PinkLady

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1. Who works at Kaiser? Help!!

   PinkLady replied to PinkLady's topic in General Nursing

   I just want him to get his medicine and get home. He is due to get out Saturday. I don't want them to ask him to leave today and then we can't afford his meds. I have already applied for medi-cal

2. Who works at Kaiser? Help!!

   PinkLady replied to PinkLady's topic in General Nursing

   We have had insurance forever and he was paralyzed in an accident. Insurance was supposed to last for 9 months but union told us 18 months so they messed up and suddenly say we "ran out of insurance" since Jan 2007... So as he lay in the hospital t...

3. Who works at Kaiser? Help!!

   PinkLady posted a topic in General Nursing

   My husbands employer screwed up and to make a long story short my husband is in the hospital with no insurance. They just cancelled it. When the docs and nurses chart him etc. will they see that he is cancelled? Does it happen that fast in the syst...

4. Quadriplegic Question

   PinkLady replied to Bumashes's topic in General Nursing

   people that have suffered spinal cord injuries are prone to certain things an able bodied person is not. That being said, common reasons for death in someone with SCI is kidney failure (bladder care needs to be managed effectively or else, well, you...

5. Quadriplegic Question

   PinkLady replied to Bumashes's topic in General Nursing

   I know plenty of people that have very happy lives living with and loving a quad or para. The "labeling" is only referring to whether or not the injury is cervical or thoracic. My husband can't feel below his nipples and he is considered incomplet...

6. Quadriplegic Question

   PinkLady replied to Bumashes's topic in General Nursing

   Every level of injury is different. Quadriplegic is not waist down however, if the injury is incomplete, he may have feeling below the level of injury.

7. Quadriplegic Question

   PinkLady replied to Bumashes's topic in General Nursing

   My husband is a paraplegic. The best thing to do with regard to understanding more about it, is ask him. Every level of injury is different and some people recover things others do not. I have done a lot of research about spinal cord injury. If yo...

8. Too many classes - Chemistry and Anatomy in one semester?

   PinkLady posted a topic in Career Support

   Now that I decided to become an RN, I want to hit it full throttle! After being out of school for about 10 years, I just completed math and Nutrition. Now I want to take Chem and Anatomy. I cannot skip ahead to something without a lab because I ne...