Catching Up!

Well the last few weeks have been okay. I started clinicals 3 weeks ago and they have been a doozy! The first week of clinicals I was so nervous I had no clue what to expect and I felt like I had no clue what I was doing. Which is partially true... Anyways. We start off by meeting in the front room. We usually sit in there for like 30 min waiting for everyone. Its so annoying, we might as well start at 7:30 so I can sleep a little longer. Anyways we leave and then we go to whatever end were going to and we get the residents ready for breakfast. We get them in the rooms they need and then we get all their trays to them. The Garden Room is for the residents that need help eating. My first day I was in that room and I had to feed 3 of them at the same time. It was intense. One lady had to be reminded to swallow, the other lady was deaf and blind and she sleeps through everything. I had to touch her shoulder to wake her up and she would just lift up her head a little and then open her mouth so I'd shovel food in her mouth. Dangerous I know! And then the other woman (who pops up later on in the story) just speaks jiberish. She can fully understand you and everynow and then if you make her mad enough, she'll spit out a few cuss words at you. She's very hostile lets just say that. Anyways after breakfast is over we wheel the people back to their rooms and trasfer everyone into beds and just answer call lights from then on out. Back to my first day though, Im walking down the hall and this girl grabs me and says I need help getting this guy to the bathroom so come help me. I was like what! Oh crap. So anyways we go and we get him into the bathroom and get him stood up because he cant even get his pants or breif off and he's standing there and the girl starts to get his pants down and he farts...it was probably the longest sickest fart ever, I swear it was like a min long. Me and Heather just bust up laughing though, of course its a silent laugh and he cant see us so we were safe. So when he's done with it she goes in again to pull them down and again he farts. Same thing we start laughing so hard and he doesnt acknowledge it at all! He was just like well what are you waiting for! So we get his pants down and she starts taking off his breif and it was like a cloud of fart that just hits her. Her face was hilarious it was just disgusting! So we get him situated and leave him to do his thing and were just waiting outside his door for him to call us. He finally gets done and Heather the girl im with was like Danni you cant wipe for him and I was like uh no thanks! I was walking around trying to find something to do so wouldnt have to but as I walk into the bathroom he turns his rump right towards me and was like well what are you waiting for? So I grab some toilet paper and I start wiping and this big ole poop log comes out of his butt and he was like "Thar she goes" I was so disgusted! So I keep wiping, its real hard because I dont know how hard to wipe because alot of old people get so mad if we hurt them...obviously. So im wiping and I throw a piece of toilet paper into the toilet and I miss! So I bend down to pick it up and as im coming back up my face was literally centimeters away from his butt! He could have blown out a fart or pooped and it would have been all over my face. It was scary I was so worried about just brushing up against it! Needless to say it was ridiculous and scary and kinda funny now looking back on it all. That was probably the funniest part of that day. My second clinical was horrible. I dont know what it was but the smell was horrible that day. I was disgusted by the staff and that they let it get that bad! But I just had a few bad expierences. I dont want to talk about it ha. And then clinical 3 which was yesterday was really good. I talked to alot of the old people and they are alot of fun. One guy who lives there is 102 yrs old and he can walk around and he talks, he is seriously so funny! But he was a billionaire before he came and he has a ton of letters on his wall from a building company, he donated the money to build 2,000 houses. He owns the copyright of the original 10 Commandments movie. He donated like 2 billion dollars to our church and the prophet wrote him a letter thanking him and wishing him a happy birthday. He donated all the rest of his money to other random charities and church's because he doesnt have any relatives and he said he just wanted to die broke. His wife died at this nursing home so he said he plans on living there till he dies too. He's a cool guy. But now back to the lady at the begining of my story. This lady had been sitting in her chair all day. She didnt want to be moved and most of the CNA's just kinda leave her alone. So they just let her sit there all day in the same breif. So me and this other girl go in and kinda explain to her what were doing and she just starts freaking out and yelling all these things but we just get her up and move her and we have to change her breif and she flips! She was swinging right and left and she slapped me right across my face! I was so mad and then she throws in "go to hell!" It was intense. But yesterday was probably the best day Ive had! I played bingo with them for an hour! It was great. Ill be done in 2 weeks I cant wait!



Now on to my date. Last night I went on my date with Alton. It was a blind date kind of thing and Kalie and her friend Shawn just kinda set the whole thing up. But anyways he picked me up at 6:30 and we went to eat. He took me to La Paloma this restaruant in solomon. It was pretty good. I got 3 shredded beef flour enchiladas or something like that. They were kidna hot but really good. On the way their we talked about how he ended up in Safford, the whole mine thing thats going on, Just kinda everything. It was good. At the restaraunt we kinda just did the same thing. He is a plane mechanic but he flies as well so we talked about that forever. It was good, it was just us 2 so I was freaking out the whole time about how akward I thought it was going to be but it turned out pretty good. We had our akward silences but they were minimal haha and it wasnt that bad. After dinner we went to the movie theatre...we have 7 movies playing here and we hadn't heard of any of them. So we decided to go to his house and watch one of his. When we got there we checked out his house, he bought it from his grandma so she could retire but now he is re-doing alot of it. He's starting with the kitchen. It is a mess haha there is an akward wall in his kitchen so he ripped it out. He took down all the cabinets its literally a mess. There was plaster all over the floor and there's no tile it was funny. But he explained what he's going to do, he is going to have an awesome kitchen when he is done though. His whole house will be really nice. But we finally got into the living room and we looked at all his movies. I hadnt seen alot of them so he was picking out ones he said I needed to watch but we narrowed it down to a few and we ended up with "Top Secret". hahaha it was the weirdest movie, picture Airplane but 10 times worse. Before we could watch it though he had to move all the random stuff thats all shoved in the living room. He has basically everything his grandparents had still and everything that the rest of the family didnt take is shoved into this room while he's redoing the kitchen. I felt helpless just watching him. He had to move this big china cabinet and a grandfather clock, it was way to much for just a movie, but he was a sport and moved it all himself. The movie was funny but definatley a one time watch. He felt bad I didnt like it, he was like you should have just told me to turn it off we could have watched another one! But it was ok. After that it was kinda akward again...no misty we didnt make out... it would have been nice though hahaha. But we just sat there and talked about all his plans for the rest of the house. We talked about hurling, he's really into that, and we talked about photography. He is big into that and he has a real talent. That took up alot of time. After that we went into his office and he showed me a lot of pictures on flickr that he's done, he is seriously so good. We watched a little bit of a hurling game so I could see what it was all about, and let me tell you its the craziest sport ever! Look it up its intriguing. But all in all it was good. He took me home after that and that was our date. He seems like a cool guy. It was kinda weird at first like I said but in the end we kinda warmed up to eachother. We'll see what happens.