The Hit

So I thought i'd write this out here. While it's fresh so I remember it
3:47 - glance at clock while on reddit and realize mom called and asked to meet her down town for 4 ish.
Head out thinking ahh 4ish, i'm sure i'll get there just as she's trying on glasses

3:55 ish - i'm stopping at the intersection of 9th (ring road) and Pasqua, at a red light. Thinking about how much traffic there is. Also notice the full sized truck infront of me has a flip down screen and someone in the back is watching a movie. Also start to think about if those trucks come stock with the flip down or if it's after market. Also start trying to figure out what the person is watching.

Second later - corner of my eye see blue and white in my review mirror

Not even a blink later - impact

Open eyes - reach for brake, can't reach it. *oh shit* look in my lap and pic up my glasses that were knocked off my face. take a big breath in. *okay I can't breath, owie chest hurts* take off my seat belt and notice people running to the vehicles behind me.

I get out. People are yelling that 911 has been called. Try calling mom. no answer. call dad. tell him what happened. I notice lady that impacted me is being helped by a bystander. I go to the truck behind her. Guy looks hurt. Get him to open the door, he's hurt his neck. I tell him not to move. I notice a first aid kit in his truck. I move on to the car that caused the accident. see it's bad. Try the passenger door. it's crumpled to badly. Try back door, nope locked. Other side is locked as well. Drivers door is partially bent open. Bystander is checking pulse and for breaths. I go to truck in front and ask the guy for his first aid kit. as person had pulse and was breathing.

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Noted after everything calmed down: the impact shoved my seat back, hence why I couldn't reach the peddles. Not sure if my chest hit the steering wheel or just the seat belt impact is causing my chest pain. The force of the impact has partially opened my ask tray and drink holder. Ash tray is harder to open.

Still here

**So I wrote this quite a while ago. I have added some updates**
So I know it has been FOREVER since i've blogged. But we bought a house and I started prac, ooooo and I also bought a new car. So I've been busy.
I was thinking about something the other night. You get told tons of lies when you are little, like 'you don't need naps anymore, naps are for little kids' or pretending like life is so much better without them. 'Once your old you get to stay up late' like it's an awesome thing to get to stay up late.  Perception of having a job is awesome. But all of the above are LIES, LIES I tell you.
Naps, naps are awesome. No ifs, ands, or buts about it, they. are. awesome.
Staying up late... wayy over rated. Bed time is around 10 when you get up at 5am. So staying up late is no fun.
Job, okay so this one is a half lie. Yes having a job brings in money, and money buys awesome things. But it is hard work. and working for free is the ultimate worst. Not only physically exhausting but mentally as well. And I'm not making money, so double boo on that.

Prac
It's been going awesome. I've seen so many cool cases and saw some really rare things. I've worked ICU since prac started and it's been great. Another thing I learnt is in the profession we talk about gross things all the time. Like I mean ALL the time. Doesn't matter if everyones just chatting or eating lunch, gross things come up all the time. Thankfully I have a stone stomach on this stuff. Let me define gross; today at lunch we talked about sputum (gross crap you cough up out of your lungs), what colors refer to different strains of pneumonia. Yup the different colors mean different things or at least can lead you to start looking in one direction. It's kinda nice to be able to talk gross things with people without them giving you the 'i'm going to throw up' face. lol sorry family.
Ohh and for those that don't know. I am in practicum for Respiratory Therapy, it's 11 months long and it's normal working hours without pay.

**Right now I am in Stoon doing my peds rotation. I absolutly love it up here. The preceptors are really great and challenging and the hospital is huge.

New car
Its been awesome and hard all at once. I started the safety, every car that gets brought into the province needs an inspection. My car needs a few things, hardest part is the days I get off normally are the days the shops I need to go are closed. So it's been tough getting my stuff done. Thankfully my family is super helpful in trying to help me get the things I need. Sooner or later it will be fully plated and good to go!
**I've been driving the forester for a bit now. I love it. So much fun and practicality**

So flickr has made it super hard to add photos :/ ugh.
Anyways. I worked Comic Con in Regina this year. It was awesome. I worked for AlMar and they are cool guys.

No idea why these are sideways... ugh!



**Well if you made it this far I'll explain another little tidbit about why I haven't blogged in a bit. Besides the fact that I'm trying to figure out the best way to add photos I have to add that I don't have a house or a fiance anymore. Some know what happened, quite a few don't. I pretty much erased the entire thing from facebook. :(  If you really want to know just get a hold of me.


I will keep working on adding photos!

Countdown!

So the countdown is once again on! Yes I am still alive, yes I know its been a while, and yes it's mostly because of school.
I'm in the last week of my second year of school. We get to write 5 exams in 4 days and then I am "off" for 3 weeks. Not really though, because the teachers have once again mucked it up. This new program design has been a challenge in itself, besides having difficult schooling. We now have to complete a lab manual before we come back the last weekend of May. Now most would be like, well that's not bad. No it's not, but once again the people from out of town get thrown off the bus. The teachers informed us that the lab manuals won't be in the bookstore till at least May 5th. Not bad, 2 weeks ish to finish... but wait, what about everyone that is moving out of town at the end of April. Teachers response "ohh umm ya, about that, well I guess you have to get someone to ship you the manual" Great, awesome, thank you very much for considering us out of towners. I sometimes wonder if the teachers/program thinks that out of town students are rich. Did someone not tell em I have a money tree growing somewhere, I seem to have misplaced mine. Another expense out of the pocket.

