Praise God

This month of August has been an incredible ride for Malachi and me. As of now, Malachi is attending Union College full time for a Computer Science degree (which I think is just plain awesome), we are officially moving to Nebraska next weekend, and I start my new job (yup, that's right, I got the job!) right after Labor Day.  And God's finger print is all over all of this.  We are so undeserving of all the blessings that 2012 has brought us and we are forever grateful for this taste of heavenly grace!

Here we come Nebraska/new life chapter!

April Somethings (new and improved with some instagram photos)

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from this past month, here is something I...

...loved: 

Our anniversary.  We stayed at The Foshay, and they upgraded us to an incredibly large room on the 26th floor, overlooking Minneapolis.  We walked around the city during the day, eating yummy food and people watching.  And we walked over to the Orpheum to watch Mamma Mia.  It was a great anniversary.  Even in spite of Malachi unfortunately was sick and I unfortunately could not get much time off of work for it.  We still had a wonderful time!

...listened to:

...watched:

Season 2!  I liked season 1 a little better, but only because season 2 had so many things going on that the show couldn't keep up with itself.  They should have tried to spread those stories out a little more.  However, I'm definitely excited for season 3!

...read: 

A little of Walking the Twin Cities.  While on our anniversary trip we did a couple of the walks in this book, it led me right into Cocoa & Fig for my first macaron!

...learned:

I've recently watched Forks over Knives, FoodMatters, and Food, Inc.  One of the things that stuck with me was that 51% of each meal should be uncooked to keep the body from having an immune response.  I don't know how true that is, but it seems like a good idea.  That would mean more salads, and that would definitely be a good thing.

Daily Pictures

I have 2 weeks worth here.  I missed last week simply due to life being a tad crazy with Malachi and I moving and my dad moving and house showings and townhome showings and I could go on, but you get the idea I'm sure!

Coldstone Frozen Yogurt. Don't mind if I do

Moving out.

Sunrise.

Flowers budding

Eating lunch in the hospital cafeteria.  (all alone because I have lunch at 2:00 on Thursdays)

More signs of early spring.

Too cute for words.

Daddio and Toby

Dylan

Trying to keep the dogs out of the house during a showing.

Bath time!

A blue bird at the park.

Dylan stole every single one of the the bones from the other dogs.  That's my boy.

How I spent my Saturday.

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I'm a little late this week, but this weekend was a tad crazy, so the blog took a back seat.

Malachi, on mega-moving-day #1

My loves, all relaxing at the end of the day.

The Tobster!

Daisyduke

Willow River State Park

Our "Storage Unit"

Mega-moving-day #2

9/19/06

"day 16"

Hey!  Today was fun, I just hope I can remember everything I did today, that seems to be my biggest problem.

 

I saw 'my' patient today and that was fun, I got to progress her exercises as I saw fit.  She asked me about the Mall of America and I told her all about it.  It was a good time.  I also got to do that with some other patients today too (the progressing, not the talking about MOA)

 

During inpatient gait training I followed this one lady with a wheelchair who had at least 20 colored wires coming from her head.  I've never seen anything like it.

 

There is this one guy, and I wont get into everything because this could get pretty detailed, but basically he has this HUGE gash in his shin.  He's not our patient usually.  He came in and Sharon (the PT Aide that I eat lunch with everyday) was putting his leg in the whirlpool.  He's in a motorized wheelchair and he was pushing it forward and Sharon was yelling "Stop going forward!" because he was pushing her and the whirlpool across the floor.  It was funny.  Then when she got the leg in, Liz and I saw that the wound is not in the water AT ALL.  Which is a problem we had been hearing about, that we really dont have a way to fix, but we thought at least 75% of the wound was in the water.  But no.  So Liz told Sharon to get a rag wet and ring it over the wound.  And Sharon was not thrilled about this job and I dont blame her, and she said "for how long??" And Liz said 20 minutes.  And Liz and I laughed and Sharon I think was about to cry.  But she did it, what a trooper.

 

At the end of the day we went up to do 2 bedsides.  One of them was the first time I got to do something directly with a patient at bedside.  And it was a quadraplegic guy who was really sweet.  He couldnt talk but he could nod and grimace, so we could communicate somewhat.  Well, then we went to the other one, which was that guy from yesterday who was wanting to go home.  A side note: this guy keeps pulling the fire alarm.  So for the past week and a half we keep having a code red, which is "Dr. Red, calling Dr. Red."  Anyways, we went to see this guy and he was sleeping and we went to ask his nurse if it was alright to work with him and this is what she said "I just chemically restrained him. You don't want to work with him anyways because he was just <I've censored this part for my blog :) but you can probably guess>.  So unless you want to smoke a cigarrette with him."  And Liz got so red and embarrassed and said "You guys!  I have a student with me!  From the midwest!  And she thinks we are all crazy out here!"  Haha.  It was kinda funny, but more disgusting.

