Martineau Family Blog

I know no one has posted after me, but I check every day, and it seems that no one ever will. Its been a busy week. I spent 2 days in the hospital this week. It was really cool, but exhausting. I spent half of the first day in the cath lab. Got to watch a cardioversion(which had to be repeated many times because it did not at first bring him out of atrial fibrillation.) I saw an angiogram which is a sterile procedure, so I had to watch from behind the glass. The heart x-rays were so cool. For the second half of the day, I watched colonoscopies. I placed an iv for one patient( I'll need a little more practice for that one to be perfect), and watched them remove several polyps from another. The RN is mainly in charged of sedating the patients. The physician explained to me all the parts of the colon and what we were looking for. Very cool indeed. After 9 hours in the hospital, Christina and I chose patients for the next day and gathered info about their conditions. We arrived at her aunt's house at 6pm and proceeded to work on our preassessments. Along with various breaks for eating and talking, we finished around midnight. At 6:30, we left for another day at the hospital. I got to change dressings, flush iv lines, and pass medications, along with charting a basic assessment. It was a good day, but a full day and I was so exhausted I went to bed at 9pm. Yesterday was good. I watched Mariya's kids for awhile and as I was walking around campus, I realized that people probably thought they were mine. That is a wierd thought in and of itself. Meagan went to fall fest with me in the evening where we got free cotton candy and waited in line to play guitar hero even though we have several versions at home. My flying trip has been cancelled today which is slightly disappointing, but now I can go to the ward olympics. Also, I'm having a mocktail party next weekend to celebrate being 21 if any of you would like to come ; )