Above most other things, that is what I want my home to be. A sanctuary. A place for people to be accepted completely, loved unconditionally, and welcomed with joy. A place of rest. This does not always happen. I have lived with people whom I was not willing to accept, love or welcome. I [...]
Archive for the ‘Clinicals’ Category
From The Palace – Sanctuary
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 25 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks of words (of which my word processor recognises only seven)
Posted in Clinicals, School on 23 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
dioxetane
luminogenic
paracrine
intrathecal
sepharose
nascent
methanogenesis
dynode
holmium oxide
didymium glass
quadrupole
pinocytosis
leptospirosis
ixodid
morula
ochronosis
leukotrienes
pauciarticular
iridocylitis
nephelometry
effete
vicinal
isocratic
Small Moments, Big Question
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Overheard, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Clinicals, Community, Small Moments on 12 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning road trips. Wondering what to wear, what book to read aloud in the car. Imagining listening to the radio on scan and laughing at small things glimpsed through small windows.
Reading instrument manuals and package inserts, trying to learn principles. After the tenth word is written in the margin with a question mark behind it, [...]
Seen Out and About: signs that made me laugh
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments on 28 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the hospital: Keep out of light. Store in the dark.
Between here and there: Mini-self storage. For clones gone wrong?
On one of the instruments: a circle with a line through it, crossing out…an elephant? No elephants near the vitamin D machine, please! Upon closer inspection, the elephant turned out to be a pacemaker. This makes [...]
Small Moments: From the Floors
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Small Moments, Thankfulness on 24 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A nearly casual question about a book in the windowsill led to a heartbreaking story of love and loss. The storyteller thanked us for listening, but really it was the two of us who should have done the thanking.
Stopping in the hallway between two rooms, preparing supplies. Between the monitor beeps and the call bells, [...]
This Must Come First
Posted in Clinicals, Growing on 22 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can be hypercritical. Don’t be so surprised. Just watch me in a room with a speaker and see the things I write down. Watch me write down things after I’ve given a lecture. This is what I do. It is something I am good at. Watching, questioning, making improvements, making cuts.
I am not here [...]
Not Sleeping in the Needles
Posted in Clinicals, School on 20 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So far, school has been contained between the hours of seven and three-thirty. This is good. It will no doubt change as we move into the full lecture schedule next week, but I have been grateful for the respite. For the time to go slowly, absorbing my surroundings.
There is a church in need of a [...]
Out of Quarantine
Posted in Clinicals, Thankfulness on 8 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newsflash everyone: I do not have tuberculosis.
First Day
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, School on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first Monday morning. I am awake more than early enough, just a little nervous. The hospital is just a short walk from the apartment so there should be no worries about being late. I know where the room is, deep in the basement, around three corners, past one corridor of laundry carts taller than [...]
