Hi all! Thought I’d share a few things and let you know what our day-to-day lives look like. I am starting to volunteer at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center soon, but there are about 1200 steps I have to go through first. This hospital is mainly where soldiers from Iraq and Afganistan are transported to after being injured in combat. Also, it serves the giant American military community surrounding our area. Needless to say, it is quite the facility and will be a great place to gain nursing experience. The in-processing to a military medical center is very involved and even more so since I am hoping this volunteer position will lead to a staff position down the road. I will be volunteering in the capacity of an RN in the Pain Management unit. This means I will work closely with anesthesia doctors on procedures like nerve blocks, epidurals, and even acupuncture. I think it will be a great learning experience for me and I am really excited to start! I can volunteer as much or as little as I want each week and can set my own schedule, which is very convenient. Jordon works 12 hour night shifts 4 days a week, and has Wednesday through Friday nights off right now. This makes our “work weeks” interesting! He is also taking an Anatomy class online in pursuit of his Exercise Science degree so we are lucky to get an hour of quality time together during the days when he works! He is currently recovering from his latest oral surgery and will have another surgery in about a month. This allowed for a few days off work so he has been enjoying a very long weekend. We got a parking ticket the other week and decided to pay it the other day. Turns out, the entire ticket is in German. We were able to decipher a few words but that didn’t help too much. We saw something that looked like an address on the ticket, so we typed it into our GPS and it took us to the general area of the building we needed to go to. After showing 3 very helpful Germans our ticket and asking where the heck we needed to go, we found a tiny office where we paid the fee. This just goes to show you that simple things like paying a parking ticket over here can turn into quite the ordeal. But it’s all a learning experience and we are up to the challenge!
It is getting really cold here already, it's not uncommon to be in the 30's and low 40's during the day. Hope you are all doing well, Happy Halloween from the both of us!
Pretty church in our town, about a 10 minute walk from our house
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