Rants, Recipes, and Running

1. What was your high school superlative (if you didn’t have one- what would it have been)? I was voted "Most Likely to Leave ND" (isn't that funny that was even one of the categories?!) - Yay! Prediction as correct! I was also voted "Most Likely to Succeed." BwaHahaha - that was false! I don't foresee myself "rollin in the dough" anytime soon. Who knows - maybe the shitty economy will make this AMAZING turn-around and I'll score a GREAT job, and then I'll go get my masters or my Nurse Practitioners, and be ever-so-successful (I'm feeling a little apathetic about the job market right now. Don't talk to me about it :P) 2. What sports did you play in high school?  And track my jr and sr year. I ran the mile and 2 mile. If I would've tried, and wouldn't have been such a darn skinny little string bean - I may ahve had the stamina to succeed!? I also was a basketball & football cheerleader - if you want to call that a

Today was a rough day. In fact, this week has been a rough week. I love Critical Care - I can't get enough of it, in fact. But, Wow! I have seen such intense cases during clincals of child abuse, sexual abuse, psychiatric illness, severe full-system crisis/failure...and today I saw my first patient die. That probably sounds weird to refer to that as "my first death". But, it is a fact that every person in the medical field will encounter this eventually -and I did today. And it was very intense and difficult to witness. Getting those images, and the family out of my mind won't be an easy task tonight. :( Which brings me to the LIGHT side of this blog -- In that I have a best friend to call during these times.... My Mom! In honor of mothers day being yesterday - I need to make a glorified shout out to my Mom, my best friend. I find the "Mother-Daughter" relationship to fascinating. I think many of us go through a phase where we do anything to be