PS, for those of you who were lost to me (blogroll) could you please e-mail me your blog so that I can once again add you to my blogroll? singingintherain23@yahoo.com. Thanks!

Oh, and I just saw the coolest thing the other day while on a call. Me and my partner got called to a bee sting, and the pt’s airway was closing really fast. My partner tried intubating (putting a tube down the throat into the trachea), but could not pass the tube. Her airway was too small for the tube to pass through, and shrinking fast. So my partner had to preform a surgical cric (cutting the throat open and sticking a tube through the hole into the trachea to get an airway). Hardly ever has to happen, and usually when it does, it doesn’t end well. But it was that or let the pt die. Fortunately this one ended really well and pt should be going home from the hospital any day now. It was so awesome! I am so glad that I got to see it done before I was in the position of having to do it myself. I mean, I could have done it if I had to, but seeing it done on a live person verses practicing on manikins are two very different scenarios. You can mess up as much as you want on a manikin and not kill it. Now that I have seen it done on a real person, I know that if I ever have to do it (knock on wood that I never have to, wouldn’t wish that on anyone), I won’t be so scared.

Well, life has been super busy lately. Been working A LOT (between 50-80 hours a week). I am trying to save up some money to come to WA in Sept. I have already bought the tickets, so I can’t back out. Just need some spending money and money for time I won’t be working to pay the bills. One thing that sucks about being part-time… no vaca time. But I don’t mind too much. It all works out.

Daisy is keeping busy too. Durring the summer, her school takes a lot of field trips. They go to the rec pool every monday, to the library, and to the movies. She loves it. She is still in gymnastics, and loves it. This week the carnival was in town and we went on all the rides. She was kind of bumbed because she was still too little to go on two rides, the really scary ones, which she really wanted to go on. But she had fun anyways. We hooked up with some of her friends and we were there until it closed.

In other very belated news… I am an auntie now. So yeah for me!!! Topher James Nelson was born on 4/28. I know that it is really late to anounce, but it has been a long time since I blogged. So here is a a couple of recent pics of him that my sister sent me via cell phone.

~In her special leotard~

~On the balance beam~
(me and my camera have issues sometimes, sorry it is kind of blurry)

~Summersault~

~Getting her Medal~

~Her Medal~

The pic is from my phone, so it isn’t so great, but you can still see her and her team chasing after the ball. She is in the blue, second in from left.

~Happy Easter Everyone!~

My other two jobs are going great, though. I have been picking up a ton of hours. Last week I worked 74 hours just EMS (plus 4 hours at the fitness center). I have even been broken from being scared of the haunted base. Seems like they like to schedule me there a lot. The first two nights I worked there, the partner that I was working with babied me and he slept in the living room with me. He slept on the recliner, and I slept on the couch. The first night, I was terrified, and I swear that I heard footsteps. But the last three nights that I have spent there, I have had a different partner and he refused to sleep in the living room with me. He even made me sleep in Millie’s (the ghost’s)  room. I had to sleep with the door open and the hall light on, but I survived and didn’t hear any crazy noises. (people say they hear screams, footsteps, cupboard doors open and shut. also that doors open and shut and lights turn on and off by themselves.) The story is that someone (Millie) killed themselves in the house before it was bought by EMS. There is even a bullett hole in the fireplace in the living room. It is kind of freaky, but I am getting used to the idea of sleeping there now. I still don’t like the idea of sleeping in a haunted place, but I can deal with it.