In case you haven’t guessed, I’m not posting much because my life is kind of at a stand-still for a while. And since I know this is a public forum and know it can be read by anyone, I’m not publishing my thoughts on the situation, just because it makes it more difficult.

Everything was supposed to be “final” last week, but, handling this on my own (aka sans attorney), I missed an integral step in the process and arrived at court only to find out I didn’t actually secure the date. It was quite upsetting at first, as you can imagine, but I soon came to grips with it and worked fast to take the necessary steps to secure the next available date, which is next week. If all doesn’t go as planned, it will be another two weeks before I get another slot. Its not that I’m in a hurry, but I don’t want to prolong the situation either.

One positive is that I’m going on vacation soon with my mom and brother. We’re going to the Outerbanks, which has been frequently suggested to me as a place to visit. So my mom is flying into Nashville next Saturday, and then we fly to Norfolk, where we’ll meet my brother, and drive to Nags Head for a week on the beach. I am very much looking forward to it.

The injury that was a result of my water sports accident last weekend is almost completely healed. I had the stitches taken out on Thursday and you can barely see it even now. Sorry, I don’t have any good pictures. I’m supposed to keep it covered with sunscreen to lessen the scarring, so that will be one of my primary tasks on my vacation.

Oh, and during my soccer games tomorrow. Tomorrow is the beginning of the Championship games, so if we win the first one, we’ll stay to play another one. I’ve had a week off and haven’t practiced at all. I hope I can hold up the whole game. Hopefully we’ll have at least 1 girl sub this time.

you hear about who do stupid things on the lake, especially on holiday weekends? Well, I think I might be one of them. I went out with a friend yesterday and, while inner tubing, hit my eye with my knee. Yes, it is possible…and I’ll show you how if you don’t believe me.

But anyway, I didn’t know it at the time, but I actually got a 1.5cm laceration deep enough to warrant stitches. Unless I could settle with a nice big scar above my right eye. Which I cannot. Here is said laceration:

So, yesterday I spent almost 4 hours in the Vanderbilt ED and was told I did indeed need stitches. Hurray! They did a really good job and it looks even better today:

Nice eye shadow, huh? I think I may put some on the other eye just so they match. Can’t wait to see how colorful it gets.

She finally did it. After years of promising to get a new computer “next year”, my mom finally up and bought a new MacBook:

Not only did she get a brand new computer (the previous one she’s had since 1995), but she upgraded from dial-up internet to wireless high-speed internet through Verizon. To overwhelm completely, she also now has 200 TV channels to watch on her 21-inch television set. Amazing.

The best part is she did it all without telling me or my brother. She has been planning the thing for months and even stayed home yesterday to wait for the Verizon guys to install all the equipment and to set up her new laptop. Then she sent an email, of all things, to let me know she was “wired” (even though she’s really wireless, but whatever, it was cute).

*sniff sniff* I’m a very proud daughter right now.

Now I remember why take-out and frozen dinners are smart choices when cooking for one. Fresh vegetables and bread seem to go bad quicker than they should. Or maybe I’m just not creative enough with the ingredients I have in my cabinet and fridge. That is very possible.

This week marks the half-way point in my project to fully implement the outpatient clinics on the new electronic surgery scheduling form. It has been a long road to get to here, over 3 years of investigation, development, and trial and error. To sum it up, this process allows clinic schedulers to use one form to request OR time, get their patient’s pre-certed for surgery, and schedule a pre-op evaluation appointment. Previously, it could take up to three forms to complete that process.

Additionally, this means that the OR schedulers, pre-cert staff, and pre-op eval staff now all receive the same form from these clinics, instead of every clinic sending their version of the form in a million different ways. The electronic form has been in development and testing for as long as I can remember, but our EMR is finally able to keep up with the advanced tasks we are asking it to perform.

Anyway, the actual implementation has been a huge accomplishment of mine over the past 4 months, and I hope to be completely finished by the end of summer!