How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Profound question. A woodchuck would chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood! Profound answer. I loved this rhyme when I was younger. It is running through my mind today as I think back over the last six weeks at work. I feel like a woodchuck! And I am tired!!
It all started with our CEO wanting to initiate a Wellness program for our employees. Then we were asked to allign the program with the company benefits plan, and then we were challenged to perform health screens on over 1500 employees during the month of June!!! Can't be done? Surprisingly, yes it can!
Mind you that each person screened (all 1500+) generated at least 10 pieces of paper. All labs were recieved in duplicate, had to be reviewed for abnormals, matched and transcribed to the individual's questionaire, then scanned individually and profile results were printed. Then the results were sorted, matched back with the printed copy of lab results, placed in envelopes with corresponding form letters explaining the next step, double checked for accuracy, and then sealed and mailed. The duplicate lab results were then filed in the charts. We started June 3rd and the last results were mailed July 11. I really feel like I have "chucked all the wood that a woodchuck could chuck!"
But I do love my job and the people I work with. God has blessed me with this opportunity to learn how to apply the principles of wellness to help others improve their health and avoid chronic diseases. That is our goal, prevention and wellness. And it is all about choices. God gave us free will and choices to make. Most chronic diseases in America are the result of choices, type II diabetes, coronary vascular disease, even high blood pressure most often is the result of modifiable risk factors. Yes, genetics can give us the tendancy, but the choices we make everyday regarding food and activity, are our's to make.
Well, that is what my life has been revolving around lately. On the family front we have Levi and Britt busily nesting!! They have pruned the greenery in their yard, put down new flooring in the
laundry room, painted their room and now also the living room. Levi has 5 more school days in Tifton!!! He will be on active duty for two weeks in August here in Rome, and then they will be focusing on the wedding plans.
Lacie is busy this summer with her two favorite activities...working with her Uncle Junior (construction) and babysitting our dear friends the Waldons. She is excited about her new major and nervous about starting at yet another new college. I think she has truly found a major she can stick with. She has started looking for mission trips that require building and is so excited she has to share all the details with me! What an awesome thought that maybe one of my children will be a missionary! There are so many schools, medical clinics and homes for needy families that need to be built!
Cody is on his second mission trip of the year. He has also helped feed the needy here in Rome.
It breaks his heart when he tells me how many hundred of sandwiches are given away here in our own home town. Again, how awesome it would be to have a child become a missionary. He hasn't had much idle time this summer with mission trips, soccer camps, and his job at the local hardware store.
Keith and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary! Shania Twain says it best in her song, "You're Still the One". He really is and I am so thankful for the life we share. If you would, please join us in prayer for Andy and Jerrie Bulloch that God will meet their every need abundantly and bless them to overflowing. Thanks!!
Jenny
It all started with our CEO wanting to initiate a Wellness program for our employees. Then we were asked to allign the program with the company benefits plan, and then we were challenged to perform health screens on over 1500 employees during the month of June!!! Can't be done? Surprisingly, yes it can!
Mind you that each person screened (all 1500+) generated at least 10 pieces of paper. All labs were recieved in duplicate, had to be reviewed for abnormals, matched and transcribed to the individual's questionaire, then scanned individually and profile results were printed. Then the results were sorted, matched back with the printed copy of lab results, placed in envelopes with corresponding form letters explaining the next step, double checked for accuracy, and then sealed and mailed. The duplicate lab results were then filed in the charts. We started June 3rd and the last results were mailed July 11. I really feel like I have "chucked all the wood that a woodchuck could chuck!"
But I do love my job and the people I work with. God has blessed me with this opportunity to learn how to apply the principles of wellness to help others improve their health and avoid chronic diseases. That is our goal, prevention and wellness. And it is all about choices. God gave us free will and choices to make. Most chronic diseases in America are the result of choices, type II diabetes, coronary vascular disease, even high blood pressure most often is the result of modifiable risk factors. Yes, genetics can give us the tendancy, but the choices we make everyday regarding food and activity, are our's to make.
Well, that is what my life has been revolving around lately. On the family front we have Levi and Britt busily nesting!! They have pruned the greenery in their yard, put down new flooring in the
laundry room, painted their room and now also the living room. Levi has 5 more school days in Tifton!!! He will be on active duty for two weeks in August here in Rome, and then they will be focusing on the wedding plans.
Lacie is busy this summer with her two favorite activities...working with her Uncle Junior (construction) and babysitting our dear friends the Waldons. She is excited about her new major and nervous about starting at yet another new college. I think she has truly found a major she can stick with. She has started looking for mission trips that require building and is so excited she has to share all the details with me! What an awesome thought that maybe one of my children will be a missionary! There are so many schools, medical clinics and homes for needy families that need to be built!
Cody is on his second mission trip of the year. He has also helped feed the needy here in Rome.
It breaks his heart when he tells me how many hundred of sandwiches are given away here in our own home town. Again, how awesome it would be to have a child become a missionary. He hasn't had much idle time this summer with mission trips, soccer camps, and his job at the local hardware store.Keith and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary! Shania Twain says it best in her song, "You're Still the One". He really is and I am so thankful for the life we share. If you would, please join us in prayer for Andy and Jerrie Bulloch that God will meet their every need abundantly and bless them to overflowing. Thanks!!
Jenny
8 comments:
i love u sooo much and i always get excited reading your blogs!!!! thank you so much for the prayer requests and all of the listening and encouraging advice. It means more than you know....and even more so does it mean the world to me that you always listen to crazy fun events from my day to day life!!! haha i know i always have a lot to say, and although your ear my get tired, it means so much that you listen! im proud of you for your job and the work you have gotten done. i can't imagine having to deal with all those fabulous "boys and girls" from the fabulous public. u just remember you are a GENUINE nurse at heart who has a profound love for people and their well being. U go girl! :)
My goodness!! Your prayers and the strength of the Lord must have carried you through that event!! How come whenever you get a transfer, there's always some HUGE change in the near future....hhmmmmm....I wonder. Probably because they know how incredibly smart and capable you are to take the bull by the horns and do things right!! I am so proud of you.
I love you and WANT that cup of coffee with you just as soon as you can make it by. I love you dearly. The pictures were just great, and I love the way you write!!
Deb
Way to go!! What an amazing thing to accomplish! Prevention of disease is key. Treatment is an option, but prevention is so important.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Thank you for all of your hard work, you are such a blessing to so many.
Congratulations on 23 years. That is WONDERFUL!
I love you and miss you,
Noel :)
Talk about a mouth full!!!! SHEW!!! I started feeling tired just by reading that! You are AMAZING!! Hope was reading a book to me and Baby Girl the other day and a little boy in it said that his aunt was tough and it seemed all aunts were tough! That is SO true!!!
It is so cool when people tell me,
"You look and act just like your Aunt Jenny!"
Thanks for being a great example and never giving up!
Sounds like you have been a busy beaver (that's the only other wood eating animal that I could think of besides termites!) at work. Wow, that was a tremendous amount of paperwork.
The house photos are great. It sounds like they are really coming along with all of the work. How very exciting for them.
Thanks for the updates on your other two children. I know that you feel blessed and encouraged by the direction in their lives.
Blessings,
Debbie
This is your Mother!! Yea!! I have a name, there's a Jim Croche song about that : )
I LOVE the new scripture on your header! It is so pretty!
Hey!
What a great post! The pictures are great and your endurance is incredible!
I love you,
Hope :)
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