KaraLea LVN

Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! Ratings are at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispen...

My neices and nephews are Ariel (girl 16yr) Luke (boy 14 1/2yr) Clayton (boy 13yr) Zoe (girl 11yr) Wesley (boy 3yr) Madden (girl 11mo) All pretty much straight forward, except people get mixed up on Madden's name. Just tonight a waitress asked her ...

Just saw a little girl named Emaleigh

My mother tells the story of her grandfather who, while chopping down trees, dropped the axe on his foot. Nearly cut the big toe off completely, just hanging by a string. His son, who was with him, was all for "going ahead and cutting it off the re...

I've recently heard of...Liberty Jade (baby girl) and Liberty Lee (baby boy). I actually kind of like it for a girl, but for a boy?

I recently heard of a baby girl named "Liberty Jade"...called Libby.

I have a "white noise" machine which works for me. Also agree with the soft music/fan ideas.

I have a question, I have been dx with Polycystic Ovaries and other than giving me medicine for the symptoms the doc really hasn't done much. Does anyone know anything about this problem? Any help would be appreciated. I have the excess weight, ex...

Just the other day, we had a pt become unresponsive (still breathing and with a pulse though). We had been told two days straight in report that he was DNR, but when the RN checked the chart, she found that he was actually full code. Luckily, he wa...

They haven't even mentioned Nurse's Week here yet...

YES, I agree completely. I thought they allready were...

Good for you!!!!

I found some multivitamins at Walgreens with the Inistol in them. Have been taking them for three days now, I do feel more energetic than before...Will have to wait and see what else these "horse pills" do for me. (They sure are big)

Thanks, I will look the next time I am in any of these stores. I am running low on my multivitamin anyway and need to get some more soon.

What multivitamins have this as an ingredient?

Thanks for all the great information. I just today saw this tread again. I am still on the Paxil, didn't know about the possibility of wt gain with it though...I am also still taking Avandia and Diovan/HCTZ. I will write more later when I have mor...

How about the ER people start to move the patient from the stretcher to the bed, only to find that the patient is dead, luckily she was a DNR.

Sorry, just found your reply...I just happened to apply at the local State Psychiatric Hospital when they were hiring. I love it so far. Mostly I give medication and do treatments like in LTC or Med/Surg, but I also work with talking to the patient...

This isn't too weird, just thought I would throw it in here. My Brother and his wife just had a little girl...Madden Denice...their 2yr old boy is Wesley Donald.

I have seen this as a diagnosis in my old medical records from when I was a child. I asked my mother what it was all about and she told me that when I was a young child I had problems getting back up from a sitting position on the floor. She was wo...

I wonder if she was the one who was going to have to cover that shift that is now open?

My Father was Dx with Parkinson's about 5yrs ago and is doing pretty good so far except that he was just put on Sinemet which his doctor says is the last thing she can try. The other medications that he was on caused severe side effects such as seve...

I am a LVN at a State Psychiatric Hospital.

Um, OK...The next time I start having CP, I'll be sure to stop and take the time to make sure that the nearest hospital is covered...APPEAL, APPEAL, APPEAL.

Uh, what is a F Tag?????