Dimple's Discoveries

Time for a medical post again! Sorry to those of you who follow me for the medical posts, I will do more once I’m back at my jobs again. I’m actually headed back to work soon and getting a short break from school (very excited!) and it’s got me thinking back to some special moments I’ve had with my patients. I realized that one patient in particular has affected the decision I made to choose my career of counseling instead of nursing, and I wish I knew where he was so I could tell him that. I remember it like it was yesterday. It had been a long day. I worked four hours at one of my jobs, had three hours off, then went to my other job and worked 16 hours there. Working twenty hours in a twenty four hour period is exhausting, and I was pretty slap happy by the end of it. I was on auto-pilot trying to make it through the shift, starting it off by ‘rounding’ on my patients and doing vitals, and I went in his room. He was a very fun patient, he has a dry sense of humor that I hadn'...

Today's post is something I have strong feelings about, so this one might be a little more passionate, but I feel like it's an important thing to address, and I would like to make a stand to anyone who reads this blog, in the hopes that I can help diffuse some prejudices (and yes, I mean prejudice) about LDRs (long distance relationships). We learned in my Family Relations class a few weeks ago that communication is broken down as follows: Words=14% Tone=35% Non-verbal=51% We will be forced at times, no matter our relationship, to use alternative forms of communication, and they cut out 86% of our communication ability, but does that mean that we can't make this work? Does this mean that a military man or woman has no hope of ever finding and retaining love? Does it mean that we can never maintain a healthy relationship with someone who we don't see every day? Absolutely not! It just means that your communication skills have to be better than the average c...

Sometimes you just need a pick-me-up in life, and as I've been job hunting and having no success so far, I've needed to find little ways to cheer myself up and re-motivate myself to keep going, so here are some of Jade's favorite things in the world: (I made this cake!) Kid History Episodes: especially this one! Kid History: "Fact!" Episode 4 Smelling the car wash as I walk past Getting sprayed by sprinklers as I go somewhere Dr. Pepper  Babysitting my cousins  Quoting movies Anything Disney Chocolate Wearing sweatpants, T-shirts, or scrubs Taking a drive alone while jamming to my favorite songs  Gerbera daisies Thunderstorms Zebra print Writing to my best friend on his mission Wearing mis-matched socks One Direction songs: especially "What Makes You Beautiful" Zumba Talking to Kylin  Teaching women about domestic violence or self defense Pinterest  Quotes Harry Potter  McGriddle breakfasts at McDonalds 'Hey Girl' po...