It's only week 3 and I'm not sure I CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday I had an entire 45 minutes with nothing to do (waiting for Doug to pick me up at work) so I decided to use the time wisely...... I hopped on the treadmill, put my text book on the book holder and grabbed my knitting. YES SIREEE, I said grabbed my knitting. I walked on the treadmill, read my class reading and KNITTED all at the same time All the fall shows are starting and I won't be able to watch a single one. Doug said he can TVO them but WHEN AM I GOING TO WATCH THEM?? WHY OH WHY OH WHY am I doing this??????????  |
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because youre brilliant and an overachiever 
how the heck do you knit and walk and read at the same time...that sounds like an accident waiting to happen 
oh and i forgot to add that is why you are probably such a bad speller.....always in too much of a hurry..... |
Tasker's Mom wrote: All the fall shows are starting and I won't be able to watch a single one. Doug said he can TVO them but WHEN AM I GOING TO WATCH THEM?? Who needs sleep? You can used time usually wasted sleeping to watch TV  |
Darcy wrote: oh and i forgot to add that is why you are probably such a bad speller.....always in too much of a hurry.....
 i love you too darc!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Wow~~~ Ginny...
I'm extremely impressed...I can't tread mill and talk at the same time......... You are truely amazing............. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| I'd be really looking forward to December 11 if I were you! |
hehehehe....nothin' but love and truth here....  |
Wow! I too am impressed by the walk-read-knit ability!   You are a NINJA! 
If you can do that, then you can do ANYTHING! Go Girl!  |
Where is the superwoman emoticon when you need it??  |
| It's a pain now, but it'll be worth it when it's over, right? |
1st Time OES Mommy wrote: Where is the superwoman emoticon when you need it??
YEA RON, WHERE IS IT????????????? 
Well, I'm turning off my computer, headed for my overnight shift at Slaterville. Tomorrow morning I leave at 7AM to spend the day at the Medical School Cadaver lab in Syracuse playing with body parts. Tomorrow night it's back to Slaterville for the night them Sunday I have shift at the local ER.......sigh and so it begins. |
| Go girl, go girl!!!
I must have missed what the class was, but it certainly sounds killer. I have been there with that schedule - it really bites! I love to read and for a 2 yr period I didn't get to read a single book for fun!! (only text books) Let alone watch TV, knit or anything. Hang in there and you shall reap the rewards!!! |
Tasker's Mom wrote: Tomorrow morning I leave at 7AM to spend the day at the Medical School Cadaver lab in Syracuse playing with body parts.
Gross!!  Sounds like a fun Saturday! Does anyone ever borrow some of the "parts" to take home for Halloween? heh heh
Sorry! is that mean for the parts' owners? 
Seriously though, I'm sorry your schedule is so tough right now! You really do deserve a superwoman picture! You can do it! |
| Yeah, why ARE you doing this? And what is "THIS?" |
| Ginny, you can do this. You love your job and this will help you do it even better.
My daughter is in her first year of PT school. She is in the same meltdown mode state right now. And she would love to go with you to the anatomy lab. (She was an anatomy lab TA last year and loved it) Remember that the stress is only temporary. Your schedule will get better and you will appreciate the time off more when you actually have some. Get a video IPod and buy the shows for a buck when you have time to watch them. |
I am proud of you for putting your self through this you can do it I'm just glad you were not running on the tread mill. You know what they say about running with knitting needles.. I think that's siccors anyway you'll be great and I don't have an excuse for my bad spelling. Don't worry it will all come together - hang in there  |
| Keep your eye on the finish line and it's rewards......the rest is just flotsam (accumulation of misc or unimportant STUFF) trying to trip you up. But I doubt that will happen if you can walk the tredmill-read-knit at the same time! |
| It's probably the first ever treadreadknitmill |
ravenmoonart wrote: Wow! I too am impressed by the walk-read-knit ability!
You are a NINJA! If you can do that, then you can do ANYTHING! Go Girl! Ditto! You CAN DO IT!! |
Tasker's Mom wrote: I said grabbed my knitting. I walked on the treadmill, read my class reading and KNITTED all at the same time.
