On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
So my daily life now not only includes cooking, internet-surfing, gaming (League of Legends, anyone playing on the US server??), couch-potatoing, but also typing and making slides. I'm technically working 15 hours a week for one person at the Business School (at the university I'm going to attend starting this Fall). I'm still just in day 3, and practically done with all the assignments of the week (worked my butt off so I can leave SLC this weekend with no worries). The readings and "highlights" (highlighting things) I have been assigned with have taken about 14-15 hours yesterday and today, and the slides took about 4 hours the day before.
The best thing about this job is I can work whereever I want. I have been doing most of the work at home, with today being the exception for which I worked at Mr L's office because I didn't have any highlighters at the moment and Mr. L's colleague offered me his. There's no clock-in clock-out system and no set office time. I just need to make sure I get the assigned stuff finished in time.
The not-so-great part about this job is everything is new. I'm not a business student, let alone tackling with healthcare information systems (area where my job assignments evolve around in). Things I've been reading about for this job have been around the topics of "loose-coupling" within organization and epidemic disease control. About 6 or 7 hours of the 10 hours I read yesterday was spent on googling current healthcare IS loopholes, checking out definition on healthcare vocabularies, and flipping back and forth of pages between 7 similarly written papers comparing charts and checking out references. I'm a soon-to-be student of College of Health with research interest in substance abuse prevention among adolescent refugees. Still, the papers I got to read were pretty interesting. Hey, who am I to complain about? I get paid to read (and highlight/draw on) fascinating stuff!
About the 55 slides I made on Monday and 6 case studies I typed up last night (which occupied my brain and hands until 2am this morning), I had a textbook handed to me with notes on each of the pages I needed to type up about. While imprinting those paragraphs, charts, graphs on my HP laptop, I inevitably had to read EVERYTHING in the two chapters that I was working on, after all - I must read a sentence first before making it appear on the screen. I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong! I'm glad I have this opportunity to get paid to learn something different, interesting, and challenging.
Last - Atlanta in 3 days! Who can tell I'm excited?! The weatherman expects "scattered t-storms" on Sunday and Monday, whaaaat?! Those are the two days Queenie and I plan on screaming our lungs out at Six Flags! Please don't rain and please don't "t-storm" the city! Not until we leave.......:p
The best thing about this job is I can work whereever I want. I have been doing most of the work at home, with today being the exception for which I worked at Mr L's office because I didn't have any highlighters at the moment and Mr. L's colleague offered me his. There's no clock-in clock-out system and no set office time. I just need to make sure I get the assigned stuff finished in time.
The not-so-great part about this job is everything is new. I'm not a business student, let alone tackling with healthcare information systems (area where my job assignments evolve around in). Things I've been reading about for this job have been around the topics of "loose-coupling" within organization and epidemic disease control. About 6 or 7 hours of the 10 hours I read yesterday was spent on googling current healthcare IS loopholes, checking out definition on healthcare vocabularies, and flipping back and forth of pages between 7 similarly written papers comparing charts and checking out references. I'm a soon-to-be student of College of Health with research interest in substance abuse prevention among adolescent refugees. Still, the papers I got to read were pretty interesting. Hey, who am I to complain about? I get paid to read (and highlight/draw on) fascinating stuff!
About the 55 slides I made on Monday and 6 case studies I typed up last night (which occupied my brain and hands until 2am this morning), I had a textbook handed to me with notes on each of the pages I needed to type up about. While imprinting those paragraphs, charts, graphs on my HP laptop, I inevitably had to read EVERYTHING in the two chapters that I was working on, after all - I must read a sentence first before making it appear on the screen. I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong! I'm glad I have this opportunity to get paid to learn something different, interesting, and challenging.
Last - Atlanta in 3 days! Who can tell I'm excited?! The weatherman expects "scattered t-storms" on Sunday and Monday, whaaaat?! Those are the two days Queenie and I plan on screaming our lungs out at Six Flags! Please don't rain and please don't "t-storm" the city! Not until we leave.......:p
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