So the "big" day has approached quickly, about 14 hours away to exact....I have been praying for months for a calm and confident spirit as I walk in my first day and I have also prayed over my patient (asking that it not be too complicating a case or a mean spirited patient!).
Saturday I went to the hospital with my clinical partner Tyler to gather our patient information so we could start writing our patient profiles. All dressed in "professional dress" and wearing our pressed lab coats we hopped on the elevator and road to the second floor (we're on the orthopedic floor). It was scary and yet exciting. I totally felt like I was part of Grey's Anatomy, ha, although I'm sure I looked like a first-timer as I stumbled to choose which way to get around the nurses station. Right or left seems simple until you have to make the choice ha! Anyways what should have taken an hour took us about two and a half. Navigating the computer system was quite challenging, especially when you get locked out twice! (That would be my luck right?!)
As scary as it is to think that I will be caring for someone tomorrow it was so neat to be sitting at a desk reading about the patient I have prayed for for so many months! The problems and interventions we read about and practice in lab were right in front of my face. And while I sympathize with the patient who has to endure the hardships, it's neat to see my knowledge be applied.
Anyways, on my way out of the hospital I stepped into the crosswalk and low and behold there was a shiny penny laying in the street! For those who don't know my story behind pennies I will share it some other time but all I could do was smile. Tyler thought I was crazy for picking it up, I mean to him it was just a penny, but I neatly tucked it in my lab coat pocket and said "Thank you God." I'm sure tomorrow I will be a little nerved but I know that when I walk into that hospital God is with me. I am going to be His hands and feet tomorrow and that excites me!
