Still in the course!

I totally passed that retest, so I am now in class learning about respiratory emergencies. Just thought posting now would be a good plan.

Electrocardioagraphs, the bane of my existence

So we had two tests this week. On Tuesday we had our electrocardioagraph test, and on Wednesday and Thursday we did International Trauma Life Support and had a written and practical test on that on Thursday. I passed the one on Thursday. I did not pass the ECG one.

We have a re-write on Tuesday, and one other student and I will be there. I need to pass it to stay in the course, so I'm spending today and Monday buried in stuff I find hard to understand but have to know.

It's really interesting though. Just complicated to no end. Travis is encouraging me to spend lots of time on it, so that's good.

Have a good weekend!

2 months down, 2 left to go (in class, that is)

The front entrance to our dorms. I love this paint colour!


My first experience with the laundry room, 48 steps down from my room. I usually wash my laundry on weekends at Travis' house. I totally freaked out when I put in my dark clothes, including my uniform, and put the machine on colour wash. It then proceeded to lock the door and flash a light that said 'Warm Wash'. I was horrified, since my uniform NEVER gets washed on warm, and raced up the 48 steps to ask Joanna if she knew what to do. She reassured me that it would be fine, and then I went back down the 48 steps to finish the laundry.....

I look ridiculously young on this picture, which is why I am including it. Packing up the bilateral Sager splint.....

For our 6-month-going-out anniversary, we went out for Chinese food at a little place in Langdon, just south of Travis' house. I think we both looked pretty nice. The red eye is a little alarming, though ;-P

our almost-daily blood pressure monitoring sessions. Practice makes perfect!

EMT snowball fight on Tuesday. We came out of class and just HAD to play in the snow. First good packing snow of the year!

Travis in his 'native habitat'.... or something.... driving the 'kitty' last Saturday. He worked for 2 hours. I enjoyed watching him work for 2 hours :)

He showed me how to use these!!! It was really exciting to see everything. I've never been inside a machine that big before.

You can see the truck the tractor went home on just beside us there.

So yeah. I think the last day of class is May 5. Graduation is (I think) April 29, so we'll be graduating long before we're done our course. But that's how it works, I guess. It would be kind of odd to have a separate grad for only 5 students.
Classes are still going well. We've just completed 2 weeks of some of the harder stuff in the course, cardiology and electrocardiograph interpretation. We have a test on that next week.
Here are some new pictures. Hopefully they won't get messed up like the last batch. Btw, I realize that the last post has the date that I originally wrote it on, not the date that I posted it...