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Hey everyone,

I hope everyone is doing good and in safe health.  As for myself, I am doing alright.  I am getting pretty tired and I really want to start working.  I will start off with school, move into PT, and then go onto adventures just so I cover all the bases.

I just started the pediatric rotation in the hospital.  On this floor, there are only 5-10 patients at a time, so it is pretty slow, but it’s alright.  In a way, I don’t like it because it is very sad to see some of the children in such bad shape.  There’s a 13 year old kid that is going through chemotherapy for a disease that has only 100 diagnosed in the U.S. it is that rare.  It’s pretty hard, but just seeing how cheerful most of them are brings your spirits right back up.  This is my last rotation out of five, so I am almost outta here!  My favorite clinical rotation has been the ICU, which is a very hard working environment, but it is also best for learning.  Plus, you get to workon the ocassional code blue LOL!  That is so wrong for me to say that, but it is the greatest feeling when you can say I helped save someones life today.  I hope to do my 3 week long internship in there, but we’ll have to see where the instructors want to put me.  I have had a couple of RN’s ask for me to be there interns and put in a good word for me, but it is ultimately up to instructors on where I go.

Every morning, before I go to the hospital, I always go to the gym at 0500 and work out for an hour.  I had gained some weight over christmas, but since I weighed myself in February, I have lost 7 pounds!  I take a PT test on Friday this week, so hopefully I will get a high enough score to get a waiver and be promoted to Specialist!  The last PT test was valentines day, but I had sprained my ankle to weekend before skiing at Crystal Mountain, so I didn’t do that great.  O well, I will get it this time.  Company PT in the afternoon has been terrible, but it is what it is.  Our chain of Command says that they want to change it up, so we do some fun different stuff, but we had a couple of stupid junors break some bones at the gym while we played basketball, so we can’t go to the gym anymore.  It seems like all we do is run and boy do we run!  On Friday, we ran 5.7 miles in an hour! and then on the schedule for PT on monday is another four mile run.  I don’t mind running, but an occasional ab or upper body work out would be great.  Whatever.

On February 5th, I got new orders on where I am going after I graduate this course.  I am going on a one year, possibly two tour of Korea baby… hells yeah.  I am so psyched.  As many of you know, I have never been outside of the U.S. other than Canada, so it will be a great friggin adventure.  I leave from here on the 6th of May and have about three weeks off and then I leave on the 25th of may; I don’t have to report until the 29th, but I want to go over early and report so I can in process and actually start working on the 29th.  I got an email a couple of weeks ago saying which company I am in… supposedly I am going to 557 Military Police CO.  I am not sure what I am going to be doing there, but I could be potentially working on a detainment unit (a jail for people who try to go AWOL overseas) or working as a medic in the field.  I am not sure, but I have been talking to them more and more and hopefully will know here soon.  Either way, I am stoked to go!

In between May 6th and the 29th I have a couple of weeks of leave, so me and my best friend/neighbor, Kelley Miller are driving back to Texas together and stopping at a couple of cool places along the way, like the Grand Canyon and Cali and stuff.  It should be pretty fun times.  Until then, I have a couple of mud pit that me and the guys like to go to in the trucks and also a couple of rivers and lakes to fish in.  The salmon run starts up here in a week or two, so I will let you guys know how it goes.  Recently, I have just been mudding in the truck, fishing hasn’t been great, so I haven’t been going… too cold.  Other than that, I have just been chilling.

I will talk to yall soon.  Take care and I wish you the best.  Send me a message now and again just to let me know how everything is going.  Later!

Rob