during the medical assisting program i have become really close with some of the girls in those classes but LAUNA shippen has become one of my best friends. before we even knew each other, we had advanced first aid and medical law and ethics together. i always knew her as the girl that wore scrubs every day to class... i was partly jealous! in our medical law and ethics class, she would always tell this guy that i was not interested in to keep trying to ask me out because he really liked me... she would!! little did we know we would be best friends in the future. we first became friends in our first medical assisting class and we also had lab together. i don't even know how we started talking but we did and then we started studying for every test together... and it was true friendship ever since! ha we have been through a lot together through our year of medical assisting with giving each other shots, drawing each others blood, getting up for class at 7:45 in the morning, studying countless hours (or maybe just 1 for our tests), trying to memorize all of the drugs, ECGs, abbreviations, and instruments, taking a million vitals, trying to finish all of our homework during our other classes, falling asleep watching 17 again, hoping the testing center workers wouldn't notice our hot pink scrubs, being twins to lab, doing pointless billing and coding, and eating lots of doughnuts :)!! she is the most hilarious, sweetest, and most encouraging friend ever! she is seriously the best palster and i'm going to miss her lots! i don't even know what i would have done this past year if she hadn't been with me during the whole program! her and her husband will be moving far away so that he can go to med school but i'm way happy for them and we will always stay in touch!
we did a bulletin board on how to stay healthy during the rexburg winters... so i thought i would post these pictures to give a shout out for launa!
drink lots of water
get enough rest
take vitamin C ( i think that's what this one was )
take medicine if necessary
wash your hands
sneeze or cough into a tissue or your arm
go to the doctor and get your vaccinations
love this girl! hahah i'll miss her!