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verushka70Well, I found out via phone call to the "early results" phone line that I passed the NCLEX-RN exam! I am (almost) a Real Nurse now (I just have to apply for, and pay for, the license from the state). So: what a relief! That's one load off my mind!
Sadly, in other news, my mom is still in the hospital. Every time they get her up to walk around, her blood O2 desaturates (she loses oxygen from her blood). That's why she gets so tired. So clearly there is still something going on with the lungs, although they are saying the chest x-ray showed no changes from the last one. But the last one showed post-radiation fibrotic changes (hardening in spots) and pleural effusion (collecting of fluid). Sometimes I think the cure is worse than the disease. Well, no, I guess that's not true; anyway, it's hard to say, because there's no knowing how bad or good she'd be doing now if she'd never had surgery, chemo, radiation, and more chemo. Maybe in the limitless (according to quantum physics) alternate universes in which she took all different steps to deal with the cancer. But then, if I could access those, I'd access the alternate universe wherein she never got lung cancer in the first place. Sigh.
Sadly, in other news, my mom is still in the hospital. Every time they get her up to walk around, her blood O2 desaturates (she loses oxygen from her blood). That's why she gets so tired. So clearly there is still something going on with the lungs, although they are saying the chest x-ray showed no changes from the last one. But the last one showed post-radiation fibrotic changes (hardening in spots) and pleural effusion (collecting of fluid). Sometimes I think the cure is worse than the disease. Well, no, I guess that's not true; anyway, it's hard to say, because there's no knowing how bad or good she'd be doing now if she'd never had surgery, chemo, radiation, and more chemo. Maybe in the limitless (according to quantum physics) alternate universes in which she took all different steps to deal with the cancer. But then, if I could access those, I'd access the alternate universe wherein she never got lung cancer in the first place. Sigh.