The Last Mon Standing

After a major setback last summer, I have finally taken the Licensure Examination for Nurses last November 29 and 30 (that’s last Sunday and Saturday). So what happened?

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BOARD EXAM:

I tried to sleep at about 10 pm but I woke up at 12 midnight. My feet suddenly felt restless and I just couldn’t bring my self back to sleep again. My sisters felt my chest and I was palpitating. I stood up and did some exercises and jogged around the room. But it was no use. I ate the leftover from the previous dinner. I wanted to peruse my notes again but I was just too apprehensive to focus. I tried to sleep and was able to do so at 2 AM but all I dreamed about was I was sleeping and waking up to pee. I thought it was for real that I was really waking up every five minutes to visit the bathroom until my sister’s alarm rang and I realized that I was just dreaming. [READ MORE]

Coming from work, just when my father opened the door, he greeted me with this line; “You were BEATEN by [name]. He passed the CPA board exam first, before you even had the chance to take your own board exam.” [READ MORE]

In less than 2 weeks I’ll already have my board exam and until now my brain still feel like an empty bottle wanting to be filled with the necessary knowledge to make me pass the board. [READ MORE]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

This year

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has been really

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I dont look forward to Christmas anymore. I mean I don’t enjoy it as much as I did when i was little. I am going to Isabela for my Christmas break. I feel bad since Bian and Erika are planning to go to Bian’s resort on December 27 and stay there until 30, I think. [READ MORE]

Hanzel and I entered the Neonatal (Newborn) Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at 3:45 in the morning to replace Loren and Rose. Our clinical Instructor ordered us to clean the place and check for the newborns’ vital signs.

Hanzel was having a lot of trouble taking the Respiratory and Heart Rate of a premature baby so he asked me to check them instead. Unfortunately, the baby was born an hour ago. Though premature, it was laid in an ordinary bassinet. There wasn’t an available incubator so it was left there with only an oxygen hood and a lamp to keep it alive. It was really tiny. The fingers were indeed small that one couldn’t help but think of jellies. They are dry, yet looked slimy plus the color was somewhat transparent. The hand was folded in a different way and was so…[READ MORE]

Mortality is a subdued thought that is always scratching from the back of our minds- Casey

I got bored of helping my classmate putting the diaper on the baby that she just had suctioned of its secretions and bathe, so I decided to stroll around the nursery living her behind panicking. The room is not that big. Earlier, I was able to mop the place in less than 4 minutes.

Just like an eager enthusiast scrutinizing each specimen of his collection, I pored around from one bassinet to next and from one incubator to another gazing at the babies sound asleep. I somehow felt envious, it was already 5 in the morning and I haven’t sleep yet.[READ MORE]