So... yes, I know that I have not blogged in many o' months. Well alot of things have happened since I last wrote. First of all I moved to Oklahoma. Tis a beautiful state with alot of great scenery and great people. Second my roommates are going to be moving up north, dont know where yet, but somewhere up north. At first I was pretty upset. I felt a little abandoned. The financial burden is going to be heavier for me. However, after many months of thinking and mulling it over in my mind, it really is the best thing for them. Stephanie never really has been happy down her away from her family. I certainly do feel her pain lately. Which brings me to the third event (oh, that is a good transition sentence... take that english teachers!!!). I have a nephew, as of Sept. 29th. YAY!!! I met him for the first time over Thanksgiving week. He is the most beautiful and handsome little baby, ever!! I mean ever!! I loved every minute we spent together. I want to see him more often, but it is difficult being in a differet time zone and all. I do not want to be that aunt that lives far away and never sees her precious nephew. Although I know that Chris and Becca are going to make sure Levi knows everyone in his family, even if they are 16 hours away. The fourth and final exciting event is I have a new job, starting Dec. 11. I am now going to be working for Health Back Home Health. I know what you maybe thinking, that if keep skipping around jobs like this I will never get anywhere. Well all of the jobs I have had in the past I have had a pretty darn good excuse for leaving. My latest job at Stillwater Medical Center just did not work out well. The people there were very negative. Lots of gossip, and drama happened there. I am also discovering that is about the culture down here. Many people like drama, I dont get it but it is true. I hope to not encounter this at my new job.
Anyway, that is about all for me for now. I hope everyone is happy with my latest update. More to come soon.
Monday, December 03, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Finally.. a job
In 18 days I will be done at Medina General. I officially have a job set up in Oklahoma. I am still taking a pay cut but I am going to be saving money by not driving the distance to Tulsa. I will be working at Stillwater Medical Center, on the med-surg floor, 7A-7P. I hope I get used to that shift. I am typically not a very good morning person. I have many issues getting up and staying up not matter how much caffeine I have in my body. I have become accustomed to the 3-11p shift and staying up kinda late at night. I am a little diappointed about giving up that oncology job at St. Francis, but perhaps it just isnt my time to work at a pink hospital yet. Anyway, this is the update for now. I am just plugging along getting rid of stuff so I can move smoothly to Oklahoma. I started to change my address on my bills and because of this I am starting a "Mel box" at Steph and Richards apartment.. fun times.
In 18 days I will be done at Medina General. I officially have a job set up in Oklahoma. I am still taking a pay cut but I am going to be saving money by not driving the distance to Tulsa. I will be working at Stillwater Medical Center, on the med-surg floor, 7A-7P. I hope I get used to that shift. I am typically not a very good morning person. I have many issues getting up and staying up not matter how much caffeine I have in my body. I have become accustomed to the 3-11p shift and staying up kinda late at night. I am a little diappointed about giving up that oncology job at St. Francis, but perhaps it just isnt my time to work at a pink hospital yet. Anyway, this is the update for now. I am just plugging along getting rid of stuff so I can move smoothly to Oklahoma. I started to change my address on my bills and because of this I am starting a "Mel box" at Steph and Richards apartment.. fun times.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
A minor set back...
Yes indeed, a minor set back that may take a little bit to get over. I had this amazing and frankly, glamorous job set up at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. They were going to pay me to move and to get chemo certified. The oncology floor there pretty much was the best thing since sliced bread. Bone marrow transplant rooms, outpatient rooms, just great stuff. However, I would be taking about a $6 pay cut by doing all this. I would be driving 6+ hours a week total to drive to and from work. The good thing is that I would be working only 3 days a week, but I would have to awaken at the butt-crack of dawn to trec myself to Tulsa to be at work by 7am... all this for an amazing job in the oncology field which I love. Well, I do not foresee that glamorous job that I was longing for to happen anytime soon. So I just applied to Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, OK. It is a small hospital, about the same size as where I am at now. From what I understand there is no oncology unit there. Mostly just general Med-Surg, some post-op, nothing too spectacular. The pay I am unsure of but it will not be a drastic $6 less.. it will be less than what I am at now, but not that much less. The good thing about this place is that it is practically right across the street from where I shall be residing myself. I will be most likely working 12 hour shifts.. 7a-7p.. but that means that I can play kickball in the evenings (this is what Jon informs me of). I will just be getting more experience at doing what I do best.. being a nurse. And I am thinking that is what I need right now. I would love to dive into oncology, but I think that I need to get my feet a little bit more wet with experience and a variety of experience at that. I was pretty disappointed this afternoon about all this. However with the support of my friends and fam I was able to see the brighter side of this situation. It will be better when I move down to Oklahoma to get better accustomed to the area for me to actually work in that area. I worked it out in my head and on paper and there are many more positives to me working in Stillwater than working in Tulsa. So I hope and pray for the best with this application and resume that I just submitted. I hope you do too.
