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unfortunantly for me, they are not available in australia at all! what is levsin SL? i appreciate any ideas anyone would have to help control this! My sanity is wavering!

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I thunk thats hilarious I cared for my grandmother til she passed away at 94 years. Each time she soiled herself, it was the first time that had ever happened to her but she vividly remembered my soiling myself just earlier that morning or last night...

followup on my problem, if anyone was interested. 6 suppositories were sent to my doc and he gave them to me. They worked amazingly. The spasms reduced by about 60% to a tolerable pain level and the relief lasted about 5 hrs from onset. The doctor is...

when i hear stories like this...and we all know stranger things happen, I am always left with the feeling of wonder that so much goes 'right' patients are surprised and mortified when things go wrong, I am constantly amazed at how much goes smoothly....

thanks ChayaN hugs

chopstix, you have touched on my pet peeve....the prescribing of antibiotics because the patient demands it whether the condition responds to them or not. Here in Australia, the culture of meeting patients demands has increased remarkably over the pa...

when you are a patient, do you tell the attending doctors/nurses that you are a nurse? i dont for a variety of reasons *my proffession is rarely brought up, i would never lie about it. *my training was 20+ years ago and i stopped working in the hospi...

I, too, commend you for the kindness and skill you so lovingly gave Orian. I am sorry for your feelings of loss now. I didnt know that (the carrying of souls from darkness to light) but it is so fitting and your love honoured this bird, be proud. Te...

For baby's sticky eye (conjunctivitis) squirt breast milk into it. Sounds funny but when you think about it, a sterile proteinaceous fluid is about as good as it gets for cleaning it! ofcourse babys whole face gets covered when you squirt straight fr...

During this same time, my urethral spasms were driving me CRAZY with a catheter in place. I remember begging for it to be removed. I dont know how, but fully inflated, i pulled it out. This caused much snickering behind my door but it stopped when my...

I have a story... (you will get used to these..sorry) when i was first admitted in to High Dependancy with Isolation, i had the warmest, compitant nurse i have ever had the pleasure to be cared for by. Trying to be a model patient, When the sheets we...

or maybe it was just my poor spelling...aghhh!!! (apologies....i sit in here in the middle of the night, too tired to correct typos, too lazy to notice spelling mistakes.....but if poor spelling is an irritant around here, i will try harder)

God's child....did the ??? mean you dont understand my post or you are questioning me? I'll assume the prior... what i meant is, I do not volenteer the information however, if i am asked, i would never lie and say i am an accountant (for eg) my usual...

Fergus said "They all knew when I went in a few weeks ago because it's on my file from the doc. I always just said "But, I only work with babies!" i am the same...running a baby clinic for 15 years put me very out of touch with most of the medical wo...

thats exactly what i meant...he was thanking her physically. I dont remember the culture but it was a shock...never seen this before and never saw it again...perhaps it was a personal rather than a cultural thing. She didnt seem to mind. They seemed ...

thankyou for your post...its great to know someone enjoyed it...the story remains too funny and tragic at the same time for me...but i do enjoy telling it...opiphobia reigns in some people, i hope some day that will change. I would rather give 10 peo...

It was protocol in our hospital to leave the new parents alone for a while to enjoy their new baby and eachother before the "cleaning up" Imagine our surprise when less than 20 min after a vaginal delivery we found the new dad on the table "thanking"...

oh i forgot nauseated? a Tablespoon of sugar with.....grappa (you'd never have guessed, would you?)

coming from Itaian descent, my grandfather (Nonno) used grappa as a cure for everything got aching legs...rub some grappa on them a stye in your eye....look into the grappa bottle a cold...a shot of grappa will fix it (well, it never felt as bad afte...

I have read through this thread and like others, have felt humbled by the enlightened attitude of some of our finest...and recognised others. It is a thin line, and a difficult one to walk. Like others here, i never felt it was my call to judge, just...

oh no, my specialist is wonderful, thanks. He was the first to run urodynamics and confirm the condition exists, previous urologists denied it was possible, He is endo/gynae trained. He has exhausted himself trying to think 'outside the box' and find...

I have a question regarding B & O supositories, i hope its ok to ask for me, its not for a patient. I have an unusual functional condition...continuous urethral spasm, caused by, it is thought, amylase deposits (I have FMF) in the pelvis, particu...

This is so true! My X is an anaethesist and he used to drive along an expressway to work each day...at least once a week, he would come home with an injured animal for us to care for...often birds but sometimes a possum or kangaroo (or a joey he had ...