Saturday, March 15, 2008

Hazzah!!!

She blogs again!

I am now half way through my 160 externship. It so happens to be the office I take Jack to when he gets sick, and I must say I love it!!! Unfortunately they don't have a position open to hire me into when my externship concludes. However, I am told I'm doing fantastically!!!

I've seen a patient who cut one of her fingers on a ban saw in shop class, fortunately not doing any real damage. I've seen a kid with a broken clavicle (collarbone), a kid with a broken arm and assisted in putting a temporary cast on it. I've seen a bunch of well kids for their well checks, and a bunch of sick kids. This past week I gave my first clinical injections, my first was a 1 month old girl. Was it hard? Hell YES!!! Who wants to stick a needle in a wee little baby? Well I did, but only to inoculate her from Hepatitis B. Since then I've given a few more short but only once have I given two shot to one patient and he was 12 or 13.

Jack is doing amazingly well. Aside from having the same cold thing that more than half the kids I've seen have, and developed wheezing to accompany it. He's now on medication for asthma, only a maintenance dosage, and only while he has symptoms. He's quite a smart little boy. He knows most of his alphabet, know all the parts of his body (the major ones anyway). He says Rock, Ball, teletubbies, yogurt, dinosaur, octopus, fish (still sounds like ish), crackers, milk, cheese, please (sounds like peees), woof, meow, roar(like a tiger, lion dinosaur, dragon etc...).

He loves to watch Shrek, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc. Sleeping Beauty(for the dragon), Elmo's Potty Time, Elmo goes to grouchland, Thomas and Friends, teletubbies, and a bunch of other shows and movies. He'll sit and watch most of if not all of any of those movies or tv shows. He loves to read and will look through books on his own throughout the day. Or he did, Jack started daycare the first day I started my externship. He really didn't like it at first, but he's coming around. He gets two snacks during the day and breakfast and lunch while he's there, if the weather's nice they go out side and play, and they do crafts and sing songs and read books.
His daycare is right down the street from the office I'm working in. It's handy now but hopefully my next job will have daycare. Jack still sees his girlfriend, Kaitlyn. She recently turned 2 and the grand celebration took place at the illustrious Chuck E Cheese. They also went out on a triple date, chaperoned by her parents and well as his (ie me and Trav) We really enjoyed both trips to see them and look forward to more friendly get togethers, we'll let everyone know when Jack and Kaitlyn have set the date ;)

My dream job is to work at Seattle Children's Hospital. You may recall from one of my last posts the my niece was undergoing open heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. I'm not sure if they are affiliated, but it'll give me a chance to give thanks for the wonderful care Sylvie and her parents received while there...that is if I can get a job there. Fingers crossed....

Travis is doing exceptionally well also! He's just about finished totally with his book, the cover inspires one's imagination all by itself!! He's still enjoying his position at Her and surprises me everyday with his humor, knowledge, imagination, and love for Jack and me. He's a deep guy, and one I'll need many years to fully learn him.

On the home front, Travis and I have started the house hunt!!!! BYU HALLU!!!! We found a good place today, but we want to be in our house sooner than they can accommodate us since it'll take about 7 months to build a new house. We'll see about other neighborhoods this builder offers though.

Harriet had a harrowing experience this morning. She was attacked by another dog...half her size. She and Travis were making their way back inside, after seeing a neighbor walking 3 of her dogs. All three of them were on leashes, she however was not holding the leashes....it was a bit frightening after the tussle cause it looked like Harriet's eye had popped out of her head. We took her to the vet and were very relieved when we found it was her third eyelid not her eye, it had resolved most of the way before we got to the vet but there was still blood and we wanted her checked out. The neighbor was very apologetic and has since given us a check for the amount of the vet bill. Lucky we have good if not smart neighbors.

Harriet came away from the ordeal with the doggie equivalent of a black eye. She seems to be doing fine now and we have pain meds and creams and ointments for her to treat the little scrapes and such. Scamp is doing just fine! He loves to caterwaul at night when we are either trying to read, watch tv, or sleep...though we have since started throwing him out of our room when we go to be at night. He isn't happy about that but oh well we need our sleep.

Pete is well, he is enjoying some fresh bark in his tank. We are very excited about getting our house and putting him on display in a nicely set up tank just for him.

Exciting times for the Gentry's, what with finally achieving long sought goals and settling down as adults, Jack just beginning his educational career...this year ( I know we are already 3.5 months into it) looks to be a great year!!!!

Cheers! and look for more posts to come!!!