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I think she is talking about doing that with her father. My SO is type 1 and i give him his insulin shots and meds daily. I am taking CNA training right now, but I am already comfortible with giving injections becuase I have been doing it for so long. It might not be something that I can do with my CNA training, but that doesn't mean that I can not do it for my SO and be comfortible with it. If that makes any sense lol.

I am not sure how SF works, but I know that all of the 2 and 4 years schools around where I live (MN) either require that you be a CNA or give you a lot of points or your admission for being one...

Hello everyone! I am just looking for some answers about the way Iwas treated at during my out paitent surgery yesterday. I am a pre-nursing student, so I am there are many procedures that I am unaware of. The pre-op and operation went very well, and all of the nurses and doctors were very nice and informative about what was happening. However the nurse that I had in recovery was not very nice or helpful. They intabated me during the surgery, and for some reason I could not speak above a whisper (I have had this type of surgery a couple months ago, and this was not the case then). The nurse that I had kept telling me in a rather irrated voice that I needed to speak louder if I needed something. After I was awake, and semi-comfortable, she helped me out of the bed into a chair that they move over to a small semi-private waiting room where my family could come sit with me while they decided when I would be discharged. While she was helping me out of bed, she put her hand with some pressure on my stomach, which was where my surgery was. When I started crying she said I was just fine, and increased the amount of pressure on my stomach. I am feeling alright today, and not like anything is wrong in that area, other then it hurts and needs to heal, like with the last surgery. My question is, Is this a normal thing? I had a laperscopy on my ovaries, but the last one that I had I did not have this happen. They were done at two different surgery centers. I am just concerned that this pressure could have potentially harmed me. Sorry about the lenght of this, I did not intend it to be so long!

The prof moderates them...but said that becuase she made a generalization "God makes people how he wants them" it seemed like she was using my comment to make her point. She said that I should talk to her...but I doubt that I would be able to do it without freaking out on her. And I am not going to to give her the satisfaction of knowing she upset me. Even though she did. It's just really frustrating...I can not even tell you the amount of times that people have said, oh its not really a big deal. You don't have it why is it your problem. Things like that. But it is. I deal with it, not as bad as he does, but it still effects me. I have to give him his shots every night becuase his legs are so shot from taking inslulin shots for 20 years that he can't do them...I am trying to get him to get a pump, but he feels like it would make him look and feel like a freaky sideshow.... Sorry that went waaaay off the topic lol. Thanks so much for your support guys...you have no idea how nice it feels to have someone in your corner.

So this is more of a vent then anything else. And I promise I am not trying to open the religion can of worms. I am taking an online, non-lab biology class through my school. Since we can not do dicussions in class, we have an online forum that we are required to post on. This weeks topic is genetics. One of the articles was about using technology to eventually be able to find defective genes that mutate and cause dieseases and cancer, and being able to fix them or get rid of them. I post this long dicussion about how I would use the screening, because my SO is a type 1 diabetic, and it also runs in my family. So then someone posts that diabetes isn't that big of a deal. WOAH. So, trying to clarify my point, I describe how he has gone blind, had to have part of the muscle in his leg removed becuase that is the only place he could give himself his shots, the constant, almost daily highs and lows, how he goes so low that he should have been in a diabetic coma and died. There is a lot more, but I don't feel like getting into it all. (he has really poor control of it, and almost always has). This girl responds with, well God makes people how he wants them, so he wants your SO to have to deal with this, and he must want him to die. WHAT????? Are you kidding me?? I told him that she was lucky it was an online class or I may have ended up spending my birthday in jail! :banghead::banghead:

The problem with verbal agreements is that there is no way to prove them unless you have recorded them. Often times it turns into he said/she said type of thing. The written doc. makes it a whole new ball game. But, be prepared to catch flack from the people that have to pick up the slack from the schedular not doing their job. Most people don't care WHY they have to do more work.

