city of angels.

i love good days. you know, those days when things just seem to go your way. do have days like this? well, today, i had one of those days. a good day. clinical today was...refreshing. as sad as it sounds...but there are very few days that i leave the hospital feeling encouraged and motivated. but today was one of those days. i was on 4 south today, the cardiovascular thoracic intensive care unit. my patient had so much going on, and i was running around the entire day...which is such a good feeling. i absolutely love being busy. and to make my day even better...we got a tour of los angeles county usc. and that just made my day. we got to see the brand new [gorgeous] hospital, and got to walk through the historical hospital. it was just awesome. the head chaplain gave us a tour, and he was just the sweetest man ever! i wanted to adopt him as a grandpa. the only downside to the tour was that we didn't get to see the er [i guess people had been abusing the privileges...boo people]. so i guess i am just going to need to transport a patient there...

[my nursing class and instructor with chaplain manly at lac usc]




the chaplain spoke a lot about the population of people you see at county, and that excited me. he spoke of being a missionary as a nurse, right here in the city of angels, and touching the lives of the underprivelaged citizens of the city. that is what i yearn to do. i want to serve and touch the forgotten people of this city. much like jesus, i long to live my life among the poor. i long to serve, educate, touch, protect, and bless the citizens of los angeles...and today reminded me of that desire.


and now i am working on CASE STUDY #2 at coffee klatch. and heading to my super awesome yoga class in an hour. it has been a good day.