This has been such an insane week! Next week is so busy: a mandatory class for work, I picked up an extra shift for a friend, and Jen is leaving for Jamaica for 2 weeks. So, I thought that I wouldn't pick up any overtime and just have a nice, quiet week. Spend some time with Jen and try to squeeze in some girl time while I was at it. That was the plan, anyways. Of course it didnt' happen. My schedule got changed at the last second and I was on for Sunday, Monday, and Wednsday instead of my usual Tuesday. We were short-handed on Tuesday, so I offered to help out some.
My buddy next to was getting a new patient from the recovery room. The patient care techs from the floor he was previously on, brought down his belongings before he got there. They included a prosthetic leg (he is an amputee) and a shiny, apple red scooter. That should have been clue #1! The techs from the other floor just sort of throw everything into the room and we didn't pay much attention. When the patient got to the Unit, I helped Eileen move him from the stretcher to out bed. We were moving around alot and the candy apple red scooter was just in the way, so Tammy (our tech) decided to just shove it forward. Well, that plan backfired, because the chair back she was pushing on collapsed and nearly sent her flying across the now demon possessed scooter.
I decided I needed to help Tammy. It took the two of us a couple of minutes to figure out how to turn the dang thing on. We finally did get it to start, it rolled backwards over poor Tammy's foot! I asked if she was okay and she said "yeah", and we again started on the mission. We pulled on the other lever. She was behind the scooter and I'm in fron of it. Or, at least I was for a few minutes. The next thing we knew, she was laying across the front of the scooter (again), and I'm pinned between the tower in the room with wire baskets cutting into my back and the scooter. I was completely unable to breath!! Not because I was hurt, but because I was laughing SO hard!! I mean I was literally doubled over I was laughing so hard. I wanted to explode because we were trying to hold it.
Another one of my co-workers walked in at that moment, came over and looked at the speed obssessed scooter and said " Silly girls. You gotta turn the speed down from the tortoise to the hare. Then it won't get away from ya". These directions came complete with a dial with pictures of the infamous creatures on it. Sometimes, it helps to look at the machinery before you operate it...
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Jennifer
Jennifer, this was supposed to be posted a couple of weeks ago, but we've been busy...
Jen,
You graduated high school about 2 weeks ago. You marched down that proverbial last mile as a High School student before you walked across the stage as a High School Graduate! I was so proud of you! You looked so cute in your black sundress and gown and (too small) cap with the honor cords and ITS medallion. You looked so pleased and happy and content as you walked past the crowd. I cried just a little in that moment with so many thoughts running across my mind and heart.
You are no longer Baby JenJen. You don't stand behind me and pull my hair anymore. We haven't shared a bed in ages. Gone are the days of wrapping our selves up in blankets and pretending we were living in the Applacian hills when we played Chirsti. We don't argue nearly as much anymore. Most of them are over which shirt belongs to whom instead whose toys are whose. You have grown so much over the years, not only in physical heighth (you stagger over me), but also academically, emotionally, and spiritually. You are a pop-culture master, but you still have a deep appreciation and an occassional love for the Classics that you have performed over the years.
You are preparing to leave in a few days on a trip that will change your life in ways that we cannot even begin to fathom right now. I am immensly proud of you for taking this step of faith into the unknown; for giving up other trips that may have come your way and for the sacrifices and hard work that you have made to be able to go. You will do wonderfully as you teach the children about God's love for them not only in the lessons that you will teach, but also in the love that you will show them. It is because of these acts of love and your passion to make sure all children are show this that makes me proud to be your sister.
As you begin the journey to becoming the woman you are about to become remember this: God is with you always, to deliver you out of your trials, not through them. And that I love you, no matter what.
Your Big Sister,
Beth
Jen,
You graduated high school about 2 weeks ago. You marched down that proverbial last mile as a High School student before you walked across the stage as a High School Graduate! I was so proud of you! You looked so cute in your black sundress and gown and (too small) cap with the honor cords and ITS medallion. You looked so pleased and happy and content as you walked past the crowd. I cried just a little in that moment with so many thoughts running across my mind and heart.
You are no longer Baby JenJen. You don't stand behind me and pull my hair anymore. We haven't shared a bed in ages. Gone are the days of wrapping our selves up in blankets and pretending we were living in the Applacian hills when we played Chirsti. We don't argue nearly as much anymore. Most of them are over which shirt belongs to whom instead whose toys are whose. You have grown so much over the years, not only in physical heighth (you stagger over me), but also academically, emotionally, and spiritually. You are a pop-culture master, but you still have a deep appreciation and an occassional love for the Classics that you have performed over the years.
You are preparing to leave in a few days on a trip that will change your life in ways that we cannot even begin to fathom right now. I am immensly proud of you for taking this step of faith into the unknown; for giving up other trips that may have come your way and for the sacrifices and hard work that you have made to be able to go. You will do wonderfully as you teach the children about God's love for them not only in the lessons that you will teach, but also in the love that you will show them. It is because of these acts of love and your passion to make sure all children are show this that makes me proud to be your sister.
As you begin the journey to becoming the woman you are about to become remember this: God is with you always, to deliver you out of your trials, not through them. And that I love you, no matter what.
Your Big Sister,
Beth
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