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My pretty girl

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I haven’t been taking as many pictures of Midnight, my lab puppy lately as I should.

I figure that I should try to take a few pics each week as she changes so much just in that short amount of time. Soon enough she’ll start to reach her adult size and won’t be changing so much anymore.

The last photos I took were at her puppy training graduation. I’ve got some photos of her and the other puppies with graduation caps on. I just haven’t transferred them from the camera to the computer yet!

Here’s one of nicest photos I’ve taken of her to date. I took this photo in the middle of January after we came back from her first grooming session:

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She was kind of tired after the experience so it was the perfect time to snap a shot of my normally hyperactive Lab puppy.

Here’s another shot I took that day. Isn’t she just the cutest?

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Of course she’s always cute when she’s sleeping. She’s really developing her jowls … look at how much extra skin she’s got on the side of her face!

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Anyone else have a puppy at home or some cute puppy pictures to share?





Wondering when the axe will fall

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I was just talking about how much I’d like to get back to work, but I’ve been on medical leave for 25 months now. It’s hard to imagine that I’ve been off for so long!

Almost every day I wonder when the phone will ring and on the other end it will be the oc health department at the hospital calling to tell me that they can’t extend my medical leave any longer. If that happens I’ll be very upset.

Since I’m officially on medical leave I still have my full time position. It’s being held for me. I also have health benefits. I do have to pay a certain amount each year – money that would normally be taken from my paychecks, but I’m still covered.

If I ever do get that call I’ll have to switch over to a private family or individual health insurance plan. Actually, Chris works at the hospital. He’s only part time (but works almost full time hours). I think he can apply for health coverage. I should get him to check on that and we could switch over. Then if the axe does fall we’ll at least still have continued health insurance coverage.

Do you have health insurance from your workplace?

Peaceful sleep

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This was me yesterday!

I didn’t sleep all night Tuesday night and when I finally did fall asleep in the morning my puppy started making a ton of noise in her crate. She was pulling her dog bed apart! So of course that got me up and I couldn’t get back to sleep. By noon or so I could barely see! My vision was blurred and I was also seeing double. I seriously thought that either something was wrong with my eyes or that I’d accidentally taken an extra pain pill and was o.d.’ing! I think I was just so overtired that my eyes were the first to fail!

I finally fell asleep that day at 2:30 in the afternoon but woke up at 4:30 when the puppy again got me up. Chris got home around 6 pm and by 8 pm I fell asleep on the couch and slept on and off all night (on the couch) right through until maybe 10 am Thursday.

I’m sure I probably looked like this cat as I slept soundly on the couch!

I miss my nursing job

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I really miss working as a nurse. I know there’s no way I can go back to my job right now. I’ll have to get a lot better before I could even think of going back to those 12 hour days and shift work. However I do miss working with the patients.

I liked spending time with each one that was on my care. Now I worked in Emerg for almost half my nursing career and you can’t spend anywhere near as much time with patients there as you probably should, but I always tried to give my patients special attention.

Perhaps if I do go back to nursing I should work in a different department. One with a slower pace where I’d get to spend more time with each patient if I wanted to or if they needed the extra care. Perhaps I could even work in one of the therapy units … maybe doing cerebral palsy therapy or some other form of mobility rehabilitation.

As I said I’ve got to get me better before I can go back to work and try to make others better. I hope I start to feel better soon!

Peek-a-boo!

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Doesn’t it look like this giraffe and the woman are playing peek-a-boo or hide and seek or something?

I know it’s not the funniest picture but it’s unusual.

What do you think is really going on? Perhaps she’s trying to steal the giraffe and she’s sneaking it out?

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