(I have been documenting some of my finer points in nursing school and just haven't published yet. Here is one I'd love to share that was originally written on 9/10/08. Enjoy.)
Today was the first morning that the boys had Julie come to pick them up and drop them off at daycare for me. I have to be at clinical at 6:45, the daycare doesn't open until 7:00, and Sebastian leaves between 6:15-6:30 in the morning- so you see my dilemma.
Julie is my solution to that (more on her later)
It was a rough transition, because the boys were leaving with someone other than their mother before the sun was up, and then they got to watch me drive away. I would have felt more pangs of guilt tug at my heart, but my heart was already racing and probably couldn't take much more - because I was running late to get to clinical.
I drove up, parked, and raced my way to the hospital entrance. And then I looked down. And saw that I was wearing sandals.
Sandals! To work in a hospital.
I did that pivot back and forth thing that you do when you don't know if you should continue on, or track back. I continued on and explained to my professor that I was there. And that my shoes weren't.
She was very understanding and it wasn't that big of a deal. Except for the fact that some of the girls were teasing me about how some day in semester 4 someone would bring up how Becky showed up to 1st clinical in sandals. Ha.Ha.
Lucky for me, my best friend lives in the neighborhood just behind the hospital (and is actually a nurse there). I made the emergency phone call to her. I explained that I had shown up to clinical in sandals.
Y'all want to know what the first words out of my BEST FRIEND'S mouth were???
Girl, are you wearing your Chanel's???
I love her.
(per request, the sandals worn will be posted. when I find time to charge the camera)
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I didn't realize sandals where not allowed on clinicals! Even Crocs?
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