markko

When I was 16 years old, I took an "Intro to Health Care Careers" course in high school. At age 17, I became a CNA and EMT. I worked as an EMT during my senior year in high school and got the OK to carry an EMS pager in school, and was able to leave any class to respond to the ambulance station for calls. The principal gave me a reserved parking spot in front of the school, and the EMS station was just two blocks away. I ended up getting a D- in Chemistry for the year because I missed so many classes while doing EMS work. I didn't care. I worked as an ER Tech from 1987 to 1993 at the local hospital. I enrolled in nursing school in 1991 and graduated with a BSN in just five semesters. I quickly transitioned from the ER Tech to the RN role quite easily. In 2000, I took a job as a LTC supervisor. From 2005 until retirement in 2015, I worked as a critical care 911 ambulance nurse.

I had a hair test come back positive for hydrocodone. I hadn't used any hydrocodone for the prior three years before then. Go figure.

I'm thinking about trying CBD oil for shoulder pain, but I'm worried that it'll show up in Lab Corp tests. Anyone know more than me?

I got two felony charges, but they were for elder abuse because I took some Tylenol #3's from elderlys' personal bottles. Had an interview with a local police officer. The DA determined the charges. I hired a lawyer, but knew what I wanted.... deferred prosecution. I was on a program for two years in which I could not have any run-ins with the law. If I was successful, the charges would be dismissed. That's exactly what happened.

Whenever I went to see my sister in Texas (I live in Wisconsin), I had to arrange for testing while there. First thing I did the first time there was to make a road trip to the test location (an hour drive in Austin!) so I knew where to go. I've never been tested during the four times I've visited my sister.

I work as a critical care nurse on a 911 ambulance. In addition to transfers, I also go on 911 emergency calls. We got called on the freeway for a Honda CRV versus a motorhome head-on with each vehicle doing about 50 mph at time of collision. I recognized the driver of the CRV as being a known chronic 10-personality schizophrenic local lady who was awake. She said she went out driving in an attempt to find something big to run into to kill herself. Her pelvis was crushed and lower extremities were smushed. Airbag sheltered her torso. We got her out of the car, quick splinted the legs, and into the back of the ambulance to resuscitate her. I volunteered to do the IV's because I know how to get a line on her. Her veins are normally ******, but she allows me to summon her Michael persona and, since he's bodybuilder, he can get her veins to stand out. I summoned Michael and he appeared in about 30 seconds. I explained I needed to start two IVs and that I needed her to get me some big veins. Within a couple seconds, the veins popped right up and I got two 16 gauges started. I looked to see my partners giving me the look like I was a voodoo doctor. Then I notice lady partsl bleeding. External exam showed porcelain fragments. When asked, the patient said she placed a teacup in her lady parts before going driving. The teacup broke in the crash and lacerated her lady parts. I chose to wait for the ER to address that problem further. She recovered, but, for some reason her schizophrenia is now under better control.

She just proved to herself that her five foot high stack of books were appropriately memorized in order to pass 125 questions that will determine her future until she dies. Yeah. I was there in December 1993... Best Christmas present ever. It took a couple months on the job before I came down to the land of the humble.

Soap is not meant to remain on the skin. It can create rashes and irritation. In extreme situations it may lead to a localized allergic reaction.

Self reporting is better than waiting for them to come to find you.

I was hospitalized in a psych unit for 6 weeks in 1980 at age 19 for what turned out to be depression, uncontrolled anxiety, and questionable psych illness. My MMPI was a mess. It showed a little bipolar, a little borderline personality disorder, and strong narcissism. The doctor put me on 23 meds, which made me into a zombie. My parents finally talked me into checking out of that place and going to outpatient treatment. Fast forward five years and my former psych doc was in prison and his clinic closed for ethics issues. My strong psych issues were gone or minimized with maturity and my depression and anxiety was under control. In 1991, I went to nursing school. I had a rotation on the psych unit where I was hospitalized. The head nurse kept looking at me and finally said, "You look familiar." I blew her off. Fast forward to 2006. New doctor and proper testing showed I had ADHD and Asperger's. The MMPI showed normality. My depression and anxiety reared up every now and then, but only when I got into certain situations. Now, I've been a nurse for 25 years and just retired from being a 911 EMS ambulance nurse. All the crap that others label you as is no one's business as long as you can do your nursing job just fine. Borderline personality disorder doesn't rule out nursing as your career choice. I've work on units with nurses with schizophrenia, bipolar, severe depression, and just about everything else. They were all fine nurses.

I would get a hair test ASAP. Repeat it in a month if the investigation is still ongoing.

After a couple of years, I wrote to the judge that sentenced me and asked that my record be expunged. He ran it by the district attorney and my attorney and they agreed. So, now my record is clean.

AA is not a religious program. It mentions "god" a lot, but that is a historical term used to indicate there is something greater to this world than one's self. Call it the Force, if you will. Some members of AA try to make it a religious program, but that is simply the way they interpret it. I know a lot of AA members who refuse to say prayers, but are all-in otherwise and do just fine. If you WANT to see it as a religious program, then you will talk yourself into believing it's a religious program. I'm not the most-religious person on this planet and take AA with a grain of salt and I've been sober for 18 years.

I will only eat food that is individually wrapped, like a sandwich, and only if the patient has been discharged and kitchen sent up a tray by mistake. I scarf that puppy down in an empty room in about 15 seconds. I never eat food after it's been in a patient room.... you never know if they touch it with Typhoid Mary fingers.

Whatever is cheapest, including commuting and living expenses. Public university degrees are easier to transfer overseas, if you ever need that to happen.