I've totally been remiss in blogging lately, haven't I? Somehow the evenings and weekends are never long enough to get everything done.
Right now, work has settled down a tiny bit. We have another session with out consultant next Saturday to start putting into place some of the recommendations he has made and that we have tinkered with. This past week, I discharged 4 of my clients with whom I've been working very heavily (with them or with their families). All four of them had become very dear to me. One in particular - a sweet Mexican man who came in the same week that I started at TLC. Even having to do therapy with him and his wife through a translator, I had a really strong connection with him. He cried and hugged me before he left and told me he'd never had a doctor who worked so hard for him before. It's patients like these four who remind me exactly why I love my work so very much. Of course, now that these four are gone, I'll be getting a new crop next week.
We're settled into the house now. Finally, finally, finally, we have all the furniture that we have purchased so far. We just got our bed on Tuesday evening and Rebecca's bed on Friday. Her room is really shaping up; Ramy painted it last weekend, and I got her new bedding. It will probably be the first room to be completely decorated the way that I want. So far, there is still nothing on any of the walls. That will be changing over the next few weeks, I hope. I really love the house, especially my kitchen. I love having so much counter space and storage space! I'm looking for a set of antique-looking white canisters that are in the Provencal or French Country look. I haven't fully decided on bedding for our room yet. There is a Pottery Barn set that I like, but Ramy isn't as much of a fan. If it were up to him, we would have bare white walls, plain white sheets, plain white blanket, and a bed in a bag comforter that could grace any dorm room. Not exactly the look I'm going for!
I am scheduled to take the EPPP on August 28. I've been trying to study in the evenings and on weekends, but by the time I get home from work and have dinner and spend time with my family, there isn't a lot of mental energy left. So I'm glad that I registered for the intensive seminar. Cramming is a skill that has served me well throughout my academic career, so I figure there's no need to do anything at a logical, reasonable pace at this point. It's quite amazing to me how little the material on this exam has to do with the actual practice of psychology. What the hell is the Zeigarnik effect? (It's the concept that we remember unfinished tasks better than finished ones). So I'm heading to Las Vegas to take that seminar in a couple of weeks, and I'm bringing my mom and Rebecca along with me. They can have fun at the pool and seeing the sights while I'm frantically learning all the things that I never learned in graduate school.
Rebecca is her usual delightful self. She has been singing new songs a lot this week. When we ask her about them, she said, "Oh it's a God song I learned at school." So far, it has been pretty chilly on her splash days at school, and she does not like to get wet and cold. We're supposed to get a heat wave this next week though, so that could change. She loves her new Kanani doll! Every night though, she sleeps with her menagerie of stuffed dogs. One morning she told me that she woke up and couldn't breathe because all her puppies were in her face but she didn't want to move them.
Please pray for my good friend Lucy's sister Connie, who was in a terrible car accident on Monday evening. She suffered multiple traumas - brain injury, open fractures in her leg, several broken vertebrae, essentially a crushed ribcage, etc. etc. She is making a good initial recovery and has done well with all the surgeries she has already endured, which is certainly the best predictor of a good outcome from trauma, but it will definitely be a long recovery. Fortunately, it seems that her brain injury is relatively minor from what I have heard, so I don't think she'll be in the kind of shape most of my patients are in. But please pray that her recovery continues at this pace as well as for her whole family.
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