Today I started my morning doing my internship hours in the hospital Emergency Room. My heart nearly fell seeing one mother's anguish and her husband's strength keeping himself humble and tear free while consolling his wife and then seeing their young baby's strength really gave me an amazing perspective.
I had an amazing ER Tech to shadow. She showed me areas of the ER I hadn't seen before as well as showed me how to make sure the areas were properly supplied with necessary items. Some of the tasks were indeed tedious, but at the end of my 8 hour rotation I didn't want to go home. For me its not so much the job that defines me but the job helps me define my greater purpose.
I was leaving and a patient was being brought in by helicopter. If I didn't have my national registry EMT exam scheduled I would have loved to see the operations of how to care for someone that is transported to the facility in that manner. This timing couldn't have been any better it made me look forward to my helicopter internship time. I can't wait to schedule my day to ride along with CALSTAR and see the daily operations of the helicopter and its crew.
I took my exam which is a timed 150 question exam and I was blessed to only be required to take 60 of the questions. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the news I receive is glowing. I have to wait to receive the results.
When someone says you have great potential say "Thank You" and believe them that was my strengthening lesson today!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
In time you will do it
Today is the day where I affirmed my little red sticker that I kept stuck to my emt textbook all quarter long.
Months ago I donated blood and they gave me a little red sticker that said I did it. Those were the three words I wanted to be able to say when I obtained my certificate of completion for the EMT academy.
Today I did it. That certificate is still nice and flat and has only been viewed once for errors and now it is tucked away while I look forward to the next step. That next step is a written state exam that is only a few weeks away and I have some more studying to complete, but Im very much looking forward to the upcoming months.
I came home and went for a run. I started academy excited to think that we would be doing a lot more running I think in 16 weeks that the academy as a whole entity may have logged an entire mile of running. We did do a pushup or nearly 200 one day, but I was expecting a much more physically demanding class. What this academy lacked in physical demand it made up for in emotional and intellectual demand.
This is not something I thought I would ever do, but it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life as I found hidden strength even as I was sitting in my room yesterday evening reflecting as the tears of mixed emotion fell. Tears of knowing all the people that were so supportive along the way, tears of knowing it was over, tears of fear of facing that next challenge, but mostly just tears that I had overcome one more obstacle.
And the lesson I learned in all of this is in time it can all be done.
Months ago I donated blood and they gave me a little red sticker that said I did it. Those were the three words I wanted to be able to say when I obtained my certificate of completion for the EMT academy.
Today I did it. That certificate is still nice and flat and has only been viewed once for errors and now it is tucked away while I look forward to the next step. That next step is a written state exam that is only a few weeks away and I have some more studying to complete, but Im very much looking forward to the upcoming months.
I came home and went for a run. I started academy excited to think that we would be doing a lot more running I think in 16 weeks that the academy as a whole entity may have logged an entire mile of running. We did do a pushup or nearly 200 one day, but I was expecting a much more physically demanding class. What this academy lacked in physical demand it made up for in emotional and intellectual demand.
This is not something I thought I would ever do, but it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life as I found hidden strength even as I was sitting in my room yesterday evening reflecting as the tears of mixed emotion fell. Tears of knowing all the people that were so supportive along the way, tears of knowing it was over, tears of fear of facing that next challenge, but mostly just tears that I had overcome one more obstacle.
And the lesson I learned in all of this is in time it can all be done.
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