Real World, Real Life...

I have started my internship. Just finished up week 1 and tomorrow I start week 2. I can't belive that I have already started. 19 more weeks to go!! It went fairly well this week. I was pretty nervous going in to it and I think that I may be more nervous in the coming weeks because soon I will be preparing patients and their families! I am in the OR right now for these first 4 weeks and then I am going to the ED (Emergency Department) then I think Blume Clinic (hematology/oncology) then NICU then PEDS! :) I am so excited to be able to do this internship. Everyone I have met so far have been so nice. This past Friday, Me, Greg, and Diane got to go on the community cruiser that Presbyterian has. It is an 18 wheeler truck that is made like a doctors office inside. Diane and I got to be the ones to distract the children while they were getting shots, and Greg helped us when we were lost. He is one of the child life specialist at Presbyterian. It was a lot of fun and a day outside of the hospital. It can get a little crazy down in the basement and you can feel a little blah when you don't see outdoors all day long. I have had to get up around 5:00 and be at the hospital by 6:30am, but the good thing is for this rotation I am done at 2:00 each day. I'm really glad to have started...but, I still really miss greenville and my roommates and the atmosphere that I used to live in there. It's still really weird here and I have yet to find my place...but I will eventually I am sure. Today Joyce came to visit me and it was great, but it left me feeling sad inside...hoping this whole living here in Charlotte with my sister thing gets easier one day...I know eventually it will. For now, I'm just living it up at the hospital each day and loving every minute of it :)