Wow! Talk about multi-tasking! If I tried that I'd probably stab myself, break a leg and get hit in the head by the book as I fell off the treadmill. Good luck. |
Ron wrote: Yeah, why ARE you doing this? And what is "THIS?"
"This" is a 16 credit two semester endeavor involving, in addition to 8 hours of class each week, HUNDREDS of hours of clinical time to prepare to take the NYS Critical Care exam in May. So I THEN can perform Advanced Life Support measures on the Ambulance. All so my pay can double ( what is double of ZERO????) NY State in it's infinate wisdom has decided that the fact that I have been a nurse in a hospital for over 20 years is irrelevant. I must spend every Sunday from now til FOREVER working (for free-called clinical time) in two different emergency rooms. I also need to complete "ride time" on two ambulance services one day a week til I accumulate a specifice number and type of patients. I could start a whole new post about my experience in cadaver lab yesterday but I will just leave it at I'm REALLY glad I aonly have to spend ONE day there. Medical students spend a semester or two and that must be a wretched experience. Perhaps at some point you stop thinking about the "person" laying there but it doesn't happen in one day!!!! |
| Gasp Ginny you sound like I did a few years ago!
You can do it!!!! It's tough schedule for sure but the end result will be well worth it. Just take some time to smell the roses, coffee, and check in on us - promise? Marianne |
| I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that has considered knitting, reading and walking on a treadmill, but I haven't tried it... yet...
Good luck getting through everything, I know you can do it! |
| Ginny, didn't you have a cadevar in your anatomy lab in nursing school?
I did. And I still remember her - what she looked like, what we decided she died from and the things we found (she aspirated a peanut at some point). We wrote her family a letter at the end of the semester, thanking them for the knowledge that we gained from her. There were rules that we had to agree to follow before we were allowed to take the class. And if we broke the rules, we would have been expelled from the university. My daughter took the same class I did, excelled in it and was asked to be a Teaching Assistant for the lab. She loved learning about the human body. Now that she is in Physical Therapy school, the extra time in lab as a TA has made her classes so much easier. She wrote a thank you letter to her anatomy Professor for choosing her to be a TA and the extra knowledge it gave her. They have a special service for each of the cadavers at the end of the semester. Some of the kids in her class are from different colleges and didn't have the opportunity to work on cadavers. Those kids are at a huge disadvantage in the upper level anatomy classes. While my daughter is able to remember what it looked like, they are forced to imagine it. I was shocked to find out that some schools use a CAD program instead. I am already signed up to donate my body to the university for student use. I will be dead anyway and won't need it. |
| We did not have a cadaver lab in nursing school. Instead we attended a number (can't remember how many) autopsies with a Pathologist lecturing as he did the autopsy.
I have worked in the OR a great deal, and seen lots of autopsies (anytime someone died in the cath lab we attended the autopsy). And, I gotta tell you a living being opened up or "fresh dead" are a WHOLE LOT different than cadaver lab. I have always said I wanted to donate my body to the Med school in Syracuse....now I'm not so sure. It was all done clinically and respectfull but the whole thing bothered me. Maybe because I am older now. I don't know. |
| I am truly impressed with not only your school work but with your treadmill abilities. I have trouble keeping my balance when it's just ME on there. I start daydreaming and then find myself coming close to the edge (sides). You are amazing. |
Tasker's Mom wrote: ...And, I gotta tell you a living being opened up or "fresh dead" are a WHOLE LOT different than cadaver lab.
I have always said I wanted to donate my body to the Med school in Syracuse....now I'm not so sure. What do you mean, a living being opened up??
Donating your body to science does seem a little scary. I plan on donating my organs, but I think I'll keep my body in the casket. |
| We (art students) also got to dissect a cadaver when I was in collage. It was an amazing experience! Oddly enough, the class where you do this is called "Life Drawing" |
1st Time OES Mommy wrote: What do you mean, a living being opened up??
surgery, i worked in the OR |
| Im glad youre hanging in there!!! keep it up.....wish you were my or nurse!! |
| Wow, Ginny! Just reading all this made me tired! I SO admire you for doing this. Don't envy you, but admire you!
My son went to Syracuse University, so I know the area well. Been to Dinosaur's Grill lately??? |
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