Archive for September, 2008

• Looking Back- Living my dream in paradise

  Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

  I have mentioned that I had wanted to be a nurse since I was a small child. Well maybe not so much small as just young.
  I married in 1963, to a military man, and we were sent to Guam. ”Guam!” ”Where is Guam?” So much for remembering my history lessons. Out came the old Funk and [...]

• Fake CPR Cards

  Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

  At a hospital in West Covina, California, it was reported that 50 health care workers were fired or quit due to having fake CPR cards. There is no justification for this. 
  You are sworn to give the best care possible to people who are at your mercy. Oh, I know all the excuses they will give. I don’t [...]

• Cancer - This Nurse’s Nightmare P3

  Sunday, September 14th, 2008

  I went back to work with my badge of courage, a scare that runs from under my right shoulder blade to five inches above my right wrist. I have never tried to hide it. I think of this as something to remind me that I am a survivior. As little as I thought about it, [...]

• Cancer - This Nurse’s Nightmare P2

  Saturday, September 13th, 2008

  Most patients hate being in the hospital but nurses hate it even more. Yea!!! After 5 days I was going home. No more hospital food. No more hearing patients call out through my medically induced sleep and trying to answer them. I went home with my right arm anchored to my body by a very [...]

• Cancer - This Nurse’s Nightmare

  Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

  I can’t pinpoint when I first started to feel bad. I know that the first symptoms I noticed were the hurting in my right arm and shoulder. I complained to my doctors and got the pat answers. You are getting older and we all get arthritis or bursitis. Not wanting to be a pest, I [...]