Lesson Learned

Clinicals went pretty well yesterday. My lady was 97 years old!! But, she is great for her age. It was sad and I probably should have said something to the girl, but here's what happened. I was getting her breakfast and I asked the girl who was getting someone else's breakfast to make to sure I had everything. She said, "yeah, but she won't eat that"...pointing to the plate with the 2 pancakes with blueberry puree and ground sausage. So, I went back to the lady's room and got her ready to eat. I mixed her cream of wheat with her milk so she could drink it through a straw (like she likes it, except I forgot to sprinkle the sugar in...oops! I felt SO bad!!). When she drank it all she asked if there was any more so I told her that it was all gone and asked her if she wanted her orange juice (stupidly assuming that she didn't want the pancakes and sausage because of what the girl said..p.s. I learned my lesson!). She said, "no.." , so I thought to myself, "she sounds like she wants more, like she's still pretty hungry and this orange juice isn't going to do the job...maybe I should just offer her the pancakes since they're here to see what she says", and so I did. She said, "sure, I'll try it". Well, it turns out that she ate half of the pancakes with the blueberry puree over them and a couple bites of the sausage!! That's the last time I will ever listen to what they say the residents will or will not eat!! So, and I think this is great for a 97 year old, she ate, about 1 pancake, a cup of cream of wheat, a couple of bites of sausage, 2 small cartons of milk (1/2 of one which was mixed with chocolate syrup! yum!) and 2 small cups of orange juice! Overall, it was a pretty great day. Especially since I got to just talk to her for a little while. : )

Today I got boots to play in the snow and ...

...a real live winter jacket!!

We (my aunt and I) watched the movie Management...it sucked, don't watch it.

I'm currently painting my nails with a really bright pink polish and to top it all off...SPARKLES!!

Exciting things coming my way (all within the next week)!! :

5 days 22 hours until New Moon

6 days 10 hours 28 minutes until I'm getting on the plane to go home!!

8 days 17 hours until I get to MEET The All-American Rejects and rock our asses off at the concert!!

♥