I was in a deep, deep, delicious slumber when I heard the morning bell. Three rings, a pause, three rings, a pause, and three more rings. UGH! I rolled over and looked at my travel clock. It was 8 AM. I had not gotten back into bed, after the disaster that was the first night…

After 3 hours of camp physicals I was pretty much wiped out. All the expended nervous energy had exhausted me. After the last of the campers left I spent another hour or so completing documentation and then organizing the medication administration records. I had completed one page for each child that required scheduled medications. There…

I am mentally prepared when the first group of campers arrive. I had been very thoughtful in trying to decide what to cover in the ‘camp physical’. Obviously I was not going to be able to conduct a FULL physical. Can you imagine? I cringed thinking of checking for hernias in all these boys! Neither…

After organizing all the various medications that I had managed to gather at registration, I took a deep breath. It wasn’t as bad as I thought since many of the meds were “PRN” meaning “as needed”, so I was not gonna have to hand them out  three times a day, every day like I had…