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Wowzers, I have been a major slacker!! So here is the deal, I am going to start posting something every Sunday. This week was great! I started working and let me tell you it feels amazing. The therapists are so nice and funny. On my second day in the clinic I had a patient with low back pain, I read what the therapist did with the patient on their previous visit and said alright I can handle this. The patient was extremely nice and I even told him he was my first patient and that he might need to help me with some of the exercises. In the end, I did the exercises completely wrong and after the patient left I realized what I had done. I felt like a failure, I told the therapist what I did wrong and he said don't worry about it, how about we go over those exercises? At the end of the week I was feeling a lot better about myself. I saw 5 patients and did great with all of them with a little help from the therapists. Sometimes we have really high expectations for ourselves. Like my husband told me, "They didn't just hire you for your knowledge, they hired you because of who you are and what you have gone through." I feel like everyone should remember this. A job isn't all about the knowledge. I feel that knowledge is only 40% and your personality, how you deal with conflict and communication is 60%. So don't get discouraged like I did, pick up that chin and keep truckin forward!!

TRAIN was outstanding!! Steve got tickets from his mother for his birthday, so we went and had a great time. We ran into another BA LVAD nurse there and we sang our hearts out together.



Happy 24th of July everyone and thank you to all the pioneers that traveled the plains through the bitter cold to the raging heat, lost loved one and still kept moving forward. I honestly don't know if I could be that strong.



I have an announcement... DASH.4.ASH is coming to Wheeler Farm on October 10th, 2015. So save the date!! You can check out the facebook page at DASH4ASH and I will keep you posted on when you can sign up. It is going to be another 5k walk/run so get excited!! I am going to be there and I am participating :)





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