Peace in the Middle East,
Melbert
Yes indeed, a minor set back that may take a little bit to get over. I had this amazing and frankly, glamorous job set up at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. They were going to pay me to move and to get chemo certified. The oncology floor there pretty much was the best thing since sliced bread. Bone marrow transplant rooms, outpatient rooms, just great stuff. However, I would be taking about a $6 pay cut by doing all this. I would be driving 6+ hours a week total to drive to and from work. The good thing is that I would be working only 3 days a week, but I would have to awaken at the butt-crack of dawn to trec myself to Tulsa to be at work by 7am... all this for an amazing job in the oncology field which I love. Well, I do not foresee that glamorous job that I was longing for to happen anytime soon. So I just applied to Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, OK. It is a small hospital, about the same size as where I am at now. From what I understand there is no oncology unit there. Mostly just general Med-Surg, some post-op, nothing too spectacular. The pay I am unsure of but it will not be a drastic $6 less.. it will be less than what I am at now, but not that much less. The good thing about this place is that it is practically right across the street from where I shall be residing myself. I will be most likely working 12 hour shifts.. 7a-7p.. but that means that I can play kickball in the evenings (this is what Jon informs me of). I will just be getting more experience at doing what I do best.. being a nurse. And I am thinking that is what I need right now. I would love to dive into oncology, but I think that I need to get my feet a little bit more wet with experience and a variety of experience at that. I was pretty disappointed this afternoon about all this. However with the support of my friends and fam I was able to see the brighter side of this situation. It will be better when I move down to Oklahoma to get better accustomed to the area for me to actually work in that area. I worked it out in my head and on paper and there are many more positives to me working in Stillwater than working in Tulsa. So I hope and pray for the best with this application and resume that I just submitted. I hope you do too.
Peace in the Middle East,
Melbert
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The long awaited post...
Quite a few updates since I last blogged in January. First of all and most important is that Jon was here for a week. A whole week and after that week I was not sick of him at all. It was a pretty amazing week. There was lots to do and little time to do it in. There was the airport scene. Well it wasnt much of a scene actually, but it could have been. I remember that I had issues maintaining balanace on my two legs because I was so overjoyed with happiness that Jon was in my home state and in my arms that I was not concerned with standing up. That is a moment that I will cherish for quite a long time. He met my parents and from what I gather, they like him. We went to church on sunday and all was well. Dave n Busters was quite a treat, as it is always.. just for the mere fact that skee-ball was involved. Monday was a big day, the biggest of them all. Downtown Cleveland is definitely a treasure that I will miss. We went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame... we had a pretty amazing moment in front of the blues display. I purchased my first guitar shirt at the Hard Rock Cafe. The House of Blues food and music was amazing as it will always be. I would have to say that the moments I cherish the most were when we were driving in my car. We would joke around, say crazy stuff and just talk. We did this when we traveled to and from West Virgina. My family seems to like Jon. I have not heard any complaints thus far. It was quite an exciting week that we had together. I have yet to find something about this man that I do not like at all. At this point in all my conversations and interaction with him I do not think that I will ever find something that I do not love about him. Except perhaps right now, Jon left his cold germs in Ohio.. not very cool.
In other news I am officially moving to Oklahoma. The big move date is May 6. My last day at Medina General Hospital is April 30. I am quite excited about this move. For a couple of days I had a little anxiety because of all that goes into moving out of state... it was overwhelming. However, now I think that I am ready. I have a job about 90% set up. I have a start date of May 14 at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa. I am going to be working 12 hour shifts on an oncology floor. Working only 3 days a week. It is a pretty sweet job. I do not know the pay yet, but all the added benefit of it seem pretty amazing.
Thats all I gots for now. I need to rest my body somewhere.