Speaking of expenses, in the last month between Chris and I have dropped a ton of cash :/ ya not to smart for a student. But it is all in the name of stuff we need for the future. Like a house, we bought a house :D it's a good starter house for us. Not the one we will live in forever (if we have any say about it), but it's a roof over our heads with things we really like about it. I wish the perfect timeline in my head worked out a bit better, if it had I would be working and we could have had two incomes to buy the house. But alas it did not, so we made due with what we do have.
In this last month I have also somewhat purchased a new car. For those who know me outside this blog you know that at one point I had two vehicles. A summer and then a more reliable/winter car. Since starting school I sold the reliable/winter vehicle since I haven't had any use for it in the last two years. Next winter I will need a new vehicle so I contacted a friend, and well lets just say I have a new winter vehicle sitting in Japanland. yay :D

So be prepared for the "I'm so poor" blog posts to come.
Also I made a post a while ago about buying a house, well a start to a post. I'll finish it up and post it once we move into the house come June. :)

Now since it's been forever, here is a massive dump of photos

 (Excuse me if some of these are duplicates form previous posts)

So this is a path I walked last week. It's pretty cool, awesome view. My roommate showed it to me a little while ago, there are so many variations that I never have to walk the same one.

This is one of the views from the walk. Just gorgeous!

A good friend of mine took me to visit her friends and family one weekend and I got to play with horses and bunnies and Guinea pigs. :D

This is the horse I got to work with. I am such a sucker for paints/appys. He is beautiful!

I made these and took the tarts out to the farm/town with us that weekend

I also like to do my hair occasionally, I am inlove with the show Vikings.

Another different braid I tried out

This happens a lot to me.....

This handsome man drove 3 hours just to have lunch and ice cream with me  <3

Got to go snowboarding in the mountains twice this year! new record! also pretty sad but still it was so much fun!

For christmas my parents got me a wakeboard set up, and the boots weren't in, in my size. So they stopped by on their world win tour and we picked up a set :)

This was part of the store we got my boot in. It was HUGE

I feel like I'm a pretty talented packer, this is about 85%-90% of my closet of clothes in one bag

At school during finals our student community holds different stress relievers. This was one, they bring in dogs and you get to hang out with them. They were all so chill. It was awesome

 I miss a lot of things.... including my car

Some stuff I was studying. Instagram is really cool in which it has lead me to meet some sweet people that are interested in the same stuff. This picture I sent to a girl down in the states who's studying to do the same as me. We met through hashtags on instagram and we talk every so often. It's cool to talk about the differences in our programs.

The sign was broken on the top of the building, so for about 2 weeks these guys would repeatedly go up and down

Went to Chinook to pick up some tea the other weekend and this guy passes me. I was stunned and texted Chris about it. Then I came out another store and started going up the escalator when he passed me again... to each their own I guess

Tea I picked up should last me a while :)

Easter nails I painted

My awesome Easter basket I got, I know i'm spoiled :)

So the tea I got from Teavana I thought would taste good cold. And man was I right! So I rigged up this strainer in the middle of the Brita jug and headed my water and then poured it in. I felt like it didn't really get to steap that much. Kinda wish the spout going down into the bottom was smaller. Anyways the tea was great! I added a little big of extra sugar and then let it cool and it was seriously the best juice to have on hand.

More packing pictures

Saw this the other day while going to lunch with the ladies. Made me miss my car :(

Decorated some Easter eggs! Mom bought me this cool 24k gold egg coloring kit thing.

Bahaha this is my group in lab running experimental test on me. It seems I have really quite low reserve volumes so we were trying different positions to see if it made a difference. Prone = worse, sitting was below average and we never got a chance to see if standing made a difference

Few weeks ago the Tower was having water issues. The they called someone to fix it....  came back from class to a water park in the lobby. Something happened where the burst a pipe in the ceiling and it started raining down water from the ceiling

Favorite study snack = frozen grapes mmmhhhmmm


So I hope all the pictures work. Flickr (where I host them) has done some upgrading recently and it makes it more time consuming to link them all here :/

TBT

So this started quite a while ago that on thursdays you post old pictures. People called it Throw Back Thursdays. I really like it, it gives you a chance to post old pictures and reminisce. So here I go

I forget what year this was. But this was Halloween on a pub crawl I believe (we are on a bus in this picture), one of my best friends Kayla and I.

Exhibition one year in Regina a looong time ago. Another of my best friends Sara and I, I think Chris was there too.

As you can see I am always super classy in photos. I think this was at Chardelle's Birthday

2012 Canada Day Miss Vik and I

 Hahaha Sara will probably kill me. But as you can see she is always tip top of her game in every photo.

Another one of my favorites of Miss Vik

We used to go out alot, no idea when this was taken

Swimming lessons with Vik and I... I think thats even a black berry I had.

New years 2013

And this is why I am normally behind the camera

Photo I think Pho took. Wake up at the crack of dawn, Pho was a good sport about it. And a damn good photographer

Had so many awesome times in Saskatoon. This one it right at the top. Thanks Lee i'll never forget that day.

First year in school

This guy. <3 Puts up with me :)

Last tbt. My first apartment in Stoon and the awesome friends I had who would come visit me and we'd have a blast.