7 years

Ok, lets do a quick catch up....

Thanskgiving was wonderful like always. Lots of bodies in the Karner household, too much food, good times.

7th annual Ryan Pub Crawl...can you believe we've been doing this for seven years already??? Wow!!!! Once again, a great time had by all, and, I was stone sober the entire night! This may have been our biggest crawling crowd yet.....pictures to follow later....

My health, the pulmonoligist said I'm looking good. I feel good. My last INR last Tuesday was 3! The upper level of the range they want me in, but still good. Yeah!!!!!! I go to the hemagologist on the 6th, but so far, all the tests have come up negative.

School, busy as ever....1 project, 2 tests, 5 clinicals and one final until I'm done for the semester December 17th!! Then I have a wonderfully long month off, which I know will fly by, because that's how things work. But, I look at is as I'm 1/4 of the way through with nursing school....Thank God!!

Work....nothing new to report. I'm back to 12 hour shifts. They could not accomidate me with 8 hour shifts. They informed me they were heavily saturated and couldn't "create" the hours I needed, but if I wanted to lower my FTE (hours per week I work) that we could do. Whatever....I'm doing it. I've requested an 11am-11pm weekend program, working every Friday, Saturday, Sunday. That way, although I'll have to work every weekend, I'll at least get a decent amount of sleep every night.

Dan and I are moving next weekend!!! Yeah~!!! He's moving all of his stuff on Saturday December 1st, because I have to work that weekend, I'm going to move just the essentials that weekend and I'm going to rent the truck and move the bulk of my stuff on Saturday December 8th. I'm so excited though. It's truly been hard for me to have to say goodbye, knowing I won't see him for a week or longer.

Thats all that's new around here.....

Rough week

It's been a horrible week. I returned to work this week at a decreased pace. Per the doctors, they only want me to work 8 hour shifts, so I can give my body a rest. Ok. I told this to my boss while I was in the hospital, he said they'd work with me. I'm still putting in the same amount of hours, 72 hours per pay period, which equals to 4-8 hour shifts one week and 5 the next. SHouldn't be too difficult right??? WRONG!!! This week, I only worked 24 hours and as of Thursday they still haven't figured out my hours. Now they're suggesting that I work all my originally scheduled shifts, just cut them down by 4 hours each. OK, but I still need one or two extra shifts per week in order to make it work. Now the suggesstion is that I drive in for 4 hour shifts , well, I would need 4 of those per week to make that work. Thats and awful lot of driving!!! Oh, poo....someday we'll get this figured out. If I could cut down my hours I would, but my benefits and scholarship are dependent on my hourly commitment.

On the good side, Dan and I are moving. We got ourselves an apartment, in Naperville. I know this seems far away, but it's really a halfway point between both of our jobs. Until he's willing to move to a job further north, that's where we settle. But, we are moving in the first week of december! Yeah!!!!

Marty celebrated his 25th birthday this past Thursday 11-8. Ralph will be 56 on 11-13, and Dawniepie will be 26, big party in the city for Dawn's bday!!!

I spent the past two weekends with Dan's family, it's been very nice. School is going well, I'm just getting excited to end the semester. Next semester isn't going to be easier at all, it's going to be very difficult, but hell..I can do it!!!!

My blood work has been all over the map again. Thursday my INR was 6.6, technically a critical level!!! No coumadin Thursday or Friday, Start again Saturday, blood work Tuesday! Well, thats all for now!!!