Melioftheissa
Quite a few updates since I last blogged in January. First of all and most important is that Jon was here for a week. A whole week and after that week I was not sick of him at all. It was a pretty amazing week. There was lots to do and little time to do it in. There was the airport scene. Well it wasnt much of a scene actually, but it could have been. I remember that I had issues maintaining balanace on my two legs because I was so overjoyed with happiness that Jon was in my home state and in my arms that I was not concerned with standing up. That is a moment that I will cherish for quite a long time. He met my parents and from what I gather, they like him. We went to church on sunday and all was well. Dave n Busters was quite a treat, as it is always.. just for the mere fact that skee-ball was involved. Monday was a big day, the biggest of them all. Downtown Cleveland is definitely a treasure that I will miss. We went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame... we had a pretty amazing moment in front of the blues display. I purchased my first guitar shirt at the Hard Rock Cafe. The House of Blues food and music was amazing as it will always be. I would have to say that the moments I cherish the most were when we were driving in my car. We would joke around, say crazy stuff and just talk. We did this when we traveled to and from West Virgina. My family seems to like Jon. I have not heard any complaints thus far. It was quite an exciting week that we had together. I have yet to find something about this man that I do not like at all. At this point in all my conversations and interaction with him I do not think that I will ever find something that I do not love about him. Except perhaps right now, Jon left his cold germs in Ohio.. not very cool.
In other news I am officially moving to Oklahoma. The big move date is May 6. My last day at Medina General Hospital is April 30. I am quite excited about this move. For a couple of days I had a little anxiety because of all that goes into moving out of state... it was overwhelming. However, now I think that I am ready. I have a job about 90% set up. I have a start date of May 14 at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa. I am going to be working 12 hour shifts on an oncology floor. Working only 3 days a week. It is a pretty sweet job. I do not know the pay yet, but all the added benefit of it seem pretty amazing.
Thats all I gots for now. I need to rest my body somewhere.
Melioftheissa
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I take it where I can get it...
God works in some pretty mysterious ways. Sometimes it can be pretty scary because His awesomeness (if thats a word), comes at the most unexpected moments. And it is in those little or big moments that you are really thankful that God is on your side and not the devil, because The Devil is Bad... as The W's would sing. Throughout my days I am finding the little things that God is so involved in and this is a good thing because it means that my walk with God is going pretty good. He gets me to and from places in a safe manner. He is constantly bringing ideas and past events to my mind to remind me of His presence in that situation. He has given me a job that I absolutely love, not necessarily the place in which I work I love but you have to start out somewhere. Lately I have been finding myself thanking God for the work that I do. Sometimes in medicine, especially oncology some not so cool things happen, and all you can really do is just be there with a patient. Holding their hand when a doc is giving bad news, and then comforting them when it is truly sinking in. Somehow my presence just means the most important thing to them, I do not understand it but there is so much uncertainty with medicine. I look forward to the day that I will in a hospital that I love with people that are great to work with. I also look forward to furthering my nursing career. I would love someday to do home health care or hospice. I did an internship type thing my last semester in college with a hospice agency. There is something about being with a patient on their own turf that is so much different than in the hospital. There are those certain individuals that really like to be in the hospital who are drug seeking or need a warm bed. However, for the most part no one really like to be in the hospital. Patients who are discharged home just love that feeling of being able to go home. The other day I was trying my hardest for a patient to be discharged home with physical therapy through a home health agency. But the problem was social services was already gone amongst many other things going on. In all the madness this husband and wife were able to go home. As they were leaving I found out that it was their 53rd wedding anniversary that day. They were so happy to be able to go home and be together. It was so sweet and made me tear up a little.
