I feel so good!

It sooooo hard to wake up this morning, I just wanted nothing but to keep snuggling under the warm covers with Mikey. I was kind of dreading clinical today because its still one big unknown for me. Where will I be? What do I have to do? What will my patient be like? Last semester's clinical, after the first 2 clinicals, I was good to go. So I'm hoping this will be the same this semester. I of course was very worried about doing a one-on-one interview with a patient in the mental health facility. It's definitely completely unknown of what that person's story will be.

I of course got kind of a lovely surprise today because instead of being on one of the units, I was sent over to the Psych Liaison in the Emergency Room at the hospital. This area is dedicated solely to patients coming in to the ER when they are having a mental crisis, and the nurses assess the patients to understand the situation, and to determine if the patient needs to be admitted to the mental health hospital. I got to observe 3 of these patient assessments, and it was pretty surprising. It definitely gave me a new outlook on patients suffering with mental illness. It's not always obvious by how the patient looks or how they talk or behave.

I was so happy to not be overwhelmingly exhausted after clinical today, so I actually went to school to print my notes for class this week, and work on my clinical journal and evaluation. I got some Starbucks as a treat, and even got dinner in the oven!

I am feeling wonderful, I truly am. I really do believe letting go of the things that were upsetting me has helped with this tremendously. But, it was just a really good day, and I am happy with being caught up with my school work. I'm not even too horribly upset about having to be in school from 8 to 7 tomorrow, lol.

So, I just have to decide how much studying I want to do tonight, I have a few pages to finish up for Pharm, and I need to get my notes organized into their appropriate folders, but other than that, I am done for the evening! Woohoo!!