December

Wow its cold at 630 AM. I cant wait till its warm again.

Laurel Brooke

So, most of you readers know that I now work at Laurel Brooke elder care, what you may not now is that after almost two months i am still in training. The boss had said she wanted me trained for as many halls as possible, but i am now trained for 2 of 3 shifts, in every hall. It has been a tiresome 2 months of learning names and treatments, only to be training somewhere else the next week. I am proud and relieved to say there is nowhere else to train. Starting next week i'm on my own! Yay!!!

Tuberculosis

It occurs to me that i get anxious easily. this Wednesday, My boss pulls me into the office (with her usual terrifying phone call). I'm at the desk, filling out paperwork, and the phone rings. Hayley says "Jessica. . can you come to the office for a moment?". Naturally i think WHAT DID I DO WRONG??? AHHH. So, gathering my courage, i walk down to the office, and knock on the door. She looks at me for a prolonged moment, then says its time for my yearly TB test, and i need to go to the manor for it before Saturday. Which naturally means i procrastinate till Friday.
On Friday, i go get the shot. a nurse sticks a needle just barely under my skin and injects a liquid in a large bubble into my arm. Witch we all know i found greatly amusing. Then the nurse says that i need to come back on monday so she can detect any swelling, and if the injection site does swell, it means i have tuberculosis and will need to me quarantined.
I spent the entire weekend staring at my arm trying not to panic over a bruised injection site. Naturally my mind had me dying in a hospital at the age of 29.
i didn't need to worry though, as i do not have TB. A different nurse informed me that if my arm had swelled, it would be roughly the size of a softball. The first nurse likes to freak people out.
Moral of the story: hold the anxiety until there is actual cause for it.