Yay Nurse Practitioners!
Today I had an appointment with the nurse practitioner. I am not going to get into all my medical mumbo jumbo right now, although I might in the future play a game of Mystery Diagnosis with you guys if I actually get an answer (and so far the nurse practitioner is closest…and she might have figured it out!!). But I would just like to share that the nurse practitioner I saw today graduated from Regis too! She was super nice and obviously competent, and she is doing pediatrics too, which is what I want to do (yes I’m 22 and I still am a pediatric case only because my primary care physician loves me too much and wants to hold on to me for one more physical in January–it’s a bit embarrassing when I walk into the waiting room, but at least I look young so most people probably think I’m a teenager). She said that she loved Regis too! She did the same program that I am going to do. She also said it was a lot of work and you basically give your life away for these three years, but I already know that to some extent (I won’t get the full picture until I’m actually in it). But it was cool to see her working at somewhere where I could potentially want to work when I graduate. Very exciting 
Other nursing news:
-I did another chapter of the book I mentioned in my previous post. This one was dealing with fractions: relative values, reducing, multiplying, dividing, and equations involving them. Again not too hard, although this one I did make a few mistakes when I was checking my answers because I hadn’t read the problem all the way through. Like I would do the calculation, but then the problem would actually say that the amount calculated needed to be given to Patient X twice a day, but I wouldn’t multiply my answer by 2 to get the correct answer. I have to be really careful about that. I’m hoping it is just because I’m tired and I will be more alert the first week of school when we have our exam. I am planning to go over the last chapter I need to tomorrow: Chapter 4: Units of Measure.
I am done housesitting tomorrow morning for this job. Yay! The dogs are really sweet, but I’m getting tired. Both unfortunately and fortunately I am only home for one night before I start another housesitting job for a week–until August 1st (unfortunately because I’m tired and I’d rather be home, fortunately because it means more money, which we all know I desperately need).
Tomorrow we’re celebrating my mom’s birthday (even though it’s really on Saturday). Should be fun!
~love always~
Jen
