Swimming Dilemma

My Aunt Faith has just recently discovered the world of IM. Today we were discussing a great dilemma she is having.

Faith Anderson: yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah want to go swimming noone in this house wants to go:(
Rebecca Ryan: If i could drive, i would come over, so therefore i would be in that house, and I would want to go
Faith Anderson: why not just walk i heard that is your familys new mode of transportation
Rebecca Ryan: umm...no
Rebecca Ryan: bit far to walk
Faith Anderson: not really not if you really really loved me and wanted to spend time with me
Rebecca Ryan: or if i was even moderately in shape
Rebecca Ryan: hahaha...like that would happen
Faith Anderson: you never know what you could accomplish if you would but only try try try dear one
Rebecca Ryan: i also have vbs in an hour
Rebecca Ryan: sorry
Faith Anderson: well who is more important your poor poor aunt who only wants someone to go aswimming with her or your vbs
Rebecca Ryan: just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming swimming swimming
Rebecca Ryan: what do we do, we swim
Rebecca Ryan: i looooooove toooo swiiiiiiim
Faith Anderson: i can't i'd be all by myself and that is just no fun
Rebecca Ryan: obviously dory disagrees
Rebecca Ryan: you could take sassy? (Her miniature pinscher)
Faith Anderson: well dory is not here now is she i didn't think so and sassy only likes to get wet and then get out
Rebecca Ryan: midnight? (her pug, which she hates)
Rebecca Ryan: if you watched finding nemo, she would be..
Rebecca Ryan: indy?(her collie)
Rebecca Ryan: harley?(my cousin's cat, whom she hates)
Rebecca Ryan: now that would be funny...
Rebecca Ryan: oh, i know! you could take jesse and carrot!(the hamsters)
Rebecca Ryan: and hoppy and rabby!(The rabbits)
Rebecca Ryan: there's a pool party
Faith Anderson: no she would only be in the movie not here where i needed here to be. indy hates water with a passion and that would be one way to get rid of harly because she would be halfway around the world by the time her front feet hit the water
Rebecca Ryan: rofl

Oof

I have had an extrodinarily long day, which I am too tired to blog about tonight. I will tell you that I have an interview tomorrow at 4:30 PM at the Way of Sub. Yayness!

Intubation for dummies

When I got to the intubation station with the 3 other girls in my group we saw half of a dummy. He had a head, neck, lungs, and stomach. We named him Billy-Bob. LOL. I asked why he had a stomach if we were just practicing lung intubation, and the doctor said one of us would probably find out. I did. The first time I put the tube in it went down his esophogus rather than his trachea. When we pumped air in, his stomach filled with air. Not good. The second try I stuck the tube in too far. Only the right lung was filled with air. Again, not good. Finally on the third try I got it right. Maybe I shouldn't go into ER after all. Hmmmmm...

Test Dummies

At camp today we had an afternoon class and we went to 6 different stations and learned how to do different medical procedures. Below are the stations and what we did at each. Each station had a test dummy with which we saw how they did the different procedures.

1. Tracheoectomy- we learned the basics of placing a tube in the trachea and suctioning and cleaning it out.
   
2. Basic Physical- Used a doppler to hear heart sounds, tested reflexes, and used a tuning fork to test hearing.
3. IV's, Catheters, and Scopes- saw how to put in an IV and a catheter, experimented with otoscopes and opthomoscopes.
4. Ventilators and Resusitation- they hooked us up to a ventilator and showed us how it worked.
5. Intubation-How to put a tube in the throat.
   
6. Stan- a very cool simulated patient in an ER environment. He died on us however
   

I luv med school

If any of you read my dad's blog you know that I am attending Camp Mount Carmel this week. I get to do a ton of stuff like scrub in for surgery and all that good stuff. We took a tour of the hospital today and we looked at the Trauma, OB, Neonate, Ambulatory, Pathology and Hemotology Lab, and then met a bunch of surgical students who did a class for us in the afternoon. It was a very fun experience fo ranyone who wants to go into the medical field.

A really good book

Today was just one of those really,really long days where you go "Oh my lord I just want to be back at school". Needless to say these days are really,really rare. I got a chance to just sit and read which I don't get to do all that often. The book is called"She Said Yes". It's about Cassie Bernall, who was one of the girls killed in the Columbine school shootings because when her murderers asked her if she believed in God, she said yes. It's a very sad story, but a very good book. Her mom wrote it a month after Cassie died. I recommend it to anyone on any day that you have plenty of time to read because it is a really good book.

Road Trip

One of the things I love most about summer, spring, and winter breaks is my trips to work with Dad. He works from home but is on the road a lot, so when I'm not at school I go with him sometimes. This is so fun because even though I have to get up really early sometimes (not my favorite thing in the world to do) I can get out of the house and just listen to the Ipod and ride in the car all day. I am a really wierd kid, I mean how many kids do you know who would rather go to work with their parents than play on the Xbox... wait. Let me think about that. Hmmmm. That's a toss up. I'll get back to you on that.

SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!!!

YAY!!!!! I'm done with another year! Freedom at last! I can't believe this school year is finally over. It's gone really, really fast. The school year has been full of projects and I had a teacher who had us memorize a whole lot of stuff. Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, and the Declaration of Independence. Thank the Lord for "Schoolhouse Rock". Ha Ha Ha