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Justin and Ashley finally had their baby! Her name is Ella Winter and she is absolutely precious! I went to visit her Saturday night and she was the most quiet baby I had ever seen, but apparently not so quiet when you want to sleep. Congratulations guys! You'll be wonderful parents! I figured that everyone had heard about this happening, but for those who didn't, now you do!

I got to spend the end of my day and my night with Jamie, too. It's always nice to spend time with your family, and to me, Jamie is more like a best friend than anything else. We had a great time. We always seem to get ourselves way more excited than necessary over things that we want to do. Haha. We went to KFC, Blockbuster, and Tops, and had nothing but fun. There's always fun when Jamie is around, regardless if you are doing something or just talking. We had a pretty good talk about life too, and it felt nice to relate to her in another way, though I won't say exactly how. She is just amazing when you are really just up to seeing family.

I suppose I should update about school and clinicals and health as well! I woke up today with a definite cold. I guess this means I can't visit Ella until it's gone, but she will be here for a while still! ;-) So I slept all day today and relaxed. Although my lungs still feel like there is a bog inside them and I still have a fever, my throat feels completely better. That definitely could have been caused by sleeping with my fan on, which I love to do because the noise puts me to sleep. Clinical has been going pretty well! I work in the pediatric clinic every Friday and I have a blast. All I do is take vitals and give immunizations (which I love) but I have the best time of my life. This last Friday, there was a patient who had to get 5 different shots. She was about 4 years old I believe (not my patient), and dad wanted us to do all 5 at the same time. That's exactly what happened. Five nurses went in equipped with one needle a piece. We held her down with the help of dad and got it done in less than 5 seconds. I personally think it worked better that way because usually we do two at a time (one nurse for each leg) and then the other two. If we would have done that, we would have had to stick her 3 separate times, and after the first stick, the kid knows what's coming and doesn't thoroughly enjoy it.

School itself is going great. I've got 100's in my classes so far based on quizzes and tests and I feel as though I have little to no homework. This is a good thing in case I get too sick. I decided this year that if I get hospital sick, I will actually go into the hospital instead of waiting. Last school year I waited and as a consequence lost nearly 15% of my lung function in the process. I gained some of it back but it still took a toll on my body. It definitely taught me not to wait it out too long if I think I'm getting sick. Anyways, it's late, I don't feel fantastic, and I need some more sleep aside from the nearly 14 hours I've gotten since last night.