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I can't imagine three spinal fusions. God Bless you.

I am sorry for your injury. But happy that I saw there were other alternatives. In March I had spine surgery. Titanium screws rods and bone grafts. Just one. The L-5 and S-1 fused on their own. Horrendous pain and disability. Even now, I can vacuum but I then have to sit. The more I do, the more it will hurt later in the day and at bedtime. I was thinking there is no way I will be able to go back to Emergency Nursing. Just picking up my 10 lb cat and walking makes me short of breath and hurts. I hope you find another line of work that does not require any more lifting. And it's just not that, twisting, pushing, constantly bending over will all have a wear an tear on your back. I pray you never have to have surgery. My total abd. hysterectomy with a tummy tuck, and umbilical repair was a piece of cake compared to this. God Bless.

I have graduated from an LVN program. I have also graduated with my BSN. Each and every time, I had problems with the math in Pharmacology. To be honest, I have had problems with math since third grade! In University I was not making the 75 or better on the Pharmacology tests. I was called into my advisor's office. I thought, "Well, this is it. I'm making A's and B's in everything else, raising 4 kids on my own and working three 12 hour shifts on the weekend as a LPN, and the stupid math is going to fail me" I felt like crying. My advisor pulls out a paper from her file cabinet and says, "Here, sign this." "It says you have a math deficit and you are going to work harder." I almost fainted. "Really? I'm not being kicked out of the program?" She just chuckled and said, "No. We understand that some people can be great nurses but have problems in some areas." I was so very, very relieved!" Funny thing is, after that, they started handing out calculators for the tests. I made 90 and above after that. Thank you, thank you University of North Alabama for giving me the chance.

I've never had a flu shot. Never had the flu. Now that I'm in forced retirement from spinal surgery from 40 years of wear and tear from Nursing, I'm glad my watch is over. God Bless all of you.

Nurses are grossly underpaid. I have been a nurse for 41 years. A couple of years ago I put in for a position at a Level I Trauma ER. With my BSN and ALL the certificates required to work in the ER, and my CEN, they offered $23.50. I didn't mean to laugh out loud, but I did. I told them I was making $21.50 ten years ago, same state. Have the wages only gone up that much in ten years? "Well, you know we're real poor here." Nursing is a great career. It stays with you all you life. But hospitals put too much on us. I have not been back to work for three years. And since my lumbar spine, c-spine, right shoulder, both wrists and and both feet are destroyed from all the heavy lifting, walking, standing on concrete floor, repetitive motion, I'm not going back. And please, not one person tell me how proper body mechanics could of prevented it....because I did, and it doesn't. I've also been physically assaulted by and MD and patients. Yep, nurses are worth their weight in gold.

God Bless the child.

Might be one of the problems with society today. Everyone is entitled and every body has rights. I agree with the other posters. She could have taken her business elsewhere, or hired her own private duty nurses in what ever color she wished. She should have the right to do that.

I forgot there has been plenty of Christmas holidays moved. Both Grandfathers....German and Japanese campaign, Father died while in Army, Husband's barracks missed the scud in Riyadh, brother-in-law still a bit twitchy after Vietnam, lovely Navy man adopted me made it back safe from Viet Nam, son-in-law from Iraq too, not too happy about the broke back and nerve damage from my other son's stent in Korea. Yes we know all about moving holidays around.

Yes that is true. But when you have an employer that says no one can take off, vacation etc. From June 15 to January 3rd. Then, yes, you can celebrate Christmas the first of December or the middle of January. True. When you ask 7 months ahead of time to have a weekend off in July for your son's wedding and turned down, why yes, I'm sure he should consult with my employer when a better time to have his wedding besides prime time from which is June 15 to September 15. And the best thing of all is writing the e-mail, "Saying I'm outa here, Bye Bye" Let someone else have the chance and opportunity to work every weekend, every holiday, night shift, short staffed, no equipment, no vacations. I'm willing to step down and give someone else the job and let them have this wonderful opportunity of nursing.

Because I am permanent weekend worker, I have had to work the last 7 Christmas's, Boxing Day (Canadian thing), and New Years. I didn't mind so much at first. But now it's getting to me that because of the time and a half pay for those 3 days. I make LESS money than I would on just a regular paycheck. ALL the extra money and then some goes for taxes. Double punch in the gut....work every holiday and makes less money to boot! I also asked for it off last year so I could go south and see my grandchildren and children. Denied. Okay, I get it. But WHY this year give me December 24th (Saturday) off, when I didn't ask for it??? Tired, tired, of the whole thing. I really feel that Nurses are treated poorly. Only two more weekends left and I am going casual.

Try posting the website for the custom scrubs. If not allowed, could you send it to me privately?? I love a certain Grey's Anatomy top (the one with the diagonal slash). Every time I wear it people ask me at work if I have lost weight...:thankya: So therefore, I have the same style in 5 different colors!

Don't give in! When the economy went down the tubes, my oldest graduated with her BSN. Took her 18 MONTHS to land a job an hour away. My youngest just graduated in December and started looking end of February and was just hired where her sister got her job. Please don't give up. There are jobs out there. Right now, I'm working three. Emergency, a dental office and for a pharmaceutical company. As you can see they are all related (IV skills, ACLS) yet not related. Think outside the box. We are all rootin' for you!

Maybe this is why the "Occupy Wall Street" protesting is spreading? We, the people, are freaking tired of CEO's getting fired but receiving a million dollar severance package. While we see our son's and daughter's struggling to make little above minimum wage with no health care and support their children on what little they make. When I see the news accounts, one phrase comes to mind "POWER TO THE PEOPLE!" Can't remember if it's from the 60's or 70's, or both? :spbox: Lol....do I smell a revolution coming?

It's still mainly a female profession. Even though we are in the 21st century, females are still considered second class citizens, property, things to abuse, things to protect "the little woman" syndrome. Worse even more.......WE, being female, do not stick together. Do not support each other. What is done to one, is done to ALL of us! And future generations of Nurses. I have 5 more years left before I retire. I have two daughters now in the career. I hope it will be different for them. But, I don't think it will be. I kind of like the time when all of Iceland's females went on strike. Back in the 90's it was mentioned in a Tennessee hospital that Union talk was going on. The hosptial said they would close down before they would let a Union come in. I worked in the California Union, it was pretty good. I now work in the Ontario, Canada Union. It is pretty weak. My husband (a unionized firefighter) tells me all the time, "Your Union sucks, why don't they do something?"

I think in that little check list they should add "Losing your teeth". See, when you have nightmares about your job, ya just might be clenching your teeth. Which can either crack or obliterate the nerve. I'm on my second root canal for a perfect, healthy, never had a cavity tooth. I checked "Yes" to every one of those check points. My fantasy is sending my "I quit" notice with a photo attached of me burning my license. It always puts a smile on my face.