Yea! We made it safely to Fairfax, VA on Friday afternoon. It was a long 14 hour drive, we drove straight through the night on Thursday and were completely exhausted. Neither one of us slept much between driving shifts. I crashed at 6 on friday evening until 6 on saturday morning!
Our apartment is HUGE! Two bedrooms 1.5 baths. They only furnish one bedroom and our living space is huge too, so our apartment looks quite sparse, but thats okay. We have tons of room if anyone wants to visit, just bring a blow up mattress, we have space for at least 3 or four of them, crazy! We also have the top floor this time, which is great until we started climbing all the stairs to move in, but we made it. We have new carpet which is great, because our last apartment had really dirty and stained carpet. We also have this huge balcony. Overall much nicer place, less convenient, W/D not in apartment, bummer we have been very spoiled! And no garage so we have to lug our bikes up and down and do not have a place to store our trailer. The office won't let us just keep it in the parking lot either. I guess we'll have to find a storage unit somewhere. The area feels pretty safe, which was a huge concern of ours while trying to find housing. I think it will be nice place overall.
So our next adventure begins...
On Friday morning the hospital in virginia calls... to tell me that the unit I interviewed with is closing and they are going to place me in one of the other critical areas. At first they told me I would be placed in the neurosurgical ICU, (I don't have much neuro experience, I started sweating). They said that they are willing to train me. I took a deep breath and said I am very teachable and love to learn, but I will need a lot of support from the staff. I called my nurse recruiter right away and left her a frantic message... then the hospital calls back and oops they had me mixed up with another traveller and will be placing me in the coronary care unit. A sigh of relief I have a lot more cardiac experience in comparison to neuro experience. Okay so I get to work in the cardiaic ICU in their heart hospital! Wow and they are willing to train me, and work with me. I am a little overwhelmed and excited, I love cardiac nursing and can't believe I get this opportunity to work in such a large teaching hospital to learn it all. So it begins on Monday...
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