I'm fortunate to have found the group Wives of Faith, and recently put in a prayer request regarding all my crazy issues I've been having and it's been so wonderful to receive emails from people praying for me every day. It's uplifting, and I have needed that lately.
Yesterday was one of the worst days I have had in a long time. I moved my exam date up by a good two weeks, because I feel that I am so close to being ready and I didn't want to drag it out. The sooner the better is what I keep being told. So, sooner it is. Plus, I can always push it back if the day arrives and I don't feel ready yet. So, it's more set in jello than stone.
When I went to APU, I had gone there before I met my husband, and before passing the GI Bill onto your spouse was even an option so I got through it on student loans, grants and scholarships. I have about $30k that I still owe to pay it off. On a monthly basis it's about the cost of a small car payment. So, when I checked the bank account to find out that it had been taken out twice on accident, I was extremely horrified. That really put us into a pickle financially this pay period, and of course, this happens to be one of those long pay periods. *sigh*
Monday, it was raining, my husband works outside on a shooting range. He teaches recruits to shoot during boot camp. So, all day, his iPhone4 with no insurance was sitting in a wet pocket. Needless to say I was a little irritated at his lack of common sense- so all day yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to get him a phone- any phone, because sharing a cell would be incredibly difficult. After a long wasteful day of my time focusing on the phone instead of NCLEX- we got one. It will be here Friday by the end of the day.
Then as if to add icing on the top of my terrible day, my French Bulldog (Bubba) attacks my English Bulldog puppy (Bella), nicks her ear and blood goes everywhere. My house looked like a crime scene. The cut was so small, but because it was on her ear... she was bleeding, and bleeding, and dripping. She's white and the whole left side of her head and upper body was now pinkish red. It looked way worse than it really was. Hopefully she learned her lesson about not trying to steal food from other dogs, and hopefully Bubba will finally figure out that I will not under any circumstances condone his aggressiveness toward her. He spent some time in isolation after that, while I patched up Bella's ear and washed the blood off her.
My saving grace? A new friend I made here in the neighborhood invited me over for wine. I walked a block down the road, had two glasses of wine, and some nice conversation and venting, then made my way home a little less stressed and little more relaxed. This morning I went to my spin class, and I feel almost completely relaxed again, and I'm ready to get to business with my studying.
Happy Hump Day! The weekend is almost here. Thank Goodness!
I can feel your grief because I share in it. I'm disabled and so money is very! very! tight each month. So if we have one thing go wrong like a car breaking down we are left wondering where we are going to find the money to fix it! You have a great site by the way!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you had a rough day *hugs*
ReplyDeleteSooner is better, but make sure you are ready, too. I actually didn't change my date at all and I was surprised. I thought I would need more time. I stayed dedicated to studying for that exam, though. The nurses I worked with at the time were great and they told me once I felt like I was getting the same questions over and over again (and answering them correctly), I was ready. And the night or two before, don't cram. Take that time to relax, because by that time you know everything you are going to know and if you do some last-minute cramming you're only going to stress yourself out even more. The only thing I recommend looking over the last minute are lab values. Good luck, I know you will do just fine!
I feel like I'm almost ready now- and I still have some time to go, not too much but enough. I've been using the Kaplan Test Prep program. I took the course and learned the decision tree. Most topics I am scoring about 68- 85% on. The teacher for the course said we should be scoring above the 60% range to determine readiness. There's still two topics that I am scoring in the 50's on, and those are what I'm really trying to study right now; Reduction of Risk Potential, and Physiological Adaptation. The course came with this really awesome online component that I have access to for six months and there's lectures on every topic. I've been watching them every day, and following along in the text. I also made flash cards for labs. WOOT! I'm getting there. I can't wait to truly put this all behind me.
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