Wendy Alsup

I finished a book! Practical Theology for Women. This book is helpful, thought-provoking and inspiring to know God's character. It challenged me to be more like Christ! I just found out that Wendy also has a blog. (http://theologyforwomen.blogspot.com)

John purchased this book and I want you to find out for yourself instead of me making a book report on the five reasons to read this book. As Reading Rainbow used to say "Don't take my word for it!"

there's no place like it

TOPSAIL ISLAND NC
The beach was a great get away from the city. I love what we call our " John and Amy time" - Here's some of the snapshots. Enjoy!




Molli's (a seafood restuarante that Shirley & Patricia Pope love)


A beautiful sunrise at the beach!

Ahhh Skin!
A really hot guy I was checking out

the best and worst part of being a nurse

Yesterday I took care of a 43 y.o. female she had been deaf until three years ago she had a cochlear implant. Can you imagine!
I came home yesterday crying because she was admitted with a bowel obstruction. The medical doctor taking care of her is affectionately named "Dr. G" - he and his interns pulled up the CT scan of her abdomen and he stated look that could be mal-practice (this means the Doctor in the ER was not paying attention and didn't read the CT scan properly). Dr. G said she needs a surgeon to consult her very soon. My thoughts, "Yikes this is serious!" She had come into the Emergency department the night before with nausea and vomiting. So today my plan of care was to make sure she was comfortable and be her advocate. I kept letting the doc's know she was extremely nervous please explain her test results and the next procedures. The test she was having today was a endoscopy. Knowing there was a bowel obstruction/mass the medical professionals took a sample of the cells for testing. The result: Cancer.
My patient came back from her test and I honestly hadn't been given any information nor had she. So she asked, "Am I okay?"
I looked at her and said the doctors are trying to take samples for what kind of cells the are they will come and talk to you as soon as they know the results. And so Dr. G said please text page me when the family is visiting. So I did. Soon enough the doctors came at the end of my shift bearing the bad news of her cancer diagnosis. I waved good-bye to her as I left for the day amongst her family members and smiled as if I had no words to console them at this period in her life-she smiled back and said thank you.

Long over due

Here are some photos of my trip with my mom. THANKS MOM for helping me drive across the country, share my fears, share the memories with me. (It was even her birthday on June the 6th) So almost 1950 + miles later, and 197 + dollars in gasoline bills, one stay at the Hilton Inn, one over night at Miranda's apartment...we arrived at Raleigh, North Carolina.

Yummy omlets before I leave!
The car is packed! Can you see it?


Happy Birthday breakfast at Cracker Barrel
Miranda Weston

Tennessee poppies

Yesterday as I was at my community group I came home thinking how wonderful it is to have the body of Christ (believers) surrounding me (the church was meant to be a source of community.) I want Jesus Christ to meet my needs anyone else will bring disappointment. Thought this Body of Christ can come in rare form as subtle as a word of encouragement, a heartfelt prayer, support of your interests and daily events.

CLUE

Last night Char, Joanna, Mara, Charity, John, and Bernard were invited to eat some mexican at the Doherty's house. (Sean and Natalie and their newest family member Kaitlyn she's almost 8wks I think). Yummy food. One of John's favorite board games is Clue. This was a learning curve for some of them because it is a newer edition game. We had teams of two's and one team of three. Sean and Natalie won the game and revealed the a) the killer, b) where c) the weapon used. John had solved it right before Sean and Natalie had their turn and won!

Getting around

I took small Thatcher for granted...now being in downtown Raleigh it's a little intimidating. I find my Garmin is a lifesaver when I become directional challenge (which is often) I had mapped out on the real map where the Post Office was today and when I got there CONSTRUCTION. It's gone! So I cheated, turned my GPS on and used it to find the other Post Office = less than 4 blocks away. Good grief.
I went to the Farmer's Market today. Love that place. It's better than a super market. Char, my roommate, and I got fresh peaches, blueberries, Fuji apples, you name it the probably have it. I guess on Saturdays you can buy it by the bulk. I have also visited in November and there are gorgeous trees, wreaths that smell so good.

Yesterday I went with John to Greek II. His whole class gets a kudos from me they are working really hard. I brought a book in case you were wondering...John also took me to Shorty's his favorite place to eat at Wake Forest (near his seminary). If you ask for "Hot dog all the way" you'll get a hot dog, chili, cheese, and chopped onions on a bun. It's good I couldn't believe how red the hot dog looked cooked it's just red looking meat weird. Very tasty. Speaking of food. I don't crave Subway as much any more my favorite food right now is Chick-fil-a. I do miss La Casita!