Mary’s Pad

You know when people ask you “How’s it going?” and you answer “Good”, or “OK”, or that one answer that really annoys me and that I find myself using “It’s going”?  Do you ever wonder what they’re asking?  I mean, if you think about it, it’s a pretty ambiguous question… how’s it going?
How’s what going?  […]

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It’s exhausting, it’s exhilerating, it’s frustrating, it’s rewarding, it’s unpredictable, it’s scary, it can be humorous, it can be heartbreaking, sometimes it’s smelly…
It’s going to take me a while to get used to it, and it’s going to take a long time to get good at it, but there’s no question about it, I love […]

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I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time but never got around to it. Since I don’t want to do what I’m supposed to be doing at this moment, I figure I could write this post now then I won’t feel too bad about procrastinating doing that other thing I’m supposed […]

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…why I haven’t posted in a while, well, it’s because I got my first paycheck on Friday, and that should explain it all!!
It was a great week, I learned a lot. Like I mentioned in the last post it was a bit of a baptism by fire experience to have a code before I had […]

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Talk about starting with a bang, hitting the ground running, baptism by fire.
At the top of my second hour as an ER RN on the floor - a working code, heartbreak, an emotional roller coaster that I will most likely never forget.
No, I don’t regret becoming an ER nurse.

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