June, 2006 Archive

June 29, 2006, 4:24 pm

Hitting the Wall

Ever feel like this?
The baby can represent anything.
Your family.
Your job.
Your life.
All of the above.
I re-discovered something I had noticed long before.
Life doesn’t stop because you need to stop.
Kids still need driving.
Clothes need washing.
Houses need cleaning and
Suitcases need packing because you are leaving in less than 48 hours and your husband is only two days post [...]

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June 22, 2006, 5:38 pm

Must…Get…Moving! Must…Have…Control!

Must stop talking like Captain Kirk!
I’ve worked with nurses like this.
Good ones.
You will get up to ambulate post-op and you will not give excuses.
She heard them all!
And lord help you if you didn’t have a BM prior to discharge.
She had ways of getting you to go!
John may have had nurses just as tough.
He never got [...]

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June 14, 2006, 9:19 pm

Eeeeeeeeee-nough!

Romance!
Adventure!
Excitement!
Spectacle!
Nah.
More like “Pissed Off!”
Okay…. I like this poster because my name is on it.
Never mind that “Kim” is a guy.
Errol Flynn, no less!
I really should see this movie, now that I think about it.
I’ve had a thing for Dean Stockwell ever since “Quantum Leap”. And don’t even get me started on Scott Bakula…I’d need [...]

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June 5, 2006, 8:16 pm

Saturday In the Dark

Well excuuuuse me for interrupting the party!
If I had known radiology was such an exciting department I would spend more time there!
That woman looks just like my old 1962 Nurse Barbie, including the glasses.
The doc in the back must be an intern. He has either discovered his first pelvic fracture or he’s pointing to a [...]

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I'm a registered nurse who has seen life from both sides of the health-illness continuum. In plain English, I'm not happy with what I have seen as a patient and as the wife of a newly diagnosed diabetic...

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