 

I think that's all.  Oh, and after work I went to the I Love Lucy gift shop and bought a mug so that I will always remember my connection with Lucille Ball, that we both once lived in Jamestown, NY. 

 

Love ya!

Lyndsey

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A sock bun and purple jeans?!

2nd day of my treadmill time.  We'll see if I even still have the treadmill here after all the moving I'm doing today.  But if the weather keeps up, I can just take it outside!

I love it when the snow melts.

I've made a lot of green smoothies, but this is my first one that actually turned out green.

The icy lake of death between my door and my mailbox.

supper time!

bath time!

9/18/06

"day 15"

Today was very fast and easy.  I do alot of teaching and reviewing exercises with people for abdominal and back strengthening so that's how I spent my morning.  And we had alot of patients so that's why it went by so quickly.  We have this one lady who gets her legs whirlpooled and bandanged everyday because she has major fluid build-up.  She's a really sweet lady who cant hear anything you say at all.  And I've never really followed a patient who had this before from start to finish, so it's really interesting to see progress.  Even though the weekend seemed to cause a little regression.  But everyday when I see her it really makes me want to do lots of lower extremity exercises. 

 

At the cafeteria the ice cream place is called the "ICU" for 'Ice Cream Unit'.  I thought it was kinda cute.

 

This afternoon two of our patients didnt show up so we went up to do a bedside on this guy who was...well as Liz put it, "a social worker's nightmare".  This guy had all kinds of contagious stuff that I don't want (like Shingles and AIDS).  And he's been known to be violent to the nurses.  And he's got dementia.  And he's 26 years old.  So we go in and he thinks we are getting him ready to go home which made it interesting.  He was very capable of walking and so if you turned your back on him for a second he would be out the door.  This security guard who couldnt be older than me had just gone on duty to supervise him from 3 PM to 11 PM.  I feel bad for him. He was telling someone when we were walking the patient that he was thinking of going into psychology.  Liz and I think he'll change his mind by 11 PM.

 

Ardie gave me a bunch more sea glass today.  She's so sweet.  She buys vitamins for Sharon because she's not very healthy.  And Ethel got right back to her old ways today.  She was pretty well behaved last week, but she was teasing me almost constantly today.  But she's still nice.  Mean-Debbie is ridiculous.  I don't know if I told you this yet or not, but there are two PT's that have been there for many years and they still dont even have desks.  And Debbie just got her own big office about a week and a half ago.  Well, Debbie is using her office for a phone book and a place to sit and she still has everything at her old desk.  And Marie and Sheri still don't have desks. 

 

Well, I have to start filling out my CPI because this week is my midterm review.  Oh and about the E-coli.  I told Liz about that today and she said that she had suspected that's what I had.  And Ardie got all worried about me 'cause she's so sweet and was telling me to be careful because it might stay in me for about a week.  But so far, every symptom I've heard of, I've had.  So maybe it is true, that I did get it.  So I'm done with salads for a while.  My attempt to be healthy made me unhealthy, so bring on the french fries and mad-cow-disease-hamburgers!  Woo hoo!!

 

love ya!

Lyndsey

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There is a bird in this photo

My dad and I have had more ice cream this month than ever before in our lives.

It's been a wet week.

And a snowy week.

20 plastic bins delivered to our front door.  

Dylan couldn't stand the thought of not being in one of my daily photos for this week.

This is where I have to walk to get the mail, because our sidewalk is a lake right now.

9/15/06

"day 14"

Hey there parents,

Today was a fairly easy day.  Good thing too, because I am tired and extremely hungry after being sick yesterday.  We had two patients in for gait training this morning who happened to have been married for 62 years.  It was kinda sad, because they are both in the hospital and the husband said to his wife "I thought you would be at home now."  He was in for a Total Hip Replacement, and she had had a stroke.

At lunch in the cafeteria I sat next to this Speech/Hearing doctor guy and it was his birthday and this other hospital director guy at our table said, "Hey Bob" (by the way, i think every male who works in this hospital has the name Bob.  I don't know how anyone knows which Bob they are talking about) anyways, the guy said "Is it bad to not wear ear plugs when I mow my lawn?"  Being as Bob is a hearing doctor he said yes.  And the other guy said, "Okay, I just wanted to know, I turn my ipod up loud enough so that I can't hear the lawnmower anyways."  And it was funny, because Bob was NOT impressed.

I did my laundry right after work in a fairly shady area, but the laundromat was in a strip mall that didnt look too bad, but I hope I can make it 5 weeks without having to do laundry again...haha, fat chance.

Okay, my pizza is done, I'm STARVING, so I'm gonna go eat.  Sorry I didnt really say much about my day, but it was good. 

love,

lyndsey

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Toby got very very sick over the weekend :(

The packing has begun! 

Tuesday at my parents

Willow River State Park

Morning

This is my favorite picture of the week.  I swear, it's not even a little posed.

Malachi having breakfast