I take care of approximately 20 people every day, doing things like wound care and urinary catheterization. These are VERY personal things and it is my professional style, to attempt to build relationships with my patients that make care more comfortable and cohesive for all of us. I am noticing that over time my patients develop a sense of ( Read more... )

I haven’t posted in a while but I have been thinking about what I need to put down. This seems as good a time as any since everyone else in my house is sleeping but me… which seems… silly somehow ( Read more... )

Kerena has been getting to big to really be swaddled very well. Which is saying a lot because I am an expert swaddler. I can wrap up a baby like a burrito held together with tension and pasty beans. But she is a strong girl and by 2 am had managed to squirm and push and wiggle out of her swaddle. Then I dug up the Miracle Blanket (Read more... )

I went back to school on Monday. I am taking a phlebotomy course that meets Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm, for three weeks, and then one full 40 hour week clinical in a hospital or lab. It is enough credits to count as full time. I must admit I am really enjoying the academic part... learning advanced hematology is fascinating! However... ( Read more... )

The girl had a brilliant night of sleep in her crib last night. I put her down at 8:30 pm and she didn't wake up again until 3 am. After feeding, changing, burping and re-swaddling her I put her down again at 3:35 and she was out again until about 7am. So for those keeping track that is one 6.5 hour stretch with another 3.5 hour stretch. ( Read more... )

The girl has been sleeping for about 4 hours now... So I am calling today's nap a success. Technically we have only been attempting the daily nap for about 5 days now. 4 of 5 of those days have been great, only yesterday went miserably (as in, both she and I were miserable). So statically speaking that is a 80% success rate. I am trying ( Read more... )

Last week Kerena and I took a week off and with a few exceptions; we spent most of our time at home attempting to establish a better eating and sleeping routine. I have to say that this was, by far a horrible failure. Prior to last week we were rather busy, and found that most days we had errands, appointments, play dates or some other such ( Read more... )

1. I am tired, really tired but remarkably happy ( Read more... )

But feeling the need to put a few down anyway, especially since I haven't said much about the past few days. They have been intense ( Read more... )

Dear Seamonkey ( Read more... )