"Bad Things Come In Threes"

My clinical day started out with me locking my keys in the car......this is the second time in like 2 months. Annnnd I left my spare in there too! I'm going to have to give my boyfriend a key so he can let me in next time a screw up haha :p

Clinical Day #1 was an interesting experience at Women/Newborn Care Unit. I started out the shift waiting for the charge nurse to get off of lunch. An hour passes by and I was sent on a scavenger hunt to look around the unit and find things in the supply room. That was good. I needed to do that. There are so many different supplies! It's craziness; bili bags, breast pumps, newborn masks, formula, photo equipment, diapers (of course), baby warmers, bili warmers, pacifiers, baby glucometers, etc. A lot of the equipment was doubled adult and newborn. I'm glad I got to look around. I was already sent to get things during procedures.

I didn't see much today. It was a 'shadowing' day so I followed a nurse around. I got to see a fundal assessment which was cool. I ended up just watching the whole process. I got to get my patient information for tomorrow which was good. I felt like I shouldn't have been there though; like I was in the way.

At lunch I had really nothing to say to my clinical group. They all had amazing things happen today. I didn't have much for them. Sadly, I then spilled my soup all over the floor. I hate making messes for people, so I tried to clean it up myself.....I just wanted to go back to my unit....

Back on the unit, my nurse came to me and straight up told me "Don't ever let any nurse tell you to change your practice or how you do things when you graduate." At first I thought she was upset with me. But apparently our patient (who was a nurse) was giving her a hard time. I loved my nurse. She wants me to work with her next week :)

Then at about 7:30pm, I started seeing spots of color in my sight of vision; most people call it an aura. I don't think I get them quite that bad. But yes, a migraine was coming. I didn't have an excedrin with me :/ The nurses all started searching their bags for meds. They drugged me up with 400mg of ibuprofen. Wowza! But that didn't work......the light was killing me...then my instructor came up and sent me home like 2hrs early. I felt bad leaving clinical early, but with that migraine, I wouldn't have been able to focus, and the nausea would just have worsened over time. My instructor told me to get home as soon as possible because I have a history of tunnel-vision when I get migraines. Obviously when I get a migraine, it's God telling me to slow down and breathe... you'll be fine. I worry toooooooo much! :/

As I was leaving, my nurse said "bad things come in threes....what else did you do?" Well I locked my keys in the car as soon as i got here, with my spare in it, and I spilled my soup all over the floor in the cafeteria at lunch. She just laughed at me and told me that I should work with her next week :)

I got home and crashed til it was gone. Yay for migraines! I was stressed and nervous today and that mostly caused it. But now I'm ready to start a new day! I'm ready to begin patient care on mommies!