I RETURN! Sick! *collapses* I got a bad congestion cold right after I left camp. Lucky me. Driving for two days through hills was not fun. The pressure in my ears got so bad, I was almost deaf in my left ear. My ears are okay now. A good, restful sleep in my bed seemed to help a lot. Now all I have is congestion, a runny nose, and a weird voice. I had to skip church, which is why I am able to be here now. *sneezes* ... Ew.
... What is this foreign object in front of me? This thing with a screen with words that appear when I type these buttons? This thing that is playing wonderful music in my ears? My computer! How I missed you!!
*glomp* *nuzzle nuzzle* My brain actually forgot the familliarness of saying "plant" and "Knives"! *sniffle* It was so bad. But I bring Trigun fanart in hand! ^.^ What else would I do for a two-day trip up and two days back? I need a scanner. ~_~
Lunis' Tales of Her Trip:
I can't possibly tell you everything interesting that happened. That would take days!
Nursing camp was good for me. Even though it tested my social limits. Camp has never been fun for me. Making friends quickly was never my strong suit. The first few days, I was pretty miserable and panicky. The thing that kept going through my head was, "Omigosh! This is just the first few days! It will never end! Can I go home now?! How will I survive a whole week?!" But I actually did make friends! My roommates (four of them) were fun. Except one that got more and more annoying as the days went on. She was obsessed with the (female) counselor! And never ceased to spout what she thought the certain counselor's reaction to something would be. And was always wrong about it. She was one of the worst people I've ever seen at reading people. She has no idea what real life is like. And not to mantion, she's a huge tattle tale! She won't even go to us with her problem! She just goes to a counselor, leaving us to wonder what in the world we did! She says she feels more secure when telling a counselor. Which appears to be true, since, when we try to ask her to tell us before telling a counselor, she bursts into tears and gets defensive. Margh. But I suppose there has to be one in every group...
The actual learning of nursing was awesome!! ^o^ I got to prick my finger twice. Once with an automatic one all be myself. I had the option to let the instructor do it, but I wanted to be brave and do it myself. ^^ The trick is to not think about what you're about to do. I was like, "*deep breath* *puts her finger up* Okay, all I have to do is press this button and it's over. ... *click* OW!" XDD And then I dripped three drops of blood into three seperate sections on a piece of plastic. The instructor put a different chemical in each. Two of them turned dark red and the other was lighter. Thus, the blood type taking procedure. I found that I was O+ (the lighter red drop). The way to determine positive or negative is to look for little grains in the lighter red blood. The grains are actually a special antibody that negative blood types don't have. So educational! ^^ The other finger prick, my instructor did with a non-automatic needle. It's funny that I can take pain pretty well, but I'm a wimp at anticipating pain. XD I was like, "Omigosh, I'm gonna die!" One girl offered her hand for me to squeeze, so I did, even though I didn't really need to. It was all pokey and hurty though! XP So that one was for my insulin level. It was 93. She said that was perfect. Yay for perfect insulin! She actually let a camper do her finger for insulin. She was 103. XD She said it must have been what she ate that day.
I got to practice giving shots!! Into a special sponge. Our instructor gave us every step. First, remove the cap, your hand pulling it straight up and out. Then, wash the top of the bottle of whatever medicine you are going to inject. Then, pull the needle level up to ten, insert it into the bottle, and release the ten of whatever measurment is on needles (*sweat drop*). Then pull up to the twenty line the liquid in the bottle, take the needle out and inject it at a ninety degree angle into the patient/sponge. Fuuun!
We also got to learn how to take blood pressure. The whole group I tried it on was dead. XDD I couldn't find a pulse! But the instructor said that it took practice to be able to find blood pressure. After the next few tries, I did it! ^^
There were also classes where a nurse of a specific field came up to talk about what in particular they do. I loved the psych (the mental hospital) class. I've always been intrigued by people's minds. I think the two hardest things in that job for be would be 1. to not laugh, and 2. to not play along. You want to treat them like imaginative children, but you have to try to bring them back into reality! There were a bunch of fun stories from her. Maternity and pediatrics was good, too. That nurse was fun. Old, but really fun. After she just introduced herself, she picked up a baby doll, and was about to talk about it. But then she dropped it!! O_O It was hilarious! I think she did it on purpose as a joke. But I'm sure it wasn't on purpose that the baby's head then broke off. XDDDD *dies laughing* She had a lot of cool stories, too. All of them including this one college nursing student that runs down the halls, screaming "Help!" at some point in the story. Oh man, that was so funny.
So yeah, I'm glad I went to camp. Not only did I learn so many cool things, I can put on my nursing resume that I've been to a nursing camp. ^_^
On my way back, I was considering buying some Reese's flavored lip balm at Cracker Barrel. I took a whiff and was like, "I can't smell it." My mom said, "Of course not. You have a cold, remember?" I was like, "... Oh yeah! Heheh."
Okay, so I had more fun that I could recall at first thought. Whoo! But I am SO glad to be back!
Boy, that was long. o.o
well id like to wear pants in public too!
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