Theta sisters, what's new?

ThetaPrincess24 · #1 07-14-2006, 07:27 PM

Well lets see. i got married two months ago and became a wife and a step-mom of three and i love every minute of it. My sister is expecting her baby next month and tomorrow I'm hosting her baby shower at our home. (Shoudl be interesting as her friends dont have the best track record for being dependable for showing up after tey said they will etc etc.).

My mom's health is very poor right now. I honestly did not think she would last to my wedding but she did and she came to the ceremony. So she's still hanging in there but is a total shut in anymore. Long story about that though.

I've been working 12.5 hour shifts at night at a hospital in Danville where our Centre chapter is located this summer as a nursing extern. I work on an orthopedic floor and I LOVE IT! It's definitely an interest for me to specialize in later. Most of my patients are also elderly and I love them too so gerontology/geriatrics is a potential field for me as well. I have so many uplifting stories of my experiences there this summer that I wish i could share but there is not enough space

i've been offered a CNA job there after my extern is over, but as much as I love being there I'll probably turn it down because of gas being $2.99 here right now and the fact i have to commute there 35 miles each way, three days a week, plus commuting to nursign school which is 35 miles in the other direction, plus commuting to clinicals. So i need to cut back on driving and gas usage where I can and I'll end it there because the oil/gas debate really.....well it's a debate for another time and place

That's about it for me presently!

How is everyone else?

PS --nice to see you back Mandy! (undtheta)

DominoTheta · #2 07-16-2006, 04:59 AM

Well, I am new to this website, but I'll update everybody on MY life.

My Big Sis *and very best friend since the beginning of my journey in Theta* is getting married in May. I have not set my wedding date yet, but hopefully it will be around the 4th of July next year. Ty and I have been looking at houses. I am very exited about that. I am also exited about finally being able to think of ways to incorporate Theta in my wedding like other sisters have done through the years. My wedding is going to be a black and white event. White in tradition, Black for elegance. MAYBE my sister will pledge Theta this fall and will be able to indulge in the small details of my wedding.

I have a two year old, Harlequin Great Dane named Lake. He has always been a big water boy. He loves his soon-to-be step-brother, a 3 year old German Sheperd, Lucky. Daddy is a police officer afterall.

My biological little sister will be going through Recruitment at the University of Texas at Dallas in like a little over a month. Very Exited.

I have been a paramedic for two years now and I will be taking my MCAT in August, if everything goes accordingly. Considering I do well, that will put me starting medical school next August. At least the wedding will be out of the way.

Well, I think that about sums it up. I hope everyone is doing well.

Theta Love,
DominoTheta

undtheta2000 · #3 07-17-2006, 02:41 PM

Welcome to the site, DominoTheta! You mentioned your sister will be at U of Texas- Dallas in the fall. Is that where you attended as well?
Good luck on your MCATs!
~undtheta2000

blackngoldengrl · #4 07-17-2006, 07:12 PM

Good luck studying for the MCATs, I know what you're going through, as I am in medical school now. I wish I had some good advice, but if I were to take them over again, I would invest in a professional course...expensive, but I think it would have helped me stay focused. I guess I did well enough without them though, and saved some money!

I suppose I should introduce myself, as I am also new. As I said I am currently a medical student in Maryland. I joined Theta in 2001, and boy do I miss those college days-sometimes. I'm currently in Los Angeles doing a summer program on aging, and it's been really great out here! I dread going back to the humidity of the east coast....

