I'm just finishing up my first year of nursing school, where I've learned so much more than any other year of schooling in my life.
Here's the problem, I feel like I can't remember anything other than nursing stuff. My whole life I've had a fantastic memory, now I feel like I have dimentia. Ask me what I did last Tuesday and I'll sit and ponder ... and ponder... then daydream... then when you wake me up, I'll probably ask you to repeat the question. It's like my brain is so loaded up with new information that it chooses not to store any of the trivial things I used to always remember. Where'd I put my keys again? (minutes of searching only to find them in my pocket) Ok now where'd I park? (minutes of searching the parking lot only to find I rode with a friend). Maybe years of making fun of my mom's flightyness is catching up to me.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this while in school.
Does it get better??? Summer break is coming up. I think I'll give my brain a learning holdiay :)
It does get better school wise only to repeat when you start your new job! What helps is planning and organization. Things like putting the keys in the same place and keeping a calendar to remember important things. I started putting everything in my phone and making alerts. I thought that I was the only one this happened to! It will get easier when the whole nursing process just becomes like second nature to you. The stress of school affected me in subtle ways. I will agree with you. It was the hardest thing I have ever done also =) Keep us posted.
I'm just finishing up my first year of nursing school, where I've learned so much more than any other year of schooling in my life.
Here's the problem, I feel like I can't remember anything other than nursing stuff. My whole life I've had a fantastic memory, now I feel like I have dimentia. Ask me what I did last Tuesday and I'll sit and ponder ... and ponder... then daydream... then when you wake me up, I'll probably ask you to repeat the question. It's like my brain is so loaded up with new information that it chooses not to store any of the trivial things I used to always remember. Where'd I put my keys again? (minutes of searching only to find them in my pocket) Ok now where'd I park? (minutes of searching the parking lot only to find I rode with a friend). Maybe years of making fun of my mom's flightyness is catching up to me.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this while in school.
Does it get better??? Summer break is coming up. I think I'll give my brain a learning holdiay :)
HAAAHAAAHAAA I have given birth to 4 sons. Your brain power will return when you get some sleep and are not on the "sippy cup brigade" 24/7. I feel for you, I was so nervous when I started one of my pre-req classes, because I had been home with my boys for so long I wasn't sure that I could do it! But, a lot of the skills that we learn as moms are transferable! Time management, multitasking, and working well under pressure come to mind!
I have no excuse now then I guess. My boys are now 4 and 5! I must say though it has gotten better. That first couple of year as a new mom was rough. I started prerequisites when my youngest was one and here I am about to start nursing school (hopefully - awaiting the letter that decides the next three years of my life).
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
I'm just finishing up my first year of nursing school, where I've learned so much more than any other year of schooling in my life.
Here's the problem, I feel like I can't remember anything other than nursing stuff. My whole life I've had a fantastic memory, now I feel like I have dimentia. Ask me what I did last Tuesday and I'll sit and ponder ... and ponder... then daydream... then when you wake me up, I'll probably ask you to repeat the question. It's like my brain is so loaded up with new information that it chooses not to store any of the trivial things I used to always remember. Where'd I put my keys again? (minutes of searching only to find them in my pocket) Ok now where'd I park? (minutes of searching the parking lot only to find I rode with a friend). Maybe years of making fun of my mom's flightyness is catching up to me.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this while in school.
Does it get better??? Summer break is coming up. I think I'll give my brain a learning holdiay :)
Thanks,
Gabriel
Paybacks a beach!!!!!!!! ((WINK,WINK))...
Raising children, paying bills, keeping track of appointments, sports events, activities, grocery shopping, car pooling,solving domestic disputes (sibling fighting), clothes washing, house cleaning, carpet sweeping, toilet scrubbing, floor waxing, working Mom, wife, daughter sister,friend, Aunt, cousin makes any woman sleep deprived, over wrought, absent minded and over whelmed......I believed the term you used was flightly:bugeyes:.
I suggest you call your Mom and offer up an apology.....
I actually disappeared my first semester after finishing nursing school. Or so my friends like to tell me.
I forgot to call people back or meet them when I would make arrangements with them. I would forget where I parked my car. I forgot everything except....No I'm pretty sure I forgot everything.
My memory is still bad though. Its been almost 2 years O_o ....I think.
"my husband and i joke that i some how gave my babies part of my brain because i am definately not as on top of things as i was before having children."
i had some iatrogenic complications delivering my first child and spent 10 days inpatient with necrotizing fasciitis in my episiotomy (they mean it when they tell you never to go to a university hospital in july... well, i was planning to deliver in june, but that's ovulation for ya). i had been seven years as a hotshot icu nurse and when the new grads on ob discovered that they came to pick my brains before they took nclex. when one of them asked me, i couldn't remember whether atropine made your heart go faster or slower. took me about a month to remember. true story.
after that i went to grad school with a six-week-old at the breast. do not try this at home, friends. i used to say all my brains were going right out my nipples.
it gets better. but she's right-- it all goes to hell again when the grandchildren come all at once.:heartbeat
and spent 10 days inpatient with necrotizing fasciitis in my episiotomy (they mean it when they tell you never to go to a university hospital in July...
God bless you, grntea!
i can't imagine suffering with this, and you have my undying sympathies.
my fingers are crossed that another woman never has to endure this...
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
grntea.........i had some iatrogenic complications delivering my first child and spent 10 days inpatient with necrotizing fasciitis in my episiotomy :eek::eek:
holy cow!!!!!!!!!!!!! i mean.....wow.....just wow...... !!!!!!!!
god has a special place in heaven for you!!!!!!!!
wow........
i have a question..........how long did it take you to think about having other children?
we conceived her little brother when she was exactly two years old. i had him in a midwifery practice at a different hospital that time, much better experience :) i stayed overnight in the hospital because he was born at 7:30pm and i would have had to stay for observation anyway until 11:30, and i figured i might as well stay and rest. as luck would have it, i had a roommate who had a section and they came in every hour, flipped on the ceiling lights, and checked her fundus, making her yell. i got no sleep at all, lol.
must run in the family: daughter had mismanaged hospital labor for her first... and had a precipitous home birth for her second. i mean, about an hour of labor and daddy got to play catch with his son a few years sooner than he anticipated!all well.
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
we conceived her little brother when she was exactly two years old. i had him in a midwifery practice at a different hospital that time, much better experience :) i stayed overnight in the hospital because he was born at 7:30pm and i would have had to stay for observation anyway until 11:30, and i figured i might as well stay and rest. as luck would have it, i had a roommate who had a section and they came in every hour, flipped on the ceiling lights, and checked her fundus, making her yell. i got no sleep at all, lol.
must run in the family: daughter had mismanaged hospital labor for her first... and had a precipitous home birth for her second. i mean, about an hour of labor and daddy got to play catch with his son a few years sooner than he anticipated!all well.
amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my prayers for you and your family health and happiness!!!! what a story!!!!!!
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It does get better school wise only to repeat when you start your new job! What helps is planning and organization. Things like putting the keys in the same place and keeping a calendar to remember important things. I started putting everything in my phone and making alerts. I thought that I was the only one this happened to! It will get easier when the whole nursing process just becomes like second nature to you. The stress of school affected me in subtle ways. I will agree with you. It was the hardest thing I have ever done also =) Keep us posted.