Are you read to get a bit silly? What video or song best describes you or another CTer? Oh, the possibilities. Continue reading
Nurse Wretched
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The losses came quickly for me. My Dad, the rock of our family, had gone into the hospital with swelling in his legs and pain in his hip. At most, we thought that they would say that his heart disease had worsened and that he needed his other hip to be replaced. What we didn’t expect, was the diagnosis: metastatic cancer with only a couple of weeks to live. Continue reading
Having hosted two German foreign exchange students (and being of mostly-German descent), I am completely and totally in love with Germany. Joke about Germany all you want, but they know how to do Christmas-time. First of all, you have beginning in late November, the Weihnachtsmarkts, which are these glorious open-air Christmas markets where you can wander around, buy lots of cool stuff AND get snockered on Gluhwein (a mulled wine). Continue reading
Women. How do they work? Well, if you have ever wondered what on earth a woman thinks on various topics, now is your chance. Probe away! (Doesn’t that sound dirty?) Do you have a question about sex? Romance? Why we freak out when you don’t replace the seat of the toilet? Ask away! Continue reading
Recently, I had the eye-opening experience of being in pain and entering the emergency room as a patient. I didn’t inform the triage nurse, nor my assigned nurse that I was a fellow RN, as I have found that there can be a negative reaction. Sometimes, they can feel threatened and that you are judging how well they are doing their job. Other times, they can view you as being a pushy know-it-all. Knowing that these reactions exist, I have taken the approach of pretending that I’m your average patient. Continue reading