Tag: travel nurse blog
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The Gulf Coast (Week 13)
I had to make an emergency trip back home this past week. My husband had another horse accident which resulted in multiple rib fractures and a collapsed lung. He doesn’t own any horses that buck but apparently when you put on a brand new saddle (that doesn’t fit quite right), it can end with a […]
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The Gulf Coast (Week 11)
For my entire life I have been asked what it was like to be a twin. I don’t really have a simplistic answer to that question, so I usually answered it by telling them that “I don’t have anything else to compare it to” or “I don’t know any other way”, because I don’t. Let […]
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The Gulf Coast (Weeks 9 & 10)
I always struggle with gift giving expectations during the holidays. I love giving gifts to friends and family throughout the year as I see special items that they would enjoy, but it is often difficult to find something personal under pressure during the holidays. What do you give your parents/spouses/grown children that have everything or […]
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The Gulf Coast (Week 4 & 5)
Meet Mary. She is a feral kitten that my daughter caught on our property. She domesticated it for me so that Wookie could have a playmate. I named her Mary and it seems to fit her well since she is “quite contrary” as the childhood rhyme goes. When I was trying to find a name […]
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The Gulf Coast (Week 3)
One of my favorite things about this assignment is that I don’t have to wear scrubs. It may sound like a small thing, but it is big to me. People tell me all the time that it must be so nice to wear scrubs to work everyday, so comfortable like pajamas. That is part of […]
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The Gulf Coast (Week 2)
This assignment is passing faster than any I have done so far. I can’t determine why it feels that way. I think it may have something to do with my ability to go home every week. It may also have to do with the fast pace at work. I am enjoying the challenges and the […]
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The Gulf Coast (Week 1)
This is the view from my camper. I find myself living at the ocean! Okay, it’s not really the ocean, it is considered a bay. BUT, it is waterfront, the water is salty, and there are waves lapping at the shore. I am content, and Pearl is overjoyed (she LOVES swimming and this was her […]
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The High Desert (Week 9)
I made home made chili this past week. It’s a good thing I had my two little jalapenos, because there were none to be had at the grocery store here. They added the perfect touch (and the red one was wonderfully spicy)! Today is a beautiful day and one that only autumn can provide. The […]
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The High Desert (Week 7)
I met my husband in Pagosa Springs this past weekend. It is somewhat of a half-way point for us and we had never been before. We were able to stay in a pet-friendly cabin so that Wookie and Pearl could play (that was the best part). I stepped out of the cabin on the first […]
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The High Desert (Week 3)
There are parts of my career that I find absolutely wonderful, and then there are parts that I find less enjoyable. I have spent time in this blog revealing my favorite parts, but not the “less enjoyable” parts. Today was one of the “less enjoyable” parts and one that I would file under “worst” parts. […]
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Week 13 (Leaving the mountains)
We have hiked around 500 total miles here by my estimate (more than the amount of miles that I put on my car for this assignment). Funny story, the shoes that I have worn to hike all those miles actually belonged to my daughter. They are just a regular pair of athletic shoes. She left […]
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Week 12 (Somewhere in the mountains)
This picture represents what we have been experiencing here this past week. Strong, sustained winds at 30 mph with gust up to 60 mph. That is sand in the picture and probably the reason that the air quality has been rated as poor. There is no escape from it, inside or outside. It makes me […]
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Week 11 (Somewhere in the mountains)
How beautiful is this place?! We found it by happenstance while my husband was visiting. The weather was hot, so we searched for a place to swim and found this! It is considered the local swimming pool, but is more like a swimming hole. This naturally warm pool is fed by a spring and the […]
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Texas Like That
I sent my husband back to Texas today after a brief three day stay. I had to weather an emotional four hour drive back from the airport after dropping him off. All I had were my thoughts and my music for the drive. I love all genres of music and have quite an eclectic play […]
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Wookie Part 3
Wookie takes his job very seriously. He has not missed a day of work since he started going. He has an entire collection of ties (he now wears one everyday) and the staff and patients adore it. He strolls down the halls in his tie with an air of importance. The state surveyors thought he […]
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Week 10 (Somewhere in the mountains)
Oh, the excessive secretions! With the nasal, tracheal, and bronchial mucus, I feel like I am drowning. It has sleeted and snowed this week so it is incredibly difficult to imagine it is related to allergies, but I get pollen alerts every day. I need to evaluate it further to see exactly what the trigger […]
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Week 9 (Somewhere in the mountains)
I have a washer/dryer combo now! No more laundry mat. I feel like I am living the life of luxury. I am very much like my Granny. She always had a load of laundry going. My Grandaddy would tease her and say that when she walked through the front door, she would run straight to […]
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Week 7 (Somewhere in the mountains)
Pearl is sitting beside me as I write this. She will be gone tomorrow morning and so will my husband. Back to Texas again. I don’t have words to describe the feeling of loss. I always begin feeling that sense of loss the moment that they arrive for a visit. Maybe someone else can relate. […]
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Week 5 (Somewhere in the mountains)
It’s hard to believe that we have now been here over a month. In some ways it feels like yesterday that we made the trek across the United States to get here. In other ways, it feels like I have been here my whole life. I stick out like a sore thumb here with my […]