“Are you my nurse?”
Ok, first let me say. I’m sorry I have been slacking on the blog posts lately. It’s been over a week since I last posted, but I have a pretty good excuse… I have just been busy =)
I know you are already wondering about my title, but you will have to wait because I have a lot of other stuff to talk about first.
So, my birthday is a week from tomorrow… uh HOLLA. I think I love my birthday more than anyone in the world! Halloween is coming up, and my mom and family is coming to Milledgeville! EEEEEK!!! I can’t wait!!!
So school is fantastic. I am doing very well in ALL of my classes. I struggle the most in Chemistry, but I have heard that it is the hardest part of pre nursing, so I am glad I am getting it out of the way!
On to my title though…
This weekend I experienced the most amazing thing ever. I went to work with Nikki at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for a project for my advisement class at school. The whole day I was absolutely STOKED!! I couldn’t wait to get there and experience the hospital on the side of it I had never been before. When we left the house though, I got nervous. What if I was so excited about something and then I got there and hated it? I was really hoping that I would love it and as soon as I walked in the hospital with Nikki all my excitement came back. We went down the hall to her unit, probably the hardest in the whole hospital and got to work immediately. I got a little nervous again though. I didn’t want to be in the way, I didn’t want to freeze up, and I didn’t want to not like it. Thoughts kept running in and out of mind about what to do in case of an emergency and things of the like. I knew I could do it though and tried to relax because I was so excited to be there! After doing rounds and seeing all the patients and giving medicines and such we had an admission of a sweet little girl. Her and her dad came in because she had been diagnosed with ITP and things weren’t going so well. The hospital admitted her so she could get treatment and get on her way. Nikki did the normal admission questions and left the room to grab a few things and I was left alone in the room alone with the dad and little girl. She was so sweet, not looking sick at all besides all the bruises from her ITP, and was enthralled with the TV. She loved hitting all the buttons on the remote and in the middle of her playing, she paused and her big brown eyes look up at me and she said, "Are you my nurse?" At that moment I knew it was for me. Nursing was what I wanted to do. All she wanted was for someone to help her and she knew nurses did that. Whether it is an adult or a sweet brown eyed two year old girl, I want to help them. I wanted so badly to say, "Yes I am you nurse," but I just told her I was her nurses helper and she still loved it.
Nursing school is going be hard, I know it will… But I CANNOT wait for the reward it will bring me!!!!!!!
