This is for the Blogger Dictator...part 2

The second hardest thing about leaving was having to leave my amazing friends who helped me to have one amazing spring/summer. Here is the proof! :)I know they aren't in order blogger messed them up :(

It was cold and windy at Chelsea's LAX game.

ASHLEX, ASHMAZING, ASHTASTIC and I :)

"Look I have a mustache!"

Yes Emma is a picture thief

Carrie and I at the Rockies game :)

Caden and I in the backseat on the way to Austin and Chantry's wedding. We played Wii the whole way there :)

Holly and I at Emma's graduation

Melly and I at Bike Polo. We did not play we just looked good watching. lol

It was a fun car ride to Utah.

Free "SHLURPEES" on 7-11-11 :) The only normal picture we took.

Phillip the unicorn came along for the ride.

After about twenty or so pictures they finally both got off the ground at the same time. haha

yes that is me and yes that is Emma's giraffe tongue. lol

Devin and I at Austin and Chantry's wedding reception.

Mom and I taking pictures while Chelsea and Emma were getting ready for Prom.

I have no idea what we were doing, but Mel that was a great last night :)

The fam at Emma's graduation.

Chelsea and I at Emma's graduation.

Ashlex and I at Emma, Erica, Brittany, and Lindsey's graduation party.

Carrie and I in the rain at the Rockies game.

Tim just had to "save" Ashley's slurpee. lol

Timberly and I at the grad party :)

Chelsea stole Emma's cap and gown lol She is prepping for this year. lol

Melly, Ashley, and I in the trunk of Mels car for a photo scavenger hunt.

Oh Tim....why do you have to stick your tongue in my sister's ear? lol

We love each other. Can't you tell?

At graduation dinner. Caden and Chelsea were at a table alone for a while and it looked like a date. Caden was freaked out...can't you tell. haha

Carrie and I ant the midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Devin and I at the reception. We had a great time!

The "group" on one of my last nights in Colorado. I miss you guys.

Emma and Chelsea on the way to the Rockies game.

Ashley and I. I miss you!!!

Devin and I were cold at Chelsea's LAX game. 

This one is for the Blogger Dictator...

Yes Jessica this post is for you! Let me just say this is my third time writing this post. Everytime I almost post it it gets deleted somehow. So here is hoping this one works.

Let me first start by playing catch up from my last post. As Nancy told me this morning my last post was 100 years ago and so much has changed. Well after I passed the NCLEX life was pretty fabulous. It didn't last very long though. Scott and I broke up at the beginning of March and then around my birthday I got extremely sick. Two days before my birthday I went to the doctor because I thought I had strep. Well I went in and they did a strep test and it came back negative. She told me it was just a strep throat. Yeah no. Well then I went home and just slept. Not getting any better. I gargled salt water like they told me too and nothing helped. Then I went back in on my birthday and the doctor told me it was just a sore throat. I could barely talk. I could barely swallow and it was just a sore throat?! I don't think so! Well my mom demanded I get antibiotics and we went home. But before I left the doctor told me that it possibly could be mono but I should just come back in three weeks if it doesn't get better. Ok I am a nurse I know you don't have to wait three weeks from onset of symptoms to do a blood test. She was a MORON! Yeah I swore that day I would never go back to her. So I went home yet again with no definite answer. I was beginning to think that it was all just stress from the breakup and then the next day it became increasingly hard to breathe. I went to take a nap, it seemed like that is all I did for the month of march. I woke up early from my nap barely being able to breathe at all and I went up stairs to my mom and told her that we needed to go to the ER now. She drove me and my dad met us there. I was having such a hard time breathing and could barely swallow I started to get panicky. The nurse who was designated to start my IV should never start another one in her nursing career! My arm was black and blue from the inside of my elbow to my wrist. If I weren't so weak I would have hit her. They started giving me fluids because I was dehydrated. Then the doctor came in. She was so nice. She looked in my throat and said "the doctor that looked at your throat must have been blind!" she got me a mirror and I could see the whit patches in the back of my throat. I could also see that my tonsils were almost touching. She ordered my the really good pain medicine and two huge doses of antibiotics and two huge doses of steroids. She started talking about CAT scans to see if I had an abscess in my throat. But she wanted to see what my blood work looked like first. The nurse came in and thankfully it wasn't the awful IV nurse. Lol she gave me the pain medicine and started the antibiotics and steroids. As soon as that pain medicine hit my system I felt no more physical pain. But every emotion I had been harboring for the past couple of weeks came out like a flood. I couldn't help it. I tried to hold it back because I didn't want my mom to see me like that. It didn't work. I just cried and cried wanting things I knew I couldn't have. I eventually let it all out and could just sleep. The doctor came back and told me that not only did I have strep but I had mono as well! She said that she hadn't seen a case as bad as mine in a while. Great not only was I sick but I was sick with the kissing disease and I was single. Awesome. Not! Well I stayed in the ER for about 6 hours then I got to go home. When I left I was exhausted but I could breathe and I could swallow. My diet after that consisted of fruit Popsicles and chik-fila milk shakes. Mmm now I am craving that. Haha well I took three weeks off from work and just slept. I slept in the guest room so I would be close to my mom. She took such good care of me! :)

