job shadows

I saw 5 butts yesterday.

I went and job shadowed my friend at the hospital where she works as a nurse in the Endoscopy wing.... ward, section? I'm not sure what it's called actually. Anyway, I actually went to the wrong hospital at first. I didn't know there was a St. John Macomb-Oakland (Oakland) and a St. John Macomb-Oakland (Macomb), silly me. So I went to the one I knew existed by my old apt and was walking around. People were so nice to me, like oh you're observing us today? right this way, here is where we do this.. here is where we do that... and then when no one knew my friend, they were like are you sure you're at the right hospital? Um... what?? It was kind of embarrassing. So I zipped over to the right one and got started. I was first starting to panic when she was talking to me about what the nurses do, I was thinking, I don't know how to do that!, but then I remembered I was only observing and felt better. And later I thought I could have totally done what they were doing.

So anyway, I watched 5 colonoscopies. It was cool. I was wearing a little face mask to protect me from any 'splatters' and I was glad I had it on because this one patient farted continuously during the entire procedure and I was silently laughing the whole time. So I was glad no one could really see my face. I also got to watch 2 down the throat ones into the stomach looking for bleeding and the beginning of one into the bile duct. Neat stuff! People were so nice to me. I feel like being a student is such a door opener, oh you don't know anything? Let me show you and explain what I'm doing. So helpful! I feel almost like I could get them to let me observe anything! The nurse was asking the doctor if I could watch, and he turns his back to me and says I don't want any nursing students in here... especially good looking ones... in his little foreign accent. It was funny.

I start school on monday again and I am excited to go back. I saw Stan yesterday and was telling him I felt a bit bad about soon not to be a paralegal anymore. I asked him, am I becoming one of those people that gets their identities from their career?!? He said no, just that I worked hard for it. And he said anyone who came in and said they watched 5 colonoscopies with a smile on their face, was moving into the right career :)