My Work Without Pay

Behold, this is the Kolff Dialysis Center where I am doing my first rotation! I am working with a pharmacist here and basically we go to talk to the patients while they are having dialysis and go over their medications with them, then we make sure that there aren't any problems with the doses or if they need any additional medications, and we make notes of that in their chart. I also have to do research and read alot of scientific papers and do presentations. It is pretty fun though, I like it. It is fun to actually be doing something with all the information I've learned. The only bad part is that dialysis involves alot of blood and needles, and you know how I hate blood and needles!! (For anyone who doesn't know, I tend to pass out easily at the sight). The first time I talked to a patient hooked up to the machine it grossed me out... but luckily I haven't passed out yet.

Wahooooooo

Ha ha! I think I just beat out Alvey's record for longest time not updating the blog... sorry! I do have some new pictures- these are of a trip I took with my dad down to Moab a couple of weeks ago during my free week between the end of classes and starting my pharmacy rotations. We had a great time on the Slickrock "practice" trail. This picture is of me about to do a faceplant into the sand.... just kidding, luckily I didn't --though I almost did.

Fun times with the Iverson's

This week I got to hang out with an old mission friend, Melanie. We were never actually companions but we shared a house and helped keep each other sane :) We went up skiing at the Canyons with her husband and his brother last friday. Then this tuesday we went to a climbing gym where she is a member. It was really fun- they are very adventurous, even the baby (Hattie) loves going to the climbing gym and the ski resort!

Ahh the dream...

This is where I should be pretty soon, if things had all worked out as planned... I actually had a goal when I was a kid to be the first women on Mars, and since we were supposedly going to have people on Mars by 2008, I thought that would work out perfectly! Maybe they need pharmacy astronauts... :)

Snowboarding Day at the Canyons!

I skipped out on class today (wahoo!) and went snowboarding with my sister, Erin. It was a fabulous day, sunny and warm even, we had to unzip our jackets. We had a good time. I just love the snowy mountains and the evergreens and the powder when you just kind of float over it. We wanted to go off some jumps too, but the place where they usually have the "baby" jumps, which are the only ones I dare to go off, was closed! And we didn't dare to go off the really big snowboard park jumps, even though we considered it. So no cool jumping pictures, unfortunately.

A New Indiana Jones!

Hey is anyone else as excited as me that the new Indiana Jones movie is coming out in May?? Its SOO about time. And Harrison Ford is still sexy :)