The mono tiredness passed and I was able to go back to work at the Y and start really looking for jobs again. I would send out 10-15 applications a day. Nothing came. Then one day around Emma's graduation I got an interview at a nursing home in Boulder,Co. As soon as I walked in I had a bad feeling. It just got worse by the minute. If I took the job I would have been a charge nurse of 28 patients and the only nurse on the floor with only two nurses aides. There would have only been four nurses in the building. I would have only gotten 5 days orientation. Yeah needless to say I turned that job down. I went back to the drawing boards. Sending out applications day in and day out. I decided that if I didn't hear anything by The end of July I would look at going back to school to get my BSN. Well May and June came and went and I heard nothing. I began to look at different nursing programs to bridge over my associates degree to a bachelors degree. Then one day in July a miracle happened! I got a phone call. It was a 931 area code. I usually don't answer numbers I don't know but something inside said "ANSWER IT!" so I did. Beverly McAbee was on the phone and she asked me if I was still looking for a job. I told her I was but I told her I didn't know who she was or where she wanted to give me a job. She told me that she was the Chief Officer of Nursing at United Regional Medical Center in Manchester, TN. My jaw hit the floor. She asked if I would like an interview. I told her that I was in Colorado and asked if I could have phone interview first before I decided to fly out or not. She agreed and I asked every question I could think of and she had an answer for all of them. So at the end I told her I would book a flight and come down. So I booked one for the next weekend and I went down. I stayed with friends of my family, the Caten's, they were so good to me. I came in the middle of their family reunion and they still picked me up from the airport, let me stay with them, drove me to and from my interview, and took me back to the airport. Not only did they let me stay but they helped me get my job. I had no clue but they have shares in my hospital so Brian went in with me on the day of my interview and he said he would throw his weight around. Lol he made sure that Beverly saw me with him. He was so good :) then in the interview she asked where I was staying and so I told her. Turns out she grew up with Brian! Small world! Yeah it made it a very nice interview. Actually she only asked me four or five questions and she then started talking about when I would be able to start. All I could think was did this actually just happen? Do I actually have a job as a nurse? There were so many miracles that got me this job and I will never forget them. Then I flew home but not without some difficulties. I ended up being stuck at the airport for two days. I will never fly stand by out of Nashville again. But thanks to the Fiala's I was able to get home. I owe them big time!

When I got home the real fun began...PACKING! haha not! But thankfully my family had just downsized to an apartment so most of my stuff was packed. The hardest part about leaving was leaving my baby sister. She is my best friend. I know that I can tell her anything with no judgement. Before I left Erica Moore took pictures of us. Here are a few. Erica is AMAZING!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NCLEX

