Personnal lives or reckless?

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i have a question as nurses when should it be a "you should know better because your a medical professional" or if it is just living out lives?

see i often wonder if my hobby is one of recklessness or not. i ride horses, but not only ride its kind of a passion. i compete (or did last summer) and i do quite a bit of training. so here is the reckless part, i take 1500 pound animals to 4ft fences at quite an alarming pace (its faster than it looks). and if the horses get scared or just doesn't agree with my plans i can end up kissing the dirt or worse the fence or the horse's feet. i also start from scratch on several horses each summer, being the first one on a horse is an incredible feeling, and being with them as they start to understand that riding can be a fun and exiting.

i feel on top of the world when i'm riding and at the barn, i would never give up that feeling for anything. i know it is a dangerous hobby, and i have my riding injury list (a few to many broken bones, and 3 concussions) but to me it is worth it.

what hobbies do other nurses have that maybe could also be considered reckless or fall into the category or "you should know better"? i'm just trying to learn more about the people whose profession i will soon be joining.

thanx sr

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i reread and edited and some of the spelling and grammer, but i'm sure it's still not perfect:p

I agree that the spelling comment was a bit harsh. When chatting online my hands go faster than my mind :chuckle (i am the typo queen!)

To the OP, there is a risk with everything. I know these chips aren't exactly nutritious... but I'll eat them anyway!

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
I'm with you. This can be a rough crowd.
If you think it is rough here, try some other sites! :devil: :(

They attack you if they disagree with you and leave scars! LOL :chuckle :rolleyes:

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As nurses, we all know that life can be short. So we should make the best of it. I scuba dive as well as ride motorcycles. I take all the safety precautions that I can. I wear a helmet and I dive within my dive tables. But, I'm going to enjoy life!

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Wannabee,

Have you ever heard the term "Nurses eat their young?". LOL..I feel sorry for you when you get out of school into the nursing field. With that attitude of yours you will be gobbled up in no time! :rotfl:

As far as hobbies go, I say "to each his own."

BUT, as far as you joining the profession, I suggest you take a refresher course in grammar and spelling before you apply to nursing school. Didn't you just graduate from high school? How can your grammar be that bad when you just got out of school? Just how many concussions have you had?

I'm sorry to be so mean, but I am applying to nursing school late in life and I am very nervous about getting into school. It makes me sick to know that people who can't even speak or write their OWN language could be accepted. :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Cardiac/telemetry.

I am 47 and a student. I don't feel I am "starting late." I am starting when I chose to start.

Okay, my turn. I ride horse, hike with my GS dog, hunt - both rifle and bow. For stupid, try sitting in a 2 x 2 tree stand 15 feet off the ground in heavy wind and rain for hours - alone in the wilderness. Duh! (hey, but I got my bear). And scuba dive. The scariest thing I do is allow my 17 year old daughter to ride dirt bike and play rugby!

My question to skydivers - what if you change your mind? At least scuba diving, if I feel uncomfortable with the dive, I can go back up. What do you do after you jump? Sorry, changed my mind?????

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LOL @ mauser...don't think you can change your mind there! LOL! It would be nice if you could...I might actually try it then.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

My question to skydivers - what if you change your mind? At least scuba diving, if I feel uncomfortable with the dive, I can go back up. What do you do after you jump? Sorry, changed my mind?????

Hee hee ...

Well, Mauser, you're on the ground within 2 minutes, so there's really no time for second thoughts. You're committed. :chuckle

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Wannabee,

Have you ever heard the term "Nurses eat their young?". LOL..I feel sorry for you when you get out of school into the nursing field. With that attitude of yours you will be gobbled up in no time! :rotfl:

Well maybe its because some of them new lil Graduate Nurses look so tasty and tender :rotfl: :rotfl:

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
I am 47 and a student. I don't feel I am "starting late." I am starting when I chose to start.

Okay, my turn. I ride horse, hike with my GS dog, hunt - both rifle and bow. For stupid, try sitting in a 2 x 2 tree stand 15 feet off the ground in heavy wind and rain for hours - alone in the wilderness. Duh! (hey, but I got my bear). And scuba dive. The scariest thing I do is allow my 17 year old daughter to ride dirt bike and play rugby!

My question to skydivers - what if you change your mind? At least scuba diving, if I feel uncomfortable with the dive, I can go back up. What do you do after you jump? Sorry, changed my mind?????

If you change your mind, you just stick out a thumb and hitch a ride

Just remember though hitch hiking is illegal in some places

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Having almost died 3 times (never mind how), I tend to throw caution to the winds. For example, I don't wear my seatbelt when I'm driving. In Indiana, pick-up trucks are exempt. When I ride on the back of my husband's motorcycle, I DON'T WEAR A HELMET!! Helmets protect one's head only in accidents involving speeds under 25 mph. I would rather die outright than have a high cord injury and "live" on life support for years. The one time my husband and I were in a wreck, I broke my right foot and he broke his clavicle. My mother said if we'd been wearing our helmets, that wouldn't have happened. :rotfl:

Is my spelling, punctuation, grammar and syntax okay? Wow, I sure hope so. :p

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Specializes in ER!.

I don't ride as much as I used to (my boys are dangerously close to becoming pasture ornaments) but I raised my 4-year-old from a 5-month-old weanling who was rescued from a meat packing plant. He has been the light of my life ever since he entered it, and I did not leave my cheating, abusive ex-husband until I was able to get Bailey home with me. I was prepared to sell a kidney if necessary. When I ride him, I do it very carefully, more out of concern for screwing him up for life than for me. But it is exhilarating- nothing, nothing, nothing comes close to hearing the wind whip past you from the back of a galloping horse. And when he's your baby, and you have that bond established with him, it's just surreal. Gets me a little teary-eyed just thinking about it.

It has been my experience that horse people, or anyone else with a hobby/passion, are just too content with themselves and life in general to even consider making the effort to compose lengthy, snippy criticisms over another person's spelling. Trust me, if you're raising horses, and your other job is nursing, you don't have that kind of time.

As wannabee has not yet responded to any of this, I trust that (s?)he has finally found a hobby of his/her own. ;)

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.
This board may not be the place to critique one's grammar, but let's not underestimate and undervalue the importance of good grammar. Spellcheck and calculators have made laziness acceptable in the classroom (I stand by my mother's famous words: "Look it up in the dictionary")

Sean

I don't think anyone is devaluing proper spelling and grammar. They're just remarking upon how petty it is to point out such errors while largely ignoring the substance of the post, and how bitter such a critique seems.

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