It has been an intense couple of weeks…

I’m done maternity! I have never been so happy to be finished a rotation. It was occasionally hellish, but for the most part, I was simply just disgusted by the medical system and its treatment of women. Take my word for it, they were well cared for, but they just weren’t treated they way I think they should be. The whole experience is far too medicalized. However, I loved the babies! I adored holding them and taking care of them.

I thought I was going to fail my maternity clinical rotation (ironic since I have no intention of working there, so the thought of repeating it was horrible…even more so was the thought that I would graduate a year late…without my friends). I just made to many BAD mistakes in the last couple days of clinical. However, I owned up to these mistakes, and appreciated the strong lesson. And no, I didn’t kill anybody, or even come close. In the end, I received an A- which I’m quite pleased with.

Now I’m at the Children’s Hospital. I’m working with the little babies–I specially requested the newborn cardiology unit. I’m very excited to have the chance to get better at infant care. I had a strange inner, almost spiritual hunch that my time learning about nursing babies just wasn’t finished yet. So, we’ll see how that goes. I am sure that it will prove to be quite intense and stressful. More so than maternity, but at the same time, that much more interesting.

As for work…still picketing. We received a tentative agreement to vote on. Unfortunately, it was a horrible agreement that would make our workplace even more disrespectful. As a union, we voted against the contract with a 50.3% “no” vote. So, three months on strike and counting. Winter will be tough! Temperatures haven’t even started dipping below zero during the day and it’s already tough to spend a good length of time outside. But, we decided to keep fighting…and we will.

I get to teach a class on magick tonight! Sweet! I love teaching. It feels so good and natural to be a leader in my grove. I’m a Leo, so leadership fits me like a glove. The only problem is I can’t stand conflict, so sometimes I’m afraid of it, which sometimes affects leadership abilities.

Anyway, I’ll leave it at that for now. I really wish I was posting more. Darnit! I just jinxed it! Whenever you mention wanting to post more, it always means that posts will dwindle for awhile…

we’ll see.