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  1. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    dbmc replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    As a nurse and a chronic pain sufferer, this topic is very interesting to me. Ladies and Gentlemen, the way that we treat chronic pain patients is unforgiveable. I have been made to feel like a...

  2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    dbmc replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    If rose petals appearing from nowhere isn't creepy, I don't know what

  3. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    dbmc replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I hope the man in white comes to get

  4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    dbmc replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Now THAT"S

  5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    dbmc replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Okay, that's it. Now I'm

  6. Coaching my daughter in childbirth

    dbmc replied to mleern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I've never had a child, so obviously I will never help my child give birth. Oh, but how blessed you are! To have had a child and then help deliver her baby! What an awesome experience!...

  7. Becoming a nurse again?!

    dbmc posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I graduated from nursing school in 1992 with an Associates degree. I have been out of nursing since 1997 but am thinking about reentering nursing. I have kept my license current and active. What...

  8. Healthy women schedule C-sections to prevent vaginal stretching

    dbmc replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    And that is why I left

  9. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    dbmc replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    You're exactly right. It would be much better if a drug addict could tell the truth. However, there's such a stigma towards drug abuse that I don't see that happening anytime in the near future....

  10. Becoming a nurse again?!

    dbmc replied to dbmc's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank

  11. chronic pain patients: pain in the behind to care for

    dbmc replied to Tadpole's topic in General Nursing

    I read 10 pages of this thread and then couldn't resist adding my 2 cents worth. If I repeat what someone else has already posted, forgive me. I, too, am a chronic pain sufferer who hasn't worked as...

  12. Use of Inhaler

    dbmc replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    Preschool thru 6th. When they are really young, they can come to the office if they need assistance. 99 percent of the time the parents tell us that the child knows how to use it and when. The...

  13. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    dbmc replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    Templedoll, thanks for the kind

  14. Use of Inhaler

    dbmc replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    In my school, the kids are allowed to keep the inhalers with them at all

  15. bladder cancer and spasms

    dbmc replied to curiousauntie's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I remember years and years ago when I was a nurse's aide in a hospital, I had a patient with bladder CA. She had horrible bladder spasms. I remember caring for her and watching the agony that she...

  16. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    dbmc replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    If you are really in pain, you don't experience euphoria from pain

  17. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    dbmc replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    After a friend read my post, she pointed out some info that I should have included: I've been to one of the top neurosurgeons in the U.S. He says my condition is too severe for surgery. I've have 3...

  18. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    dbmc replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    I am 47 years old and have the following things wrong with my lower back: Spondylolisthesis, severe degenerative disc disease, 3 herniated discs, 1 torn disc, several Tarlov cysts, and spinal...