Stories of a wondering Mind

I have been thinking lately about life and where I'm headed. I hope I'm headed down a path of happiness but only I decide that. I am going to school at Salt Lake Community College and have decided to go into their continuing education program of "Diagnostic Medical Sonography." aka: Ultra sounds. I would be the person you go to for a pelvic/abdominal or obstetrical Ultrasound. I could work at a hosptial, off-site office or a doctors office. I think I would like it. I like doing x-rays at my work right now becuase I get to call the patients back and do the x-ray on them. So I would be calling back patients doing ultrasounds on them. The doctor would read the ultrasound and be the final say but I would do the work. It is a job that I think I would like and feel like it is a worth while job. I wouldn't be imbarrassed to say what my profession is.

Right now I'm imbarrassed about my profession. I'm a medical assistant. You see all those ads about going back to "steven's henegar" or places like that to be a medical assistant. DON'T do it!! It is a job of a dope. Any one could do my job. I just call back patients, get a weight and blood pressure. Go over their meds and then slam the door shut. It doesn't pay good and I feel like I'm not smart and not doing anything. I don't know what half the meds are and what they are for. Yes, I know more than the average joe because I'm around it all day, but I'm no Registared Nurse or Doctor for that matter. I want to do something better. So, I'm hoping that is what schooling is going to do for me.

I have three more classes, each has to be taken separately and so I have 3 more semesters and I'll be able to apply for the program at SLCC, but then it is two full years in the program. So if I stay on track in 2012, age 34, I'll finally be a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer. My mom said she would help he with the financial part, which is a huge relief, but that still doesn't help me study and get good grades. I am obsessed with my grades. I got my first A- last semester so that ruined my perfect 4.0 but I still have a 3.9. I am in physics right now, and then next semester-FALL, I will be taking Dance 1010 and Biology 1610 and a lab with the BIOL class. Hope I can mustard up enough energy for all the classes, work Thurs, and Friday and still breast feed every three hours.

Speaking of breast feeding, it is going good, but Connelly is a stinker. He won't bottle feed. He needs to start doing it because in Aug. I am filling in at work for a whole week for a lady and he will starve. He is pretty chuncky and so I doubt he will starve but you never know. He is my little Chuncky Monkey. I love him. Especially right now, because he is in his swing and sleeping. That is when I really love him. HA HA

So back to I have been thinking about my life and happiness and all that.... I think life is great. It isn't what I imagined but it is good. When you are little and imagine your life, you have a small small scope. Now that I realize money, school, family, and all the unmentioned are factors in the REAL world, I know that my idea of life when I was little is false. I use to say that I would never get old, sore, weak, tired, lazy, achy bones.... However life happens and I do get older, more sore, weaker, more tired, and achy. I can't say lazy because I'm more active now than ever with all I have to do. I am more compassionate towards elderly people that complain about their aches and sores because I know one day, unfortunatly, that will be me. Even though I have a hard time believing it..even as I write it. But I see that I can't stop time and time just keeps getting the better of me and my good figure, young skin, and perky breasts. These things might just be a thing of the past.........But then again there is always plastic surgery.