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Name: Rachel
Country: United States
Gender: Female
Interests: Baahhhhhh I hate filling this part out....I don't have time for interests outside of music, friends, and Aaron. I guess if I DID, it would be softball, SAI, piano, working out, etc etc etc.
Expertise: Not much of anything...Although I do know my way around a holstein pretty darn well.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  JOKNWITHU
MSN: king_rachel4@hotmail.com
Member Since:
6/9/2005
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| "In my opinion, if you hate sombody because they are different from you, you'd best get on your knees and repent until you can say you love them, until you have gotten your soul right with Christ. I can't say this clearly enough: If we are preaching morality without Christ, and using war rhetoric to communicate a battle mentality, we are fighting on Satan's side. This battle we are in is a battle against the principalities of darkness, not against people who are different from us. In war you shoot the enemy, not the hostage."
--Donald Miller in Searching for God Knows What
This book is awesome. Not just for Christians, but for people who think that Christians are hypocrites. Read this book. This is what Christianity was meant to be. Not judgment or disdain against those whose sins we've decided are greater than our own, not some political agenda, not some televangelist-proclaimed "war against culture." Its about love and selflessness, about putting others' needs before your own. We've done a fantastic job of confounding the message, why must we make it so difficult?
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| I'm looking forward to moving past the events of the weekend. Unfortunately, local media doesn't think I've had enough time to brood over things. When I clicked on the TV this afternoon, how convenient that that is what KTVO finds to report on. I 'd like to think I would be handling things better if it hadn't been the second successful and third attempt in 36 hours. If thats what it was, anyway, the whole thing was fishy. Sorry for the vagueness, I can't legally be any more specific.
Anyway, my stomach has been in knots since Sunday morning. I'm not sure if its nerves or I'm actually getting sick, but if I could just hurl I would feel 100% better.
Maybe I'll update later, when I'm a little more positive.
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| Let me tell you about highlights of the past three days working the Mercy Medical Center-Centerville Ambulance.
- Fog. So much freaking fog that for the first call of the weekend we had to go door-to-door in the boondocks to figure out who asked for an ambulance. We were lucky not to get run off properties with shotguns.
- A trip to Corydon, IA, in the ridiculous fog. I didn't think we were going to make it. Almost hit a tree.
- A trip to Des Moines, IA, in fog that was even worse than before. So bad, in fact, we took a detour because we missed a turn.
- A rollover accident into a telephone pole, which splintered in half and teetered above rescue crews during the entire extrication. Two in the car: the one who had the car land on his head probably could have driven himself home had he not been toasted, and shamelessly hit on me both during extrication and the entire drive to the hospital. Didn't seem to mind when I cut his clothes off. The other had a major TBI and will probably be a vegetable.
- Another trip to Des Moines with the TBI patient. Spent the entire trip trying to depress his nervous system enough to make him cooperate with the ventilator.
- Another trip to Des Moines with a CVA patient. Thinking I was making a good choice, I stayed back. Instead of catching a nap, we ran twice to a nursing home, once for a fall and then to return the fall pt. In between the two, another CVA in the ER. Not pretty.
- Dyspnea call. Ok, fine. There are so many cars in the solid-ice drive that we can barely get the cot through. The front porch steps are rotten, and I almost break my leg. After getting into the house, I take a look around. Directly to my right is the biggest snake I've ever seen in my entire life. Ever. Its got a diameter of at LEAST 8 inches. It had to have been 8 ft long. No exaggeration. I'm freaking out at this point.
- Get snake guy to ER. He's there exactly 7.63 minutes before Dr. Alt says he's going to Des Moines. He's had no labs, no X-rays, no CT, yet somehow she knows he has an AAA. Which is really bad, by the way. Did I mention it was freaking foggy out? Of course no one is flying. So again to Des Moines.
- Saturday morning. Home stretch. Looking forward to 12 hours of sleep. Instead, 4 hours and a phone call later here we go again to Des Moines. For no freaking reason, I might add. Best part, one word: BLIZZARD. Four hour trip turned into 7. I was 87% sure we weren't going to make it back. By the time we get back, I'm so exhausted I can't fall asleep. With everyone snowed in, things finally started to look up with no one in the ER and no ambulance calls. Thank God.
One day off and back again. No one gets sick on Christmas, right?
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| Things have been really busy lately. I don't see any hope of them slowing down. I work about 35 hours in the first 4 days of the week, and then another 24 the next 2 days (plus 24 more on call, potentially working all of those hours). Finally on Saturday I come home and sleep until bedtime. I'm not sure how long I can keep this up.
I want to go home for a while. An extended while. As in 4 days would be nice. However its impossible to find someone to work for you at PFH, and I'm not eligible for PTO at Mercy until January. I'm tired and I miss my family. Can I do this for another year and a half?
The onset of fall is making me gloomy. I love summer. Everything is wonderful as long as it is summer. Not true once it starts getting cold again. For some reason I've been kinda lonely this past week. I love my roommates, but I've been thinking about how much its going to suck when they and Kathleen are gone next year. Hopefully I'll be too preoccupied with my new husband to care, but it would be nice to have some girlfriends to hang out with.
Speaking of, wedding planning is awfully rocky at the moment. We can't book the place we want until December, and there's a possibility they aren't going to have a suitable place for a ceremony. Its a long story. But really we can't do anything until thats all straightened out. BAH!
I need to relax, and all I've tried so far isn't working.
Keep praying for Sylvia. She's having major surgery tomorrow. I really shouldn't be whining with all that her family is going through.
I'm off to small group.
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| Last night I had a dream that instead of getting married May 31 of next year, I was getting married this next weekend. Unfortunately, the only planning I had done was what I've done so far for the May wedding...which is basically a DJ and a photographer. Not surprisingly, I woke up in a panic.
Nile, you can have fun with this and the last one if you like. I enjoy hearing your interpretations.
I worked a lot more than I anticipated on my day off today. I slept in, but then cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the pool, washed my car, and eventually tonight I will get around to cleaning my room.
I'm setting a goal for myself. 20 pounds by the end of October. 2ish pounds a week. This isn't so much about the wedding, but more to feel better and have more energy. I sleep too much. Encouragement appreciated.
If anyone is interested in attending a small group/Bible study, I'm starting one at TimberRidge for college-age people (not necessarily students). We're having a BBQ Sept 9. Let me know if you're interested. I'm a little apprehensive because I see myself as not really qualified to lead a small group, but I know the church needs something like this and it didn't seem that anyone else might step up anytime soon.
If you pray, please pray for my friend's mom, Sylvia. She was just diagnosed with a rare cancer, adenocarcinoma of the appendix. Theirs is like a second family to me, and it is hard to know they have to battle something so scary.
I suppose I'll get to that room now...
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