For the last month and change I have been pretty seriously contemplating moving. I want to get my year in at the hospital before doing so, which my year would be ending on June 27, 2007. I recently put my resume on a job posting website and put in various states that I had been thinking of moving to, one of which was Oklahoma.. I am not sure why anybody in their sane mind would want to do such a thing, but hey I do... jk Jon. I receive a lovely phone all at about 9ish in the morning from a hosptial in Oklahoma offering me a job to work there. I had to decline it at the time with every ounce of my being because I could not leave now. I then took my resume of the website because I was not expecting that quick of a reply from anybody, but it happened. My serious contemplations of relocating have been geared toward Oklahoma. I am not trying to offend anyone with this entry that is near and dear to me in Ohio, but I am 23 years old and I would really like to expand my wings in a different place. Medina has been great but I was not able to build relationships here like I was hoping I would be able to do. The people that I work with are not such great influences and party entirely too much for me to even entertain the thought of going out with them. I work and come home to my kitty everyday. I have family around which is great but they are not people that I can particularly relate to all that well like I have been able to with other people. During most of my college stay at Malone my friendship with Steph has been pretty much my saving grace. She is living in Okie now. And yes, Oklahoma also just happens to have this boy that I happen to love living within its borders, but he is not my main purpose in leaving Ohio. Many people will think such things, but let them think that all they want, its not true. Why cant I move to Oklahoma or wherever for me? Is that such a bad thing? So, I will not be close to my family. I do believe that is why our Lord created phones, email, trains, and airplanes. Just because I were to move does not mean I am going to shun or never talk to my family, in fact I may talk to them more often. And if life does not work out down there, then I will go somewhere else. Trust me I am praying about this and have been for a while; but there are odd doors creeping open I never expected to be this way. There are a select few who know of my thinking thus far, now alot of people are going to know. And I know that my phone will be buzzing because of it. This is huge for me to be thinking about. I had issues moving to Medina, and now out of state. And if it is Oklahoma that I move to, that means that I am going to have to drive that bloody 14 hour drive = 994.1 miles... oh my goodness, I am crazy.
God works in some pretty mysterious ways. Sometimes it can be pretty scary because His awesomeness (if thats a word), comes at the most unexpected moments. And it is in those little or big moments that you are really thankful that God is on your side and not the devil, because The Devil is Bad... as The W's would sing. Throughout my days I am finding the little things that God is so involved in and this is a good thing because it means that my walk with God is going pretty good. He gets me to and from places in a safe manner. He is constantly bringing ideas and past events to my mind to remind me of His presence in that situation. He has given me a job that I absolutely love, not necessarily the place in which I work I love but you have to start out somewhere. Lately I have been finding myself thanking God for the work that I do. Sometimes in medicine, especially oncology some not so cool things happen, and all you can really do is just be there with a patient. Holding their hand when a doc is giving bad news, and then comforting them when it is truly sinking in. Somehow my presence just means the most important thing to them, I do not understand it but there is so much uncertainty with medicine. I look forward to the day that I will in a hospital that I love with people that are great to work with. I also look forward to furthering my nursing career. I would love someday to do home health care or hospice. I did an internship type thing my last semester in college with a hospice agency. There is something about being with a patient on their own turf that is so much different than in the hospital. There are those certain individuals that really like to be in the hospital who are drug seeking or need a warm bed. However, for the most part no one really like to be in the hospital. Patients who are discharged home just love that feeling of being able to go home. The other day I was trying my hardest for a patient to be discharged home with physical therapy through a home health agency. But the problem was social services was already gone amongst many other things going on. In all the madness this husband and wife were able to go home. As they were leaving I found out that it was their 53rd wedding anniversary that day. They were so happy to be able to go home and be together. It was so sweet and made me tear up a little.
For the last month and change I have been pretty seriously contemplating moving. I want to get my year in at the hospital before doing so, which my year would be ending on June 27, 2007. I recently put my resume on a job posting website and put in various states that I had been thinking of moving to, one of which was Oklahoma.. I am not sure why anybody in their sane mind would want to do such a thing, but hey I do... jk Jon. I receive a lovely phone all at about 9ish in the morning from a hosptial in Oklahoma offering me a job to work there. I had to decline it at the time with every ounce of my being because I could not leave now. I then took my resume of the website because I was not expecting that quick of a reply from anybody, but it happened. My serious contemplations of relocating have been geared toward Oklahoma. I am not trying to offend anyone with this entry that is near and dear to me in Ohio, but I am 23 years old and I would really like to expand my wings in a different place. Medina has been great but I was not able to build relationships here like I was hoping I would be able to do. The people that I work with are not such great influences and party entirely too much for me to even entertain the thought of going out with them. I work and come home to my kitty everyday. I have family around which is great but they are not people that I can particularly relate to all that well like I have been able to with other people. During most