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Night Shift Super Powers
Although the majority of my adventures I share with you focus on my homestead, there are many, many stories I wish I could share that take place in my ER nursing world. Stories that would make you...
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In Need of Some Chicken Love
I don’t tend to write very much about my ER nurse life due to the HIPPA laws, but I sure wish I could tell you all some of the crazy stories I have! ER nurse life is hectic, exhausting and emotionally...
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Three Weeks to Go
This has been a week full of 12 hour shifts and hospital classes. Starting at a new hospital is so time intensive, between the regular work days, paperwork and numerous classes and online modules you...
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Night Shift fades into Morning
The wheels of time seem to be rolling faster than usual around the homestead. I have reached new levels of exhaustion. I think at this point I need to coin a new word to describe how tired my red...
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A Farm Tour & A Ginkgo Biloba Tree
It has been a big week here on the homestead. Last weekend Neil and I took my niece and nephew to the Piedmont Farm Tour, and despite the freezing weather and mud, had a great time. We saw several...
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Bribing Goats & New Nursing Adventures
Slowly, but surely the goats are becoming more accustomed to us. They still have not gotten the hang of the electric fence-neither have Peanut, Lilly or Oliver who have been thoroughly traumatized by...
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Nesting Box Surprise
Good morning my lovely readers! Guess what I found all tucked away neatly in the nesting box yesterday? Our very first egg from our colorful flock of ladies. I am not sure who was the first to start...
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Don’t Ever Say
You know when you are watching a movie and one of the exacerbated characters says “What else could possibly go wrong?” and you roll your eyes because you know that one should never tempt the fates and...
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Degree of Separation
When I slid on a pair of scrubs and clocked into the local emergency room as a registered nurse for the first time, there was no way I could have foreseen the journey that lay ahead. That first 12...
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Finish Line
The end is finally near. One more week of “Hell Month” remains and at this point I can think of quite a few explanatory expletives to describe the last 5 weeks. Note to self; don’t ever, EVER, do this...
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