I have been at work for about 2 months now. It is going good, most days, I still feel lost and out of place trying to learn what to do. It can only get better, I hope.

GRADUATION DAY!

CHECK THIS OUT! Kayce and Brad decorated Erins room a little for graduation. I helped a little too. - Joshua

I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made it out of school and I have a job!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not think I would make it out or have a job. I start work tommorrow and I have graduation tomorrow evening.

3 and a half weeks

I am down to 3 and a half weeks!!!!! I have so much to do I am not sure how I am going to get done. I lived through the city. I was scared to death when I had to go in front of the judges. I had to tell the about all 3 photos I had taken. I thought I had messed up. So Friday we went to the awards things and my part came up, my stomach started to get more knots. They started calling names stating at 5th place after that I was sure I did not place. They get to 3rd and call my name, I was shocked!!! I had to go on stage in front of 1700+ people to get my metal. SCARY!!!

The new count down is 6 weeks. I am 124 cases down and just have 36 more to go and I will have them ALL done. I cant wait until then after that I will have to go back to class and do more class work before I am able to take my final exams. Next week I will not be able to get any cases because I will be in the city with my class. I don't know what is going to happen will have to give info when I get back.

I know it has been a long time. I am now on the down hill with school I have 9 weeks left, cant wait. I now have 94 out of 166 case's. I am also quiting work so I only have school. Today I got to help with the removal of a brain tumor. The tumor was about the size of a fist.

Strong Like Bull, Smart like Streetcar!

WELL, I know the smart like streetcar is correct! Brad has been "helping" us work on the house. He was so excited, I dont think he believed my when I told him he wasnt man enough to knock this little half wall down! As long as I got to video it I wasnt gonna stop him. BRAD, STRONG LIKE BULL, SMART LIKE STREETCAR! AHHHHHHAHAHA. Hopefully we will be finished with this house this weekend. I'm exhausted, work and work and school and trigonometry(thats enough to kill anyone)

The count down is to May 13th. I went back to the hospital to day and got to go to the heart room and got to see the lungs breath and the heart pump. Very cool, it was a long case but the time went by very fast and it was neat to see.

I made it the first week back over the break. It was hard getting back in there. In the OR I got to help put in a pacemaker, that is the only new thing I got to see. Now I am starting to count down how many months I have left.

Christmas break is almost over it was good but went by way to fast. Josh got me an MP3 player and put great songs on it. We got dance revolution for Christmas, which is really hard, and guitar hero, that is fun. Josh is going down : ). Over the break we got to go to 2 Cavalry basketball games. They were fun and we got free stuff, what could be better. When I fail out of school I am going to become a Cavs dancer hehe.

This week

This week has not been my week. First, last Wednesday I was double gloved and had a drill bit go thought them almost piercing my finger. This week I have been sick yesterday I could not scrub in and stayed home and today I had to steep back out of the surgery because I got very dizzy. A big part of that is because I have really had anything to yesterday or this morning. This afternoon I got to scrub in on a hip replacement, that is something I have not seen yet so that was neat to see how a hip replacement is done. Got to go to work now.

JUMPING IN PART 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back to scared to death, but I made in thought the first day of clinicals!!! That means 2 cases down only 158 more to go. Today I got to scrub in on a c-section and a laparorscopy tubal ligation.

JUMPING IN!!!!!!!!

I start going to the hospitals tomorrow I am going from scared to death to getting excited!!! Yesterday and this morning I was thinking what did I get myself into and did not know if I was going to be able to handle it. Now I am ready to go, I don't know if I will feel the same way in the morning but I am ready right now : ).

Josh and I went to the Cavs game last week. We had a really good time and I am looking forward to going to another game. We had a good Thanksgiving we got to spend time with both families it was a nice day. I start going to the hospitals on Thursday : O, oh no!! I am ready and also scared.

I PASSED

I PASSED!!!!!!!! I am good to go to the hospitals. I did not think I was going to get through the check off.

Josh and I had a good afternoon out by the wildlife refuge it was a nice time just to relax after a long week with school and work. We go to pet a zonkey, horse, and miniature donkeys. On top of having fun with the animal we also got to see a great view. Josh was making fun of me because we heard something and the grass moving, so I ran to catch with him, he says it was a rat but I am not so sure about that and I did not want to find out. The only horse we go to pet was a bully he keep scaring the other animals away because he wanted us all to himself. There are more pics on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshanderininlawton/!

Monday I had a chance to go back to the OR, this time I got to scrub in. I got to scrub in on an LAVH (laparoscopic hysterectomy) and a DNC. I also got to watch a graft put on an artery. It was fun. I have the check off starting on Tuesday that say if I and able to go out to the hospital. The check of will take an hour to an hour and a half. SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Erin

Things happening with school

I have an instrument test today and got my first 100!!!!!! I also found out that Monday we will be going back to the OR to watch but we get to scrub in and will most likely be in a room with out another classmate like we have done the other times. Hopefully work will be slow on Halloween because I have to work and be at a fundraiser for school. If work is slow I will be able to get off and not be to late to the fundraiser. - Jalapeno hehe

HOWDY

Just a quick reminder of what Erin looked like before she turned blonde.

HEHE! I'm bored and I also found a few more old pics. Such as

Looks like Medieval Times to me and a giant hotdog!

AIRSHOW

I survived the Airshow! It was incredible. We got to see acrobats, fighter jets, vintage military aircraft, and even a few stealth flying wings, you know B2 bombers and F117'st Check out all the pics on flckr.