Cheering from the cheap seats

Boy, someone must have gotten good and pissed, because we had our summer schedules today. The only things I have left to take are Advanced Med Surg and OB/Peds. I was hoping for Med Surg in the summer because it's harder than OB/Peds and I wanted to get the worst out of the way so I can have an easier semester and focus on NCLEX. It makes for a really crappy summer, but if I can take my ex husband for 10 years, I can surely handle a brutal 10 weeks. Nope. Didn't happen. I am in the 1/3 of the class who got OB/Peds. I was disappointed at first, but then, since I'm helpless to do anything else about it, I'm looking on the bright side. We'll have 10 students in my clinical group. I don't live in a large city, and there is an excellent childrens' hospital 70 miles away. If we're lucky, they'll be 2-3 pediatric patients for all of us to work with. We do have lots of babies though.

When you live in a low income, poorly educated area, there are always lots of babies. I guess since none of them work, and using meth doesn't take up all of their time, they have babies. I may be a little bitter because (through my volunteer stuff) I just attended a termination hearing where the rights of a parent, for the 3rd time, were terminated. Her justification for keeping THIS one was because she is now clean. She got arrested for possession of shit to make meth, and she has to stay clean to avoid jail. That is the incentive she needed to stay clean. 3 kids didn't make the cut, but God forbid she spends another night in jail!! Plus, in my little corner of Paradise, with a population of less than 60,000, we have had 8 battered babies since the 1st of the year. Folks, that is a shitload. I'm not talking bruises here. These are critically injured kids. Enough of that. I could go on all day about this.

Anyway, I am now officially enrolled, and my financial aid is a done deal. A big shout out to whoever had the hissy fit and made this happen.