undtheta2000 · #5 07-18-2006, 12:20 PM

Welcome blackngoldengrl! It's wonderful to see all of you newbies to the site!!
Well, work is interesting. Background: I am Methodist, and in our conference (Dakotas- ND and SD) we have a program called Sidewalk Sonday School. The conference has several trailers that are taken around to various cities/ towns across the 2 states and provide basically a program like Sunday School or Vacation Bible school, but it is an outreach program to kids/ families who may by unchurched. Anyway, we had the trailer in my city for 2 or 3 years, then the 2 Methodist churches here took it over (so the trailer could go other places.) We have 1 family who has come for a couple of years, and when a congregation member took Christmas presents to them in December, the mother requested a visit by the pastor (my dad). Well, they don't have a car and she wanted her girls to start going to church so a couple families have been giving them rides to church and Sun School this spring.
Anyway, I wanted to try and get the girls to church camp this summer, so finally met with them last Monday and got registration forms filled out. 1 is at camp this week, the other 2 are registered, but not sure if they will be able to go because they need transportation. With the cost of gas these days, I'm not so sure anyone will want to take a whole day to drive the 2 girls to the site in SD where the camp is, then someone has to take another day to pick them up. I can't do it- I'll be out of town both days. Actually, I'll be at the ND campsite helping witha camp, so...
But I got a phone call at work yesterday from a lady who informed me that the girl who is at camp this week is supposed to appear in court today, for whatever reason. OOPS! Well, I didn't know. She wanted to know if something over the phone could be arranged, so I gave her the number for the camp and the name of the Asst. Director- a friend of mine. I hung up and literally 1 minute later (maybe 2) the mother calls, and starts saying she completely forgot about the court thing because she was so excited her girl got to go to camp...she told me she was thinking she was a bad mother and would go to jail. No, not likely. Anyway, hopefully things will get worked out! Interesting time at work when you are in the ministry (even though I'm not a pastor or anywhere close to it!)
Those are my thoughts for the day. Wow!

ThetaPrincess24 · #6 07-19-2006, 05:08 PM

Well this has been a bad week on my floor at the hospital. First off on Sunday night I swear we had a couple of looney toon patients. One liked her morphine a bit too much so we got that order cancelled and put her on another kind of pain mgt. drug. The other one was a highly confused 93 year old lady......who later became mildly combative. I decided to put oxygen on her because a lot of time when people's oxygen saturation drops below a certain point they start to become very restless and confused (before they turn blue if you will). That helped and fixed the problem then she became the sweet lil old lady she was last week. However now her oxygen has to stay on all the time or her oxygen drops and the mean-ness comes back. Obviously there is more to this story as well but I'll stop for now. Well then Yesterday morning one of my patients died at shift change......in front of me.....It was my first patient that I've lost and combined that I was there when he died. I saw him die...and eventhough he was on his way out of this world, we werent expecting him to pass so quickly.....the cancer had just eaten him up inside and there jsut wasnt much left. But I'm still upset about that. It's not something you get used to seeing and you shouldnt get used to seeing people die.

Then early this morning the computer system we use to chart on our patients went down from 1am to 5am so that made things extremely stressful........combined with two more ladies that I swear were nuttier than a fruitcake...........I'm so glad this week is over and I'm off to applebee's for happy hour!

DominoTheta · #7 07-22-2006, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

Well this has been a bad week on my floor at the hospital. First off on Sunday night I swear we had a couple of looney toon patients. One liked her morphine a bit too much so we got that order cancelled and put her on another kind of pain mgt. drug. The other one was a highly confused 93 year old lady......who later became mildly combative. I decided to put oxygen on her because a lot of time when people's oxygen saturation drops below a certain point they start to become very restless and confused (before they turn blue if you will). That helped and fixed the problem then she became the sweet lil old lady she was last week. However now her oxygen has to stay on all the time or her oxygen drops and the mean-ness comes back. Obviously there is more to this story as well but I'll stop for now. Well then Yesterday morning one of my patients died at shift change......in front of me.....It was my first patient that I've lost and combined that I was there when he died. I saw him die...and eventhough he was on his way out of this world, we werent expecting him to pass so quickly.....the cancer had just eaten him up inside and there jsut wasnt much left. But I'm still upset about that. It's not something you get used to seeing and you shouldnt get used to seeing people die.

Then early this morning the computer system we use to chart on our patients went down from 1am to 5am so that made things extremely stressful........combined with two more ladies that I swear were nuttier than a fruitcake...........I'm so glad this week is over and I'm off to applebee's for happy hour!

