Far Far Away, in closing

I packed quite a bit into my last week here in Far Far Away. I spent two sleepless days with my brother in Little City (we saw Rise of Planet of the Apes and got up to the usual shenanigans. It was pretty awesome.), and then spent as much time as I could with my cousins at FHB. And yeah, I don't really have much more to say on this.

This summer I think I went on twenty-nine ambulance runs, the longest being about over five hours round trip and the shortest being fifteen minutes. One ground transfer which took ten hours round trip. Three or four medevacs to Big City and like twelve medevacs to Little City. It might have been more, but they've all blended together now. Dead weight has taken on a much more literal meaning for me and I have come to greatly appreciate the rare few fully cooperative patients. That or the unconscious patents, but they bring up other issues.

Clinic side, I started off just shadowing the provider and moved to scribing (she dictates her notes, I write it), to helping with procedures to actually doing some of the procedures. I had a lot of hands on experience with patients with many common ailments in all age groups, some not so common issues, and I got to see things from all sides. At least, all sides present in the clinic. From picking the patient up, to rooming the patient (and other nurse's duties), to doctor's visit, to radiology, to labs, to patient care, to pharmacy and if need be to transferring. I saw firsthand just how bad the insurance companies can be/how bad they are doing and came to a good understanding of what would happen if we switched to socialized health care.

On the home front, I developed a slightly healthier lifestyle and became more active. I got to see a loquacious little girl go from barely comprehensible gibberish to mostly understandable polysyllabic words. I was able to spend more time with my brother than I have in a long time, I saw and stayed with family members who, unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to spend enough time with. Most importantly and above all else I had fun and believe this summer was well spent.

Now I'm sitting in the airport in Little City, waiting to board my flight to SeaTac. I'll get home sometime tomorrow. Once there I'll have about three days before I need to head off to school and get back into the college grind.

I'm not really sure to do with this blog now. As soon as I board the plane it will have served its purpose and I truly believe that blogs like this are what's wrong with the 'blogosphere'. It doesn't actually provide any content or anything useful. It's just a journalesque medium for someone to ramble on. I suppose I could keep rambling on throughout the school year, although I imagine that would be significantly less interesting.

Meh.