dustydog

nrse judy Would love to see your ghost site. Please pm link to me. Thanks so much!!

luvstoread I'm sending you a pm dustydog

Hi, I'm taking topamax for migraine prevention which does pretty well for me. I can get by with 100 mg a day which is good because any higher dosage makes me dumber than a box of rocks. I have experienced some very slight cognitive/memory impairment with it but it's been worth the trade off to have my life back after having 2-3 migraines a week. Have had increased thirst and less desire for food. (lost 10 lbs) Google topamax and you'll find lots of interesting comments by users especially "crazy meds" thread . Good luck

Sorry, not exactly a ghost story but a death story. I had seen death before in hospitals and nursing homes but somehow I just didn't really seem to grasp in spiritual terms what it all seemed to mean. I was bothered by the fact that this great mystifying event occured all around me but I was just too young and dumfounded to even comprehend even a little bit of what it all meant. In my mid twenties I took a private duty job where I was able, (for the first time) to really slow things down, and assist a dear lady patient during her transition to the next world. My patient had been comatose for a week and when I came on duty that afternoon I received report that all the signs were there that she would not be around much longer. I held her hand and read from the bible and talked to her that night and encouraged her to go on. Several hours went by and she finally awoke from the coma and looked directly in my eyes while she took her last breath. From my heart, I felt she was telling me she was on the other side and she was alright. There really aren't any words to express what I felt right at that moment. It felt like every cell in my body was transfixed by something that was so profoundly spiritual. Quite frankly, it turned my life around and got me started on a life of studying holistic and alternative healing. I think of her from time to time, because it was a defining moment in my lifes' path. P.S.The thought has crossed my mind that maybe she only looked at me in her last moments to tell me I had spinach between my teeth :chuckle

It is a well known fact that these monsters cannot be rehabed. I am with the rest of you. Every time I hear about these horrible events involving children I want to take the perpetrator and the judge who let him walk free (from previous incidents) and throw them both under the jail. If they must live somewhere, then let them live amongst the judges that allow them to roam free to slaughter our children and rob our spirit. These people are nothing more than melanoma. They need to be removed from a healthy society before they invade and do any more harm. Zero tolerance.

Timewood I admire your moxie and hope you will get some vindication. No doubt you'll be a great nurse and leader. Best of luck.

Yes, I believe all creatures have souls.

Alisha I am just insensed by this as well :angryfire . Fuzzy has it right - don't let them get away with this. You have come so far. Don't let these cretins keep you from your dream. We are in your corner!

I'm having (have had) the same problem. I took an online refresher course a few years ago, however, when it came to the hands-on skill portion of it I was unprepared for having hospitals turn me down flat for any preceptorship in updating skills. I had an active license, offered to work for free in return for some skills updating. I wasted my $500.00 as I had nowhere to get "hands on" and the person I took the course from did not offer any help on arranging assistance in this vital area. I agree, it's wierd that they don't have a refresher course at any of the community colleges close by when the hospitals are yelling for nurses. Also, it'd be great if institutions could give us an opportunity to update our skills in maybe a re-orienting/preceptorship type program. An intensive 6 weeks program could put alot of us back to work.

Sorry to hear about the vertigo problem. I had a case of it in November and it was very scarry. Could not walk, nor shake it for 36 hours. Antivert did not help. Some minor incidences since then. I was very careful not to move eyes/head too fast and used a shopping cart to hold on to if I went out to the store. Doing fine now. PCP did not do squat for me. I'm glad you're getting the work up you need. I should have pushed for ENT. Working on finding a different PCP because of his lazy attitude :angryfire Best of luck to you for swift healing.

Thank you mj, I appreciate and respect you posting your experience here so we can learn from it.

Thanks Renarian I live 1 hour south of St Clairsville (west of Wheeling). I'm an lpn, semi retired. I would love to meet up with all of you.

To all you migraine sufferers, I can really empathize. I've onlly had them for about ten years but when I get them, my life gets put on hold. I had to quit nursing school after the first quarter because I could not get them under control. They were coming 2 - 3 times a week. The Zomig worked most of the time but I felt that everything I did was in a slow motion and thinking was very fuzzy. I think I was getting rebound headaches. PCP put me on 25 mg of atenolol every day which has now cut them down to once every 12 days. Will try to tweek this a little more. This coupled with severe arthritis in the cervical region has really made me wonder if I can go back to school and attempt to finish. I'n not a quitter and the though of just giving up gets me down. I do not have a family to worry about like some of you out there. I feel so bad for all you that are struggling through the pain and side effects of medication to hang in there and do your jobs. I pray you (all of us) will find relief....

Well said imusbecrazy. Right on the mark.

Very strange to think that students will actually learn something when their fight or flight mechanism is engaged all the time. I've never seen anything like it before in all my years. Sort of reminds me of hazing incidents you hear about for college freshmens except it just doesn't seem to end. Most students I know think it is just part of something you have to endure. The first time it happened to me I was caught off guard. The second time I wrote the incident up and elevated it and demanded the unprofessional behavior stop. It did. Yes, they are adept at smelling fear. They are also quite good at sniffing out potential troublemakers that can make their lives equally and potentially more miserable. If there is a third time then I will go to the Dean and the Board of Trustees. I don't think that their dirty little secrets of abusing students want to get that far. For starters, practice in your mind for the next time (and it will be soon) that you will have to stand up for yourself. Look the instructor in the eye and tell them calmly that you have a greater capacity to learn things when not feeling harrassed and belittled. This may be very hard to do at first but you must know and believe that you have every right to be treated with dignity and respect.