and I had to return to the condo to pack up, it was late when we were done and with the suggestion from one of the hospital staff that we should wait till morning to make the 2.5 hour drive because some of the areas were questionable during daylight hours it was not advisable to drive at night.
After Nickie's arrival, Linda called to say her surgery would take place the following morning. Her surgery was postponed for several days and to my surprise the reason was due to having 90 percent of the surgical staff away at a conference. Had this information been shared with us prior to transport we would have chosen to transport Nickie back to Richmond where her orthopedist could perform the much needed surgery. After several talks with the chief of orthopedic surgery we were finally able to have the surgery performed on Wed. The very special hardware that was necessary for this surgical repair had to be shipped from Colorado. Nickie was able to be discharged to home on Friday. It was a very long 9 hour drive home due to the need to stop frequently to provide pain management, position changes, etc. We finally made it home and in a couple of days Nickie runs a temp of 102 degrees. We had her assessed and found out she had an infection in the incision. It was determined that she would have to have another surgery to remove the infection. All I could think was Nickie has gone through so much why was this happening? She spends several days at the PICU at St. Mary's Hospital and has a PICC line inserted to battle the infection. She is discharged and goes home with the PICC line for many doses of IV antibiotics for several weeks. My baby girl suffers tremendously trying to fight this infection. Weeks turn into months before the infection is cleared and the Picc line removed. She has made a full recovery and praise God has returned to her old self! I must admit I lost my way and began to doubt in God during this time. Thanks to some wonderful friends with encouraging words I found my way back.
This is for those of you that come here to read all the bad things that happen in my life. Over the last few years I've tried so very hard to stay positive, to thank God daily and try to remember that things will get better soon. Over the last 2 weeks this has been so very hard. Bob and I had planned a beautiful, fun vacation for our family in Myrtle Beach. We worked very hard to put together a vacation with a condo on the ocean front, days of fun filled activities for a week long vacation we have not had in many years.
Everything was coming together so smoothly we just knew this was going to be the best vacation we had ever had. Our drive down was peaceful with a stop at South of the Border. We had tons of fun trying on hats.
We continued our drive to our MB condo, unpacked and enjoyed a nice evening walk along the beach with Brandon. The following morning was Brandon's birthday. We had him pick a restaurant for the breakfast of his choice. He picked an awesome pancake house where he had a huge stack of banana pancakes ( just had to add Jack Johnson in on that topic) at the
Golden Griddle Pancake house.
We returned to our condo to open up Brandon's birthday gifts, a Wii with a boat load of new games.
Bob and I left for Barefoot Landing to find Bob some sunglasses. We had just found a pair when I received a phone call from Linda that she thinks she broke Nickie's left leg. Now I'm thinking to myself this can't be, she couldn't have done that, there has to be a mistake. Bob and I drive back to the condo and I take a look at Nickie's leg and though it looked bad I kept praying it was not broken. We drove the 13 miles to the Grand Strand Hospital (this took nearly 40 minutes). Fortunately we were seen quickly, unfortunately the x-rays showed a left femur fracture. This required surgery that this hospital could not perform. It was suggested we transport Nickie to the Medical University of South Carolina, a level one trauma unit, 90 miles away. Nickie was transported via ambulance with Linda as a passenger. Bob, Brandon and I had to return to the condo to pack up, it was late when we were done and with the suggestion from one of the hospital staff that we should wait till morning to make the 2.5 hour drive because some of the areas were questionable during daylight hours it was not advisable to drive at night.
After Nickie's arrival, Linda called to say her surgery would take place the following morning. Her surgery was postponed for several days and to my surprise the reason was due to having 90 percent of the surgical staff away at a conference. Had this information been shared with us prior to transport we would have chosen to transport Nickie back to Richmond where her orthopedist could perform the much needed surgery. After several talks with the chief of orthopedic surgery we were finally able to have the surgery performed on Wed. The very special hardware that was necessary for this surgical repair had to be shipped from Colorado. Nickie was able to be discharged to home on Friday. It was a very long 9 hour drive home due to the need to stop frequently to provide pain management, position changes, etc. We finally made it home and in a couple of days Nickie runs a temp of 102 degrees. We had her assessed and found out she had an infection in the incision. It was determined that she would have to have another surgery to remove the infection. All I could think was Nickie has gone through so much why was this happening? She spends several days at the PICU at St. Mary's Hospital and has a PICC line inserted to battle the infection. She is discharged and goes home with the PICC line for many doses of IV antibiotics for several weeks. My baby girl suffers tremendously trying to fight this infection. Weeks turn into months before the infection is cleared and the Picc line removed. She has made a full recovery and praise God has returned to her old self! I must admit I lost my way and began to doubt in God during this time. Thanks to some wonderful friends with encouraging words I found my way back.
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Happy April Fools Day!
It has been a wonderfully exciting start to spring here these last couple of weeks! Jackie set her wedding day in October of this year. Last week I went shopping with Jackie, her best friend Amanda and my mom. The mission was to find a beautiful wedding dress for Jackie, as well as a mother of the bride dress for myself and a dress for my Mom. I found not one but two beautiful dresses at Ross. One for the rehearsal dinner and one for the wedding. Mom was not so lucky but we will find one on our next shopping trip. Jackie found a beautiful dress and unbelievably her favorite dress was marked at a remarkably affordable price! Jackie has found the perfect location for the wedding, Celebrations. I can not be more proud of my beautiful girl! She has found a smart, loving young man that treats my girl with respect and equality.
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