Countdown!

No more how-far-along posts, its time to countdown the days until Owen arrives :) So 5 weeks give or take.

All this last week the baby has been hiccuping every day and almost every night, so we thought we pretty much knew where the head was-the left side. (It's funny because I told Kent the baby is already keeping me up at night and it was such persistant thumps that I got up and tried to burp him ;) by walking back and forth rubbing my tummy!) Well come to find out at my appointment last week the doctor recorded the baby as turned, this is what the nurse told me today on the phone when I asked about an ultrasound. She said I was so far along that the ultrasound was pointless.

So when I asked the doctor what the difference between turned and dropped was he said the baby is head down and even though I have to go to the bathroom all the time now, I haven't dropped. Anyway, he did an ultrasound and he said it's for sure a boy and he is still head down. The hiccups are just the diaphram involuntarily contacting as the baby practices breathing. This past week I have felt alot of changes and I definitely feel big and ready!

Neah Bay, Teton National Park, and Huckleberries

We picked huckleberries today! So juicy and Kent juiced them up with sugar and cinnamon in a hot pot and then we used the filling in Kent's flaky turnover dough.

Yummy.

Lick the screen good.

The other day we drove up to Teton National Park near Jackson on their free entrance fee day.

Gorgeous peaks that we can see from Rexburg on clear days, now we've seen them up close. It was a fun drive.

All last week Kent was gone on his family's annual halibut fishing trip to Neah bay, Washington. It is the northwest tip of Washington and they fish up in Canadian waters. He has gone every year since he was 10! They also caught alot of salmon this year too and crab. I went last year, but not this year because its a two day drive!

Now our freezer is full of fish--the excellent kind of fish--the kind of fish that sells at Broulim's for $10 an inch---no lie.

This halibut is fresh and moist and excellent! Good omega-3's too :)

Transcription Training--all I do these days

My cousin Mickele asked me how my medical transcription training is going and my answer was so long that I deleted it and decided to make a new post. (Mickele does medical transcription.) Becoming certified and employed is my number one goal right now (besides my number one priority of getting our baby here healthy).

So the program I am doing is very in-depth I have decided. I have had lessons and quizzes on everything from grammar and typing tests to anatomy and medical word building. I am still working as a secretary at BYU-I and in between calls and solving customer problems I work on the lessons all day!

After some pharmacology and document formatting lessons, I will do about 300 hours of clinicals or real work. I will transcribe audio files of doctors reports and recieve feedback as I improve my accuracy, speed, and research skills. These excercises will prepare me for the final and then the employers' tests.

I'd like to finish by the end of September and then have a week or two with the baby while filing out applications. Hopefully I will work part time or four hours a day(during the baby's naps).
Wow Mickele, I think this post is way technical and boring. But tell me did your course include anatomy and physiology and pharmacology?