of my college stay at Malone my friendship with Steph has been pretty much my saving grace. She is living in Okie now. And yes, Oklahoma also just happens to have this boy that I happen to love living within its borders, but he is not my main purpose in leaving Ohio. Many people will think such things, but let them think that all they want, its not true. Why cant I move to Oklahoma or wherever for me? Is that such a bad thing? So, I will not be close to my family. I do believe that is why our Lord created phones, email, trains, and airplanes. Just because I were to move does not mean I am going to shun or never talk to my family, in fact I may talk to them more often. And if life does not work out down there, then I will go somewhere else. Trust me I am praying about this and have been for a while; but there are odd doors creeping open I never expected to be this way. There are a select few who know of my thinking thus far, now alot of people are going to know. And I know that my phone will be buzzing because of it. This is huge for me to be thinking about. I had issues moving to Medina, and now out of state. And if it is Oklahoma that I move to, that means that I am going to have to drive that bloody 14 hour drive = 994.1 miles... oh my goodness, I am crazy.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Good evening to all! Tonight I am watching the Golden Globes and drinking some fun Australian wine. I have the day off work today which is a much needed day off. A couple night ago at work was a good day at work until about 9:30pm. I experienced my first code blue on my own patient. The results were not good at all. This experience pretty much scared the crap out of me. I was shaking and did not take the experience well. After all was said and done for about a 10 minute period I did not want to be a nurse. However, I went back to work the next day and all was well with my soul. That night I did not go back to my apartment, I just could not be alone. I spent the night at one of my secretaries place, Colleen. It helped to talk it all out with her, someone who was there when all this was going on. We had a great time that night too. It was a nice stress relief. From this experience I learned alot. Just in the report I give to on coming nurses and also when I receive report. Also, I think I learned to have alot more compassion with my patients, not that I did not have it before, just to spend more time with them than I already do. From doing this you never know how much of a difference this could make in a patients life.
I decided to start writing again. This is definitely an over do decision for me to make. I have needed to get into doing this for sometime, but I kept putting it off... something I am very good at doing. I bought a beautiful leather celtic journal that smells quite nice this evening and made my first entry. There has been so much going on inside of my tiny head for such a long time and have had no way of getting it out and now I finally do.
It feels like there has not been a whole lot happening in my life until late. I had a great uncle pass away recently. Everyday I work there is something crazy that happens, good or bad. A big majority of the happenings in my life lately have been decisions I am making about my future. Yes, I know, I can make decisions and plan things till I am blue in the face but it is God that makes the ultimate decision. Well, good thing I am praying like crazy for some doors to open.
God has been teaching me alot of things lately. One of the many things is that it is possible for me to open up my heart and life again to somebody else. I never really thought I would I ever meet somebody again and was kinda okay with being single for possibly the rest of my life. However, God just has this way of being some mysterious and random like that. And honestly, I am pretty thankful for this crazy intervention in my life. Yes, this is right everyboday, I am crazy and so is Jon. And the good thing is that we recognize this craziness and embrace it fully. However, the only problem that is happening in this situation between Jon and I is the face that he is in Oklahoma. Yeah a whole 994.1 miles from here. The good thing about this situation between us is that he is coming here to Cleveland in March.
Now that I have made this entry entirely too long I think I shall go and clean around this apartment. I guess I just had too much to say since it has been a while since I blogged.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last...
I decided to start writing again. This is definitely an over do decision for me to make. I have needed to get into doing this for sometime, but I kept putting it off... something I am very good at doing. I bought a beautiful leather celtic journal that smells quite nice this evening and made my first entry. There has been so much going on inside of my tiny head for such a long time and have had no way of getting it out and now I finally do.
It feels like there has not been a whole lot happening in my life until late. I had a great uncle pass away recently. Everyday I work there is something crazy that happens, good or bad. A big majority of the happenings in my life lately have been decisions I am making about my future. Yes, I know, I can make decisions and plan things till I am blue in the face but it is God that makes the ultimate decision. Well, good thing I am praying like crazy for some doors to open.
God has been teaching me alot of things lately. One of the many things is that it is possible for me to open up my heart and life again to somebody else. I never really thought I would I ever meet somebody again and was kinda okay with being single for possibly the rest of my life. However, God just has this way of being some mysterious and random like that. And honestly, I am pretty thankful for this crazy intervention in my life. Yes, this is right everyboday, I am crazy and so is Jon. And the good thing is that we recognize this craziness and embrace it fully. However, the only problem that is happening in this situation between Jon and I is the face that he is in Oklahoma. Yeah a whole 994.1 miles from here. The good thing about this situation between us is that he is coming here to Cleveland in March.
Now that I have made this entry entirely too long I think I shall go and clean around this apartment. I guess I just had too much to say since it has been a while since I blogged.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last...
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