SNOW!!!

Today we got our first snow of the season! I am so excited. It wasn't cold enough to stick but none the less it was pretty.

I have my last offical class day on Wednesday of this week for a review day for our final. We have test 5 on Friday and then our final exam on the following Thursday and Friday. I can't believe I am almost done with my first class. I do love school, it just really makes this time of year tough, with me not working. It just seems like every year it's something new to make it even harder. I am just a little bored, William sits in the office and watches football or plays on the computer and starting tomorrow I feel like I am not dedicated to my school work if I am not studying for my tests. There's not a whole lot to do, no money, house is clean, no family close. Just alot of things all coming together or falling apart all at once.


William in the snow.

The horses playing in the snow.

Icicles on the Christmas lights.

Not much snow, but enough!

Thanksgiving...

My mom, brother and his girlfriend arrived from West Memphis on Wednesday night for Thanksgiving. Thursday morning William started the Turkey and I cooked all the other dishes. Sometime during the morning while we were cooking lunch someone drove by ans threw a bottle of baby food through my moms passenger window on her car. Thursday afternoon we all headed out to Bella Vista to go for a hike at Tanyard Creek. After, the hike we went down to Fayetteville to see Lights of the Ozarks. Friday we went and got the window fixed on my moms car, got a really good deal on a Christmas present for William and colored my hair RED.

Us at Tanyard Creek



Me at Lights of the Ozarks.

My new RED hair.

Clincials are over!

Yesterday was our last day in the hospital for clincials this semester. Today we finished up by each of us giving our clincials presentation. Nothing big, 10-15 min. in length about on of the patients we had this semester. I did mine on Small Bowel Obstruction. I am including a picture of my clincial group at the end of this. I have thoroughly enjoyed this semester, it has been a huge learning experience and alot of fun! At times, not so good but I can look back now and see how much fun it was!

On Wednesday I started getting what I thought was the flu, I was very achy. Thursday I woke up with a runny now and felt just as bad. Since it was the last day of lecture for this semester, I went ahead and went to class. I took my box of kleenex & the bottle of TheraFlu so I could survive. Well, on Thursday night when I was home I started getting chilled with a fever. I ended having a 99.9 temp. I took some medicine and headed to bed. I woke up Friday morning a little better but really getting worse overall. I woke up with a horrible sore throat, coughing & more snot than I cared to ever have!!! I have been through 2 full boxes of 60 kleenex per box and I am working on my next one! Saturday morning I woke up for clincials and had no voice! I took my medicine and headed off to clincials since it was the last day I really couldn't miss unless I had had a fever in the past 24 hours. Saturday afternoon, I took a nap and just seemed that no matter what it wasn't getting any better no matter what I did so I got William to take me to Well Quest at 6:30. Well, the Dr. told me I have a horrible sinus infection, he gave me a antibiotic-ZPac, a decongestant-Ala-Hist D, a steroid nose spray-Flonase, & a steroid shop IN MY REAR! Boy did that hurt! Well I slept wonderfully! I even came home today from our clincial presentation and cleaned my entire kitchen and living room. All I have left are the3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. I still have a little cough and a runny nose, but I can't complain too much. I'm gonna take some Nyquil before bed tonight to make sure I do sleep good so I can finish cleaning before my mom and brother gets here on Wednesday. Anyways, enough rambling about how sick I have been!

I found out today that I made a 94 or 97 on my Pharmacology Evaluation from Thursday, either way they are both A's. Our instructor also told us that everyone in our clincials groups passed clincials, YEAH!



Back row from Left to Right, Mrs. Verwey(our instructor), Sally Albright(my 2nd mother), Amy Warren(my bestest Christian friend in class), Sky Shabatura; Front row from Left to Right, Sherine Raines, Me, Audrey Shenkyl. They have become my little family away from home!

School!

I don't even know where to begin....This has been a very weird week for me. Lots of feelings or confusion and discouragement in my self about school, not really sure why or what even caused me to start thinking about it. Oh well, another valley worked through in the big journey of going through school! This past Thursday in class our teacher had us do this class activity on self-concept. She gave us a piece of yellow card stock and each person taped it to there back and was supposed to have atleast 10 of our classmates write something positive about us on this paper. I am attaching mine at the bottom. Somethings that is very hard to realize, one day I will have as much confidence in myself as others think I have in myself(if that makes any since)! We just finished our 5th week of clinicals, only 1 more week to go, our last day of class is on this Thursday and we are in the hospital on Saturday and that is our last day for this semester. Sunday we get to have breakfast at our teachers house and do a little teaching session to some of our clinical classmates about one of our patients. I am doing mine on small bowel obstruction, how exciting!:) On Friday I decided to put up our Christmas lights on the house, instead of studying for my Pharmacology Evaluation. This time I didn't have to climb on the roof or call the fire department, HOW EXCITING!:) After Christmas last year William bought me this poll extender to help with the lights on the front part of the house and it helped tremendously. I didn't even have to climb on the ladder to get them up. We took our family Christmas pictures yesterday, I haven't gotten them back yet but as soon as I do I will post some of them on here, I think they are going to be beautiful!

a door closes as another opens...

I just finished my 4th weekend of clinicals and I am really enjoying all of the people I am getting to meet and the experience that I am getting to have, it is alot of fun, alot of work too! We have several big assignments during this clinical rotation, and I am excited because I have completed 2 of the 4! I only have one thing left to do on one of the others and they last one I have to prepare a small seminar about one of my patients to present to my clinical group on the last day of clinicals. We have 4 days of class left, 4 days of clincials, 1 test review day, test 5, a final exam & our standardized test that covers the entire class. I know that seems like alot but it really isn't that much!

A week or so ago William & I were presented with a opportunity to step-up and lead a home fellowship group/connection group. We accepted and yesterday was a last week with our group that we have been with for 3 1/2 years. It is sad! I am excited about the new opportunity though! We are going to be a part of what was the Cole/Weddle HFG, now it will be the Lewallen/Weddle HFG. It will definitly be an adjustment, one of the ladies that is in this group taught at the high school I went to my senior year, so that tells ya how diverse this group it, this will also be the first time that I am not the baby of the group. Just keep us in yours prayers as we start our new journey beginning next Sunday. I am excited about growing my relationship with God as well as leading others & guiding them towards our heavenly father as well. Since last night was our last time at our old group the leaders got us this lovely cookie cake that said "We will miss you William & Casey". God has differnt plans for us! We will definitly miss being a part of the Knoble/Daspit HFG. Here's a picture of the cookie cake they got us, it was the first time I had had one and it was delicious!