Holy War Week

 Im currently starting this blog on Saturday at 4pm - two hours before the holy war so hopefully this night ends well or else that'll be sad. Anyways it's been a heck of a week. More like a mental battle of a week. One of those weeks where I have some looming doom hanging over my head haha. But as it normally does everything worked out which Im happy to report. There are a few things that could potentially stop me from graduating in two months and that is 1. passing my virtual final assessment this week and 2. getting all my hours in for clinic because my school takes forever to approve my preceptors and then decides to deny them last minute. Ok so starting with number two actually - I had to swallow my pride and ask my preceptor Mark to be with him for 40 more hours one the next two weeks. He said yes, but ya never know how the person is saying things over text so I was still anxious to return to clinic with him on Thursday. I thought for sure he would give me crap or ask for more money or be a butthead. But that's not how it went at all and Im glad. His MA told me she was so glad to have me back and was upset when I said it was only for 40 more hours. Mark was also a good sport and was willing to help me out. We mostly just talked about football all day with the big game coming up this weekend. SO that lifted a little bit of the doom and gloom from my shoulders. Friday was my virtual final assessment which was the cause of a lot of the doom and gloom. I don't know why I stress so much about this stuff, but I hate performing things in front of people. I hate talking in front of people. I hate doing anything with an audience - especially when it is my really tough grader of a professor and if I don't get 84% or higher I fail the whole class. See? it makes sense why there was some doom hanging over me all week. The biggest thing was that I did receive my scenario until we started the call - so I really couldn't study for it. I just had to trust I knew at least in the ballpark how to treat this random patient. I studied very common symptoms in primary care like fatigue, shortness of breath and headache and what kind of differentials I would be dealing with and how to treat them. Well my scenario wasnt super common. Still common enough to where I crushed it, but not what I was expecting. My scenario was a 50 year old post-menopausal lady being seen for increased anxiety. Luckily, I have treated a fair amount of depression and anxiety at the primary care clinic Im currently at. I don't know the specific guideline recommendations, but I just went with what we do in clinic and I was right. I got a 96.5% woohoo. And there goes another big doom and gloom from my life. 

Madi was kind enough to spend her fall break Friday being my pretend patient so that I could perform the physical exam on her - except there really isn't that crazy of a physical exam to perform on a patient with anxiety besides listening to lungs and heart, but she was a good emotional support too haha. 

After I passed my final - we celebrated with some house shopping. On top of school and work and a bunch of other stuff I am also in the middle of selling two of our rooms in our house. So there's been a few nights this week where I meet a future roommate and give them the tour and blah blah blah. Just another thing to the to do list. Anyways so me and Madi were in the mood to buy some home decor and halloween/fall stuff. AND I was craving a spoon roast which I had thrown in the oven earlier that afternoon - so we came home and had a lovely Sunday dinner on a Friday night. 

This morning we met with our landlords to walk through the house and renew our lease - plus Madi knows me and brought me a dutch bros, true friend. 

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Ok flash to Sunday afternoon now - BYU WON! two years in a row, I honestly think Im a Goodluck charm bc I mean Ive been a fan for the last two years and they've been good the last two years soooo ya. Karee invited me to watch at her sisters house - it was a crazy house full of byu kiddos, but it was fun. Good good game. I was texting and FaceTiming the hursts the whole time. The only thing that would've made the game better would've been to be with the hursts at the game like last year. Crazy that it's been a year since the miraculous win last year standing next to Erin. I still wonder all the time what Erin thinks of me being a pretty big football fan now. It sure does feel good to beat BYU and to not hear a peep of bad mouthing at work the next day as I work alongside all Utah fans. I was up pretty late last night especially considering it was a night before work. 

Repping my BYU shirt Erin gave me. 

Sunday was a work day. Even though I have two cardiothoracic patients it's still been a pretty chill Sunday which Im grateful for. A good group of nurses and a chill day always makes for happy nurses. Well that's my week. I don't think I have anything coming up this next week that is super gloom and doom which is good. Right now Im just trying to relax as I am awaiting to be approved for my next preceptor. Over hear praying that I dont have to postpone my last term due to clinical problems. Other than that life is looking up the next couple of weeks. Thank goodness. That's it - a good feeling to get yet another tough week over with. I am now officially down to single digits left in weeks of school - 9 to go. Yes, I am definitely counting down till December 22. Ok bye.