I guess this blog should start where all good blogs start. A little bit of history.
My mom got into the medical field when I was but a wee lass. At the time, the allied health college that she went to required Medical Assistants to go for three years before they would give her a diploma. A lot of work for a little pay. I remember being enamored with her gross clinical stories and then later, the stories that she would tell over the dinner table about disgusting bunion surgery and general foot funk that she saw during her preceptorship at a podiatrist's office. My dad would turn absolutely green and lose his appetite, but not me! I hungered for those stories.
In high school, my career path changed with the introduction of music into my life. I all but forgot about the medical field as I pursued a career teaching music. I ate, slept and breathed music. I won a partial scholarship to college to pursue music education, but as I attended and did typical eighteen year old things, I realized that music education just didn't hold the same passion for me as I'd previously thought. I dropped out of college and just worked a bunch of crap jobs.
I met my husband at a club a short time later. It was a few weeks before my 21st birthday. I ended up moving in with him pretty fast. Like...three weeks later, actually. Anyhow, I worked at a grocery store and then a video store for a little while. One day, I finally decided that I wanted to try to get skills for an actual career. I went to the employment office and spoke with a lady who set me up with a nursing home. I went to paid training and in three months, became a certified nursing assistant.
It's been ten years now and I've worked in the medical field in one capacity or the other since. I've worked in nursing homes, home health, post-partum, mother-baby tandem care, pediatric burn unit and currently, as an Emergency Department Technician. Throughout all of this, one thing remains a constant. I want to do this for the rest of my working life. I genuinely like helping people and though I'm just a bit jaded, I also employ just enough cynicism to balance it out.
Thus, this blog is born. It will be a place for me to giggle and relay my sordid tales of just what rolls in my ER and a place to document my journey as I begin nursing school this fall. Enjoy, fellow readers.
