On the mend...

End of week three of classes and I am starting to frazzle a little. I thank the heavens above for me starting an ADN program last fall! It makes about 70% of all the stuff I am 'learning' now sort of like a review. I can't imagine the stress of it being ALL new... it's a lot. In the life side of things, my house is a wreck and there are piles of laundry to be done. I have LONG days on campus and by the time I get home I just want to relax. Relaxing is short lived due to the ever lasting need to study or review something. Just today I left my house at 8am and got home at 7pm, all for the love of nursing. They don't lie when they say nursing is not for the weak! Tests start next week and I feel pretty confident about some and less on others. Guess I should break down and really focus. I am aiming for A's so I can hold a high enough GPA throughout my nursing school to graduate with honor's, but we will see how far I get with that. No better way to 'beef' up that resume than to have 'Honors' for your BSN....as many employer's base new hires on GPA status : /

This past week and a half has been extremely trying. I am just now getting over what seemed to be the MOST painful otitis externa I have had in a really really long time. For those of you who do not know what that is, it is an outer ear infection, or 'swimmer's ear'. If you have never had one, feel lucky. Your whole ear canal swells and hurts like the Fire of Hades is residing somewhere down in there with the little devil in there stabbing his tiny pitchfork repeatedly into your tympanic membrane. It got so bad I couldn't even chew, or bite down for that matter, without a tremendous amount of pain. The swelling had traveled down my neck and all around my jaw. Apparently when it started I chocked it up to jaw pain related to my TMJ and it just continued to get worse and worse. Thankfully Student Wellness at UTMB fixed me up. Took a couple times, as the first prescription I had a reaction to and caused even MORE pain....go figure. I am finally recovering and all is well except for a slight muffle I still have. I have been told it will go away eventually, but I am starting to worry.

Oh and as for the diet thing...I am still 'easing' into it... 5 pounds down and still 30 to go. Only 91 days left to do it in too....