What's your Puritan name?

So, today was quite enjoyable, as we renamed almost everyone we know... it all started in prayership when we were joking about leaving the prayer requests up, but changing the names, and then someone said, let's change them to puritan names! like perSEVerence (notice the inflection) or prudence or something. they turned into more pilgram's progress type names as we progressed throughout the day, though... (*well, this website validates most of them!) here are some of the final results:

Me: Rejoice
Anna B.: Faith
Anna P.: Charity
Valerie: Constance
Joanna: Mercy
Michael: Steadfast
Stephen: Discernment
Josh: Meditation
Lee: Wisdom
Andrew: Judgement
Claire: Harmony
Deborah: Grace? I'm not sure if we decided...
Jordan: Perseverence
Blake (i.e. the intern): Forbearence
Linsday (i.e. the intern's wife): Truth
Jason (i.e. the campus minister): Exhortation
Susie (i.e. the campus minister's wife): Comfort

other names we never used: Obedience, Courage, Prudance, and I'm sure many more...

Next week... Native American names! I'm thinking mine will be "she-who-talks-a-lot"

That little light...

So, I am pleased to announce that the light at the end of the tunnel- it still exists. I had my doubts all semester, but I feel like I can finally see the end and not feel overwhelmed by the mass amounts of work between me and there. Granted, I still have stuff to do, I still have 3 tests and 3 finals, and group projects and paperwork, but I can see the end. And this is amazing. I feel so incredibly less stressed than I have been all semester. It's pretty exciting. I like feeling like I can breathe again. Granted, this could mean that I might end up having a major lack of motivation in the rest of the work this semester, but hopefully not.

Other than that, there really is no exciting news to report. Clinicals have been good, and I've enjoyed getting to learn and see new things. I'd tell you lots of in detail stories, but I feel like people just get grossed out. But if you want to know, I'm more than happy to share. My patient last week was probably my favorite, and I already miss him a lot. He was this little 73 year old man who had had a stroke and couldn't speak, but he was so sweet. and fiesty. We had to start a new IV on him, and he hated it, and I had told him earlier his nurse was going to come in to try and start it again, and he gave me this awful face, and i was like, yeah, i know. and then she came in, he tried to shoo her out, and then turned and gave me grief, shaking his finger at me- i could just hear him saying "i told her you not to bring her in here!"

It's made me think a lot about my own grandparents and parents one day being sick and in the hospital, and how blessed I am they are all healthy right now. And how important it is that we are giving them compassionate care.

Right now, I'm just pysched about thanksgiving break. and I'm looking forward to my internship in janterm and adult and OB next semester. lots of fun stuff to look forward to. But I'm also trying to remember to live in the present.


and oh my gosh. Grey's Anatomy is RIDICULOUS!!!!