It’s almost the end of October! Which I am told, means that after the students desperately claw their way up this pile of books, papers, classes and clinicals is where we finally reach the top and can see down to the other side. I can’t say that I quite believe them, because even though it’s supposed to getting easier from here on out all I see are the “to dos” that I have to get done to stay on top. I still have an enormous amount of papers, journals, care plans, tests, a proposal for a community project, and a pile of reading that keeps on growing. I just went through a final in one class and midterms in the others. I have finished Lifespan II and will begin Lifespan III Monday. My friends and I look around to see who’s missing and I am just thankful that as we come back in after that week of test after test after test after test that I’m still occupying a seat.

P.S. I start my adult trauma clinical @ St. Louis University Hospital this Tuesday and Wednesday for 6 weeks. My clinical instructor, Bobbi said that we’ll see everything we’ve imagined and a lot that we would have never thought of. I’ll try to post all the interesting stuff, which means the gross stuff of course….