Well I finally did it. I passed the dreaded NCLEX. Hardest two and a half hours of my entire life. I went down to Pueblo last Wednesday night and took the test on Thursday morning at 10:15. I was so nervous. But throughout all of my nerves and craziness I still had the best support system anyone could ask for. Not only did I get to go down to Pueblo a day earlier to relax a little but my Mom, Dad, and sister Emma came with me. It made it so much easier. I had to wait all day Friday and Saturday morning to find out. When I finally could find out I didn't want to. I thought Scott was going to murder me. I just wanted to live ignorantly. So my mom made me do it. Because if I wasn't going to do it either she or Scott were going to hack my account. This is something that I had to be by myself for so I got on my computer entered the credit card number to pay for my early results and hit enter. I was ready to throw up. I looked at the screen and it said PASS. I was in shock. I looked at it three more times and it still said PASS. Oh happy day! Scott wanted, well demanded, that he be the first one to know. So I called him. Of course I was crying. I was so flippin happy! I quickly had to tell him that these were happy tears. Then my mom opened my door and all she heard was me sobbing and saying "I am NEVER EVER EVER taking that test again!" She was worried. I told her I passed. I thought she was gonna pass out. Best day of my life. I have never been so happy. It is fantastic! I don't really know what to do with myself now that I don't have to study for five hours every day. It is weird. My room has been getting a lot of needed attention so that is good. Now I just have to wait for my license to some in the mail so I can start applying for jobs. I can't wait! I just want to help people, that is my goal. I am so glad that I can now legally say that I am Hannah Mero, R.N. :) Thank you to every single person that gave me hope and helped through the hardest years of my life!

Happy New Year!

2010 has come and gone and it did not end the way I ever thought it would. Let me recap 2010.

1. I turned 21... I guess that would mean more to me if I actually drank or partied. haha
2. I graduated nursing school!
3. Austin got home from his mission.
4. My Gramma walker died. She was one Amazing lady!
5. I went to my first concert...Hello Brad Paisley!
6. I found out I am moving with my family to Tennessee.
7. I went to Mount Rushmore for the first time, and Bear Country, and of course WALL DRUG.
8. November 1st I got one amazing boyfriend. :)
9. Decided that I am not moving to Tennessee anymore. The family still is.
10. Went to Zoo Lights. I LOVE THE ZOO!
11. Went on a scavenger hunt for my one month anniversary. It led me all over the place ending up in front of the place where it all began with Scott holding flowers. That was a good night.
12. Went to the Parade of Lights with the parents and Scott. We got really sick of people bumping into us and saying "excuse me" so we left and went to Jack N The box where they did have PASTRAMI.
13. Wore an Ugly Sweater I got from my mom. It isn't ugly though, just not my style.
14. Looked at Christmas Lights
15. Had a really great pre Christmas with Scott. He got me the most beautiful necklace. I hardly ever take it off. Then we went to PF Changs for the first time. It was good. Then we went to boondocks to play Laser Tag for three hours with 13 other people and I ended up loving mini golf more than I ever have in my life.
16. Had Christmas with the fam. Almost everything I got was purple. I must love purple.
17. Had to say goodbye to Scott. I hate goodbyes.
18. Was awake for New Years.
19. Was woken up three nights in a row by a dumb dog at 3:30am! BOO

So far that is it. This next year is going to be a good one. I can just feel it. I plan on taking my NCLEX within the next couple of weeks. I also plan on making some road trips to Idaho to visit Scott. Oh how I love road trips. :) I also have to get a job in Colorado so that I can stay here. Here is to a great year!

No worries I am still alive...

     So you may have been wondering if I had fallen off the face of the Earth. Well a lot has happened since I last blogged. Let me catch you all up.
1. Austin came home on June 25th

 2. My wonderful Gramma Walker passed away on July 25th. She is my inspiration. I want to be just like her in every way. I love her so much and miss her a great deal but I know i will see her again. :)

 3. Emma started her last year of high school! She is a senior and along with that came lots of picture taking. :)

4. On September 25th Brad Paisley came to town for his H20 tour! It was a BLAST!

 Yes we all matched in plaid!

 Me, Scott, Carrie, Rylee, Emma, and Chelsea all in plaid! :)

 Scott and I :)

 Carrie "We look like a pyramid!"

 The girls! :)

 The guy! :)

 Scott creepin in the back. lol

 I am grouchy at you!

 These were our grouchy faces :)

 This picture defines their friendship!

 Sisters :)

 Sisters :)

 Scott and I :)

 Blondes always have more fun!

 Especially when you have to hold up Emma when she is acting drunk!

 The brunettes. Scott is such a ladies man.

 I love you Rylee! :)

Brad Paisley came back to sing to the "cheap seats", a guy behind us called them the value seats. haha 

It was such a good concert and it was so much fun. Brad Paisley is an AMAZING entertainer. I am so glad that I got to go with such amazing people :)

5. On October 26th the Mero family is going to make the trek up to South Dakota. Yep we are gonna see baby bears! :) I am just excited for vacation. :)

Well that is pretty much it. Life is pretty fantastic right now and I am just going to enjoy every minute of it!