Archive for the ‘My Journey’ Category

• Continuing through my travels of the medical profession

  Monday, January 11th, 2010

  I have to say this again. I have been a RN since 1963. I worked full time plus part time jobs and well as as much overtime as I could get. Why am I saying this? Because I have had time to observe doctors and can make a judgment on which doctors are good, poor, [...]

• Dying to be thin

  Thursday, September 17th, 2009

  I have chronicled my fight with weight and know what its like to want to be thin. I have gone to some extreme methods to try to lose weight due to the pressure I put on myself and the pressure I received from society. I can remember a fad that was going around in the [...]

• Looking back

  Saturday, September 5th, 2009

  I guess as we live longer we forget things and I am guilty of this. I meant to write an anniversary post last month but with somethings going on in my life I just forgot. Looking back over the year that I have been blogging it has been times of frustration, pride, and joy. I [...]

• The Battle rages on

  Monday, February 16th, 2009

  If you have read my blog before, you know that I have a number of health problems from being a cancer survivor to a sufferer of Fibromyalgia. Most people and doctors acknowledge my other problems, but when it comes to the Fibromyalgia, even my orthopedic doctors say there is no such thing. I respect this [...]

• Why Work?

  Thursday, February 12th, 2009

  If you have read some of my earlier posts, you know that I have worked long and hard for many years as an RN. Most of the time I would pull overtime and worked parttime selling Amway, Herbalife, and stockings to fellow nurses. I even collected aluminum cans and had a small paper route. What [...]