day after

Christian and I worked Thanksgiving. His hospital was busier during the day than mine. I got busy before I left. We both compared notes and we had two 4 year old pts who suffered burns from spilled soups. One family put mustard on it the other put toothpaste on it. Both of us ate and ate. Everyone brought so much food. I think we each packed 5lbs today.

Tomorrow we are spending Thanksgiving with his family.

This year my sister and i decided to sleep in. No more staying in line at 4 am. Not worth our money. I don't know what I'm going to get everyone for Christmas. I was driving back from work and I had the radio on the Christian station and I realized they started to play Christmas songs after all it was 12:02 am. Thanksgiving is long gone by now.

Here are some photos from Thanksgiving at my parents

Thanksgiving week already???

I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving in less than three days. That also means November is coming to an end. Christmas is just around the corner.

For us Southern Californians we are so blessed with our weather. Yes it's finally cold here but no trace of snow unless you want to drive about 5 hours to Mammoth and even there i don't think there's any.

This week is very emotional for both Christian and I. He has his big final on Wednesday. He has a presentation tomorrow at 8:30am. Along with school worries we've had some sad news from Romania. My aunt has cancer. She's the closest thing to a mother that i had when my parents were away. When my mom told me the news i didn't know how to take it. I'm a nurse i see sick people every day but when it's family and it's so far away it affects you differently.

I came to the realization that i hate (hate is a strong word) a few things and they are: cancer in all forms and sizes, stroke and Alzheimer.

Both my soon to be hubby and i are looking forward to having three days off. A weekend to run errands and be with each other. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving dinner at my house, Friday is Thanksgiving dinner at this house and for Thanksgiving we are both going to work and help others in need.

ashes and heat

I'm home trying to nurse my cold. i got sick on Sunday night and I've been taking NyQuil and Tylenol religiously. I was suppose to go to San Diego today to have lunch with Jackie. well i couldn't do that because of my cold and the fires all around me. They are slowly making their way into Orange County. I can not believe more than a 250,000 people were evacuated. I've been trying to look up and see how many people were uprooted in Katrina.

The air is hot outside an every time you take a deep breath you throat burns and you don't know what to do to make yourself feel better. I've been hiding in my room somehow thinking that the air is nicer inside. We left the kitchen window half way open on Sunday when we went to church and when we got back the counter was black from the dust.

I worked yesterday and i thought since I'm close to the beach i can see clear sky but it's worst than in Anaheim. This is about 10 to 15 miles from my work.

I was surprised we didn't get more people with respiratory issues yesterday. I was so upset yesterday that people are so uneducated about the usage of ER. I had a 2o's year old patient that came in with headache, runny nose, body aches. I was upset because here i am your nurse who is running a fever, got a headache and body aches temporary tamed by Tylenol is at your service. Is a cold really an ER problem? Needless to say, the bed next door held a patient that was in her 40's who called 911 for abdominal pain with nausea and vomiting. All i wanted to say was: are you kidding me there are all these fires and you took the time of 911 to call for nausea and vomiting????? Oh the life of ER!

On these occasions I'm not envious of firefighters anymore. We give them such a hard time when they bring patients in because everyone respects them and always thanks them while they forget about the nurse who hold their hand and rub their back while they are hunch over a bucket vomiting, but i would rather be in my air condition hospital dealing with my drunks on a Saturday night than face to face with fire. Christian and I have you in our prayers. Thank you!

Angela and I trying to look like heroes

My friend Amy updated me that her family home in Fallbrook has nearly escaped the fire. Her backyard with amazing fruit trees is gone but the home is still standing thanks to her brother who stayed behind. This is one of the homes in Fallbrook

I couldn't end this post with out this:

Day off

I'm on my day off today and all i have to do is go to the dentist. Flying and dentists along with rollacosters are a few of the things i dislike in life. I'm freaking out and all i have to get today is a deep cleaning.

I think the added stress to it all is that Christian has his practicum for pharmacology today and he is really sick with a cold. He sounds and looks miserable. We called today "D-Day" Do or Die Day. He has an hour to give and explain 20 medications. Yes that sounds easy but his program is tricky. I don't understand why teachers feel the need to trick us. Were their lives as students that miserable that they decided when I'm going to be a teacher i am going to make my students lives the same? Anyway on Monday if everything goes OK, he's going to start OB. I can't wait to hear his take on that.

I know he's going to be a great dad and he's delivered a few babies at his current job. I remember when i first saw my first baby deliver, not on TV, I though this is a messy business. I was over being a L&D nurse after week 2. Now after working more than a year in the ER, i miss the babies and people being happy and nice to you. People RN does not stand for Real Nice and I'm not your waitress! I do love my job though!

I have the weekend off, and with Christian having to study and being sick i have nothing to do. On Tuesday next week I'm taking the train down to San Diego to visit my friend Jackie that took a traveling assignment as a peds RN in SD.

Sunday morning

It's been a while since i've had a blog....more like 3 years or so. I want to bring Christian into this whole internet thing....no my space for us...too much dram to have such a thing. So i decided that in order to stay in touch with all of you from all over the world we are going to post some times in here.

For now just a pic from our engagement party two weeks ago...