Darn. I really wanted to know how that turned out too

Coming from someone who has constant ovary problems and see my obgyn on pretty much a monthly basis...it is really not as bad as it is made out to seem. I usually bring my mom or SO with, mostly for my problems, not so much the yearly thing, but to be honest, as weird as it sounds, it helps me to have someone that I know cares about me there, even if it is just to hold my hand. My first appointment, my mom waited outside in the waiting room for the question portian, and then when my dr did the actual exam she came and and held my hand, and stayed up by my head. It was very comforting for me. Granted I was 16, but it was still nice.

Does anyone else suffer from the art form known as procrastination?? I am having a horrible time trying to get over this nasty little habit of mine lol. I get all my coursework done...but I wait until the last minute to do it. I don't go out all that often, but I still find things to do to put off doing my homework. I am REALLY behind in one of my online class...but in my defense, during Febuary BOTH of my parents had major surgeries due to cancer, one of my best friends was dignosed with brain cancer and we wre told due to the placement he would prolly die during the biospy-he didn't and is just fine, for the most part, my SO's father had a reoccurence of his bladder cancer (surgery next week) AND I got sick and am having surgery on Monday that will lay me up for a bit. The best part is that instead of doing homework I am writting about how I am not doing homework here :hdvwl: Anyway...any ideas on how to overcome this...I know at some point soon I am going to get into classes where I CANT do this...and I REALLY don't like doing it lol

This is why I hate insurence companies...I hope that she gets the surgery that she needs.

My school actually requires that you are a CNA and they recommend having a minimum of 6 months working in the field before applying to the program. Every school is different though

First I just want to say that not washing your hands often when you are dealing with paitents is DISGUSTING. It sounds like a walking, talking lawsuit to me. If people working in the food industry have to wash thier hands every five minutes, you are going to have to as well. Second, you are not going to ever find a job, in any field, where you enjoy every part of your job. You are going to have to deal with things that you don't want to, and you are going to have to do things that you don't want to. Third, the economic background of your paient has nothing to do with the type of care that they recieve. If they can not pay thier bill, it is the hospital/dr's issue, not yours. With all that being said, I think that for you, OR might be a semi-good fit. You can learn technology rather easily, and it does not seem like you are a people person, so this offers limited interaction with people other then the OR team. However, you are going to have to realize that no matter what area you go into, you will be working a lot, and very hard.

Jealousy is something that most relationships have. I agree with the other posters that professional help is most likely something that the two of you are going to want/need to explore. As someone who has had jealousy issues, and is dating someone who can have these same types of issues (what a match lol:icon_roll), we leave work and school AT work and school. It works well for me because I study better on my own then with other people. Also, being open does wonders. For a while, a girl that worked with my SO was making trying to get him to hang out with her, sliding in comments that were rather unappropriate for someone to make, and when he made it clear to her that he was happy with me, and definitly not intrested in her, she got ****** and tried to file a sexual harrassment suit on him. Becuase he had been open with me and told me everything that was going on ahead of time, there was a minamul freak out from me. Later on she dropped her suit...she had no one to back her up, and most of the employees said that HE had enough evidence to file on on her instead. Jealousy is a REALLY hard issue. My best friend is an extremly jealous person. She'll check her husbands email accounts, and freaks out over the littlest things. He gives her the account passwords and just lets her be her, becuase she has always been like this, and he loves her, even if she is crazy lol. His policy is that he has nothing to hide. Should he have to do this? Not at all, but he does because he loves her anyway. It all comes down to what YOU are willing to deal with.

I just want to double check because I am new, and not sure if I am right on this. Doesn't an ASN-BSN mean ASN TO BSN, which would imply that you already had your two year degree? Please correct me if I am wrong, that is just what it seems like to me.

She def. needs to speak to an acedemic couns. Some schools drop the first class grade entirely off your transcript, which is the case in my school. All it will say is that you took the class, but not give the grade. However, that means the the second class will count no matter what, so if she fails she is SOL. Thats how it works at my school anyway.