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More west coastin’

I just couldn’t pack it all into one post (it was getting obscene).  So now I’m trying to pick out the very best of the best to share.   Athenos hummus is G-O-O-D, good! Hummus and avocado = that’s AMORE!   NOM NOM. As for wedding and late night partying…most of those pics are too R rated for blogging 😉 Here are a few, though. The fam (L to R: youngest sis, middle sis, dad, mom, me) The girlies (above AND below).   Hooray for LA-LA-land friends!! I tried to hit up all my fave… Read more >

April (in Cliff’s Notes)

I don’t even know where to begin…this past week has been one of the most incredible times of my life.  Between getting engaged, visiting friends and family in Nor Cal and So Cal, my cousin getting married and my other cousin giving birth, it has been a fantastically memorable week.  Yes.  My only two cousins managed to coordinate the biggest events in their lives to overlap!!!!!!!!! My older cousin went into labor 5 weeks early, and ended up in the hospital on the night of the rehearsal dinner and gave birth to a healthy baby… Read more >

I’m going back to Cali, Cali, Cali

LL Cool J anyone?  For the second time in 2 weeks, I’m back on the west coast.  I still dreaded the long flight (I just hate flying in general), but this time Kyle was with me, so it was ok.  Plus, now the whole trip is gonna be one million times better 🙂 We are starting in Nor Cal…then heading to So Cal for my cousin’s wedding AND to visit with college friends (we both went to UCLA).  Plane snacks at the ass crack of dawn.   The apple was solid, the True Delights bar,… Read more >

Mr. Mrsa

Love my contact precaution patients.  Having a patient with a MRSA infection is a blessing in disguise.  Why you ask?  Because most of the other patients on the unit are high risk for infection in their fragile post-op state, so I can’t get a patient assignment with a fresh heart while I have my infected patient on contact isolation…score! I only had one patient today!  Granted he has a PEG with continuous tube feeds, tracheostomy requiring frequent suctioning, and IVs going around the clock…but still.  One parient = smooth sailing. I started work with a… Read more >