Girl, sounds like your little old lady has thrown a clot. Had two cases like that in the last couple of months. Both had thrown clots. Had one situation where I thought the lady had thrown a clot, but by the time we got to the hospital with her, I changed my mind. The oxygen didn't bring her around like the others. She presented the same way as the others, but it turned out being a bleed stroke.

DominoTheta · #8 07-22-2006, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by blackngoldengrl

Good luck studying for the MCATs, I know what you're going through, as I am in medical school now. I wish I had some good advice, but if I were to take them over again, I would invest in a professional course...expensive, but I think it would have helped me stay focused. I guess I did well enough without them though, and saved some money!

I suppose I should introduce myself, as I am also new. As I said I am currently a medical student in Maryland. I joined Theta in 2001, and boy do I miss those college days-sometimes. I'm currently in Los Angeles doing a summer program on aging, and it's been really great out here! I dread going back to the humidity of the east coast....

Thanks! I have been studying for awhile now. I have done so much already and with the test only being about a month away, I doubt there's much more I can invest in this. I've just got to keep my head on straight and stay focused! Haha. So much to ask...

DominoTheta · #9 07-22-2006, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by undtheta2000

Welcome to the site, DominoTheta! You mentioned your sister will be at U of Texas- Dallas in the fall. Is that where you attended as well?
Good luck on your MCATs!
~undtheta2000

Actually, no. I have never even seen the campus! Haha. I graduated from the University of Southern Miss in 2004. I'm not real sure how my sister got interested in UT-Dallas considering we are from a small town in MS, but she's visited it a couple of times over the last school year and loved it more everytime she visited it. I am VERY exited for her. It seems like a great school. It sounds even better having Theta on campus!

Hopefully this August goes very well for everyone!

ThetaPrincess24 · #10 08-11-2006, 08:31 PM

New news to report

I became an aunt today again! My biological sister gave birth to her first child today, a healthy baby boy. She is naming him Jaxson Franklin and will be calling him Jax. He is 7 pounds, 3 ounces, and 20 inches long with los of black hair on his head

He is a beauty!!!

Also, sadly my nursing externship ended last week with a suprise party given for me by my fellow night shift staff

There was pizza, chips and salsa, chocolate cake, and homemade banana ice cream

The security guy also gave me two rides on his golf cart

The nursing director on the floor liked the job i did so well that she offered me a job there to stay on as a patient care tech (the new politically correct term for a nurse's aide) working flex so I get to pick my schedule and easily work around my nursing school schedule. SO I'm quite excited about that and I start that job on Monday!

I also received the copy of We Who Wear Kites Volume II today that I ordered so I'll be reading that this weekend!!

As an extra bonus with that book, I also was sent some Houston Alumnae chapter old year book/directories and a few newspaper article cut outs as well. I dont realy want those or know what to do with them so I'm going to email our archives person and ask her if HQ would like to have them or something.

Update! I did email our archives person (I want to keep her name anonymous on this site) and she said that they would be thrilled to have these items and hope they will bridge some gaps in our alumnae archives. Her enthusiasm has me quite excited about sending these items to out fraternity archives!!!

DominoTheta · #11 08-12-2006, 10:06 PM

I know you are VERY exited right now! You've had an incredible week! I just want to send my most sincere congradulations your way and TONS of Theta love!

~<>~Insert "Rock-a-bye" here~<>~

ETA: I know it was a boy, I just needed an excuse to sing it again. Hehe. Love you all.

Janerz222 · #12 08-13-2006, 11:03 PM

I think I've posted this before, but this is the version of Rock-A-Bye that I sang to my son, in honor of your nephew!:

Rock-A-Bye, rock-a-bye my baby
Dream sweet dreams, dreams that someday maybe
You will _date_ a Theta too
Who wears the Black and Gold

Don't you cry, there is no reason
Theta _girls_, they're the ones in season
Kappas sigh and Pi Phis cry
'Cause they don't wear the kite

Rock-a-bye, bye, bye
Theta's kite flies high

Rock-a-bye rock-a-bye my baby
Dream sweet dreams, dreams that someday maybe
You will sing this when you're old
Building little wagons out of black and gold
Rock-a-bye, bye, bye. . .