Wisconsin

Dessert always makes life better, am I right? I got to go on a CAP inspection to Wisconsin last week, To say I was worried is a complete understatement. I had Mike give me two blessings because I was so worried I would mess the whole thing up. He gave me one as I prepared and another the night before I left. It was so comforting to feel the spirit and to know the power of the priesthood.

On the plane ride out, I sat in the middle (sigh) between and really nice man who works for the National Guard. He helps run the incentive programs and was in Utah for a conference. On the other side, was a woman from Canada who had been in Utah for the Young Living Farms oil convention. It was an interesting ride as she asked many questions about the church and sort of argued with me about being a daughter of God. It is sad to think of others who don't feel they are children of God and she didn't really want to hear what I was saying. I was kind of relieved when she turned to the man next to me and tried to sell him on essential oils and their benefits for soldiers. When she first sat down she thought we were married to each other too. It made me laugh.

The inspection went well I think. The system we were inspecting was absolutely floored when we showed up. They thought they were having their pre-inspection phone call. Apparently, putting that off three times just made the professional CAP inspector mad, so there we were. I was one of two transfusion people, Lauren Fredrickson was the other. She is amazing! She has her SBB and found out while we were there that her abstract was going to be on a poster at the AABB meetings in October. She really helped me out. She reminded me they were more afraid of us than we were of them. HaHa.

We didn't get much downtime because a the hospitals were so far away from each other, but when we were in Green Bay we went to the stadium. It is a beautiful stadium! I was so impressed with the architecture and the attention to detail. It is a really pretty place even if you aren't a fan.

It was mentally exhausting. They people were were inspecting were pretty hostile to us because they thought it was unfair of us to come on a holiday week, but they hadn't blacked it out so it was fair game. One of the CAP inspectors named Bessie said she once did one when the 4th of July was on a Wednesday. I think the thought putting off the phone call would put of the inspection. Surprise! It didn't. Some of the transfusion people were absolutely hostile toward Lauren, but she shot them down. Go Lauren!

I'm glad to be home, but I sure have a lot of things I want to make sure I have ready before our inspection and the window opens August 1st.

Milwaukee was a really pretty city and I loved how clean it seemed. I wish I could have seen more.