TheMagicCookie

Thank you. It's such a strange situation and definitely not something I've dealt with before! I've never had any sort of complaint or claim made against my ability to work.

I have had the police out to my residence twice...one for the initial contact he made with me by leaving a card under my windshield professing his love (he didn't know where my new home was) and again earlier this week when my front window coincidentally was broken, but nothing stolen. He has also been emailing a therapist I see in an attempt to get information from her. He has gone so far as to attack her professional integrity and is sending very cryptic and implicit emails regarding my safety and wellbeing.

I was notified that an anonymous claim has been filed against me stating that I am psychologically unable to perform my job. I am pretty sure I know who sent this false claim in as I am currently having issues with stalking by a former partner. My question being, does anyone have experience or knowledge in this area and what the process will be? If a Psych Eval is required, is the Board allowed access to my past records? Thank you, I am a nurse in KY.

Ok, back in October I had posted about a Chlostridia infection that I had contracted in my right arm. To refresh the story, I had 3 surgeries and was in the hospital for 10 days. I have a total of 4 scars, two about 3 inches long on the top of my hand, one about 12 inches long on the top of my forearm, and one of similar size on the underside of my forearm. I'm finally done with physical therapy and have regained 100% usage of my wrist and fingers(thankfully!!) My question is about the plastic surgery to fix the scars. I am not too self conscious about them, they are quite the discussion starter! I am curious as to how the procedure is done. What is the recovery time and how many procedures are generally needed? I was told by the surgeon that I could have them fixed now, but show season is just starting and I don't want to miss too much time. Thanks for any help! :)

Wow that doesn't sound like much fun at all, I'm glad she pulled through!

I show American Saddlebreds. I have been around them for about 6 years and have loved every minute of it, the energy the possess is so amazing. I have two geldings, The Magic Cookie(hense my user name) and The Wanted(he's new and I might change his name to something more interesting). I've shown Saddleseat equitation and show my older horse, The Magic Cookie in Country Pleasure. I am planning on showing The Wanted in Show pleasure. What kind of horse do you have?

There was discussion of putting me in the hyperbaric chamber, they decided against it since we seemed to be getting ahead of the infection and they would of had to transfer me to another hospital.

Well, she would have done a lot better, but she hurt herself in the trailer on the way down and she was off when she was trotting. She stood up really nice, but that's only 50% of the overall judging. It was a jackpot class and it paid money to the 5th place, she got 6th. I had fun anyways.

Thanks everyone, I still can't believe that's how I contracted it, just my luck:) . I also forgot to mention that they took cultures durng surgery but they were unable to grow anything on the samples. They thought it was because I had already been on antibiotics. My stitches come out on Tuesday so I'm quite anxious to start riding again.:)

I was recently hospitalized and had three surgeries on my arm because of an infection that was supposedly caused by Chlostridia. It was such a freak accident, I just wanted to see if you guys had ever heard of anything like this. I was attending a horse show in Michigan where I was showing a baby filly. I went to the fairgrounds on Saturday Oct. 11, and while I was going into the fillies stall, I barely poked myself on a smooth wire attached to the stall door. I thought absolutely nothing of it considering it didn't even draw blood and I continued to get the baby horse ready. I had no symptoms of an infection until I was home on Monday Oct. 12th. I woke up that morning and my arm was slightly swollen, but barely noticeable and I was having some shooting pains down my elbow throughout the day, there was also some weakness in the strength of my arm. I just figured I had slept on my arm funny or my arm was sore from showing the filly because they tend to jerk you around. By Monday night, the pain was still present but now the arm was puffy and very sore to the touch. My forearm was probably twice it's normal size and bright red. I then found an area around my elbow that was squishy and seemed to have subcutaneous air, it made a crackling noise much like styrofoam. I called my Dr. and made an appointment for the next morning to get my arm checked out. At the appointment, the Doc looked at it really quick and said it was just a case of Cellulitis and prescribed Augmentin. I got the prescription filled and then proceeded to vomit the antibiotics back up. I never ran a fever and I had taken the meds with food, so the Doc prescribes another medication. I go home that night and by bedtime, I no longer had a wrist or a hand, it had swelled and was in the same condition as my forearm. I decide to go to the ER in the morning and see if I could get IV antibiotics since the orals obviously had not improved the arm. It's now Wednesday the 15th and I go to the ER where I am placed in observation for 24 hrs on IV antibiotics. At 3:00 A.M, a resident comes in and says he would like to get some X-Rays, no problem. After reading the x-rays, the resident comes back to inform me that I will be going into emergency surgery. I get to surgery at about 5 A.M and am given all the talks about what would happen and so forth. After the operation, the surgeon tells me that I had Necrotic Fasciitis and if I had come to the hospital 12 hours later than I would have lost my arm from the shoulder down. To make this story a little shorter, I was in the hospital for 8 days and had another two surgeries after the first one. The surgeon believed that I would need a skin graft to close the incisions, but luckily it was not needed. I have an incision from my wrist to my elbow on the top and bottom of my arm and two incisions on my hand(over 200 stitches). The infectious disease Dr. said that the poke from the wire could have been the cause. I am happy to be out of the hospital, I got out on the 23rd. I am now going to physical therapy and am hoping to be back to normal soon. Three of my fingers work and I have half of the normal ability in my wrist and am very hopeful for a full recovery. My question to you is, have you ever heard of anything like this? and does the diagnosis of Chlostridia sound correct? This was such a freak accident, but it has not affected me much, I am still in high spirits and am calling myself the bride of Frankenstein. Thanks for reading all this, I tried to keep it as small as possible!

I had posted this in another thread, but I realized that it could be it's own and I might get a better understanding of who really has the passion to become a nurse. Please post your opinions, I am eager to see everyones views. How can you tell the difference between a fad and an actual passion for wanting to be a nurse? Ok, I'm a Junior in HS and I really want to be a nurse. I hate the thought of how long nursing school is, and I just wish that I could start my job as a nurse right now. I am a very responsible person and I truly love to help people out, I also like humor in my life. My only concern is that I will lose this passion for nursing, not that I'll get bored of it, but I'll realize it's not what I dreamed it would be. I know it's not always a glamorous job and that it's very stressful at times. When I hear about the pro's of nursing in threads such as a patient saying "thank you" or knowing that you've brightened their day, I think of myself being able to do that and how good it'll make me feel. The con's don't seem to be scaring me too much, I am definetly not afraid to get my hands dirty, I've worked with horses 5 years and have never minded getting dirty, it just means I did a good job. I guess what I'm trying to say is, did you have a passion like this before nursing school, and have you kept it? and Does my interest in nursing just seem like a fad to you, since I'm so anxious to get started but am unsure about the future? I've read many posts on this board, and it helps me to think that many, many other people have the same fear as I do and don't want to fail. Math and Science are definetly not my strong point, but I think I can work through that. One of my best friends is a nurse and she thinks I would make a good nurse, or a doctor(I'm not so sure about that!) but I think I'm lacking in the confidence department, is that a bad sign? I am currently involved in a medical explorers program and I love it, I can't wait until the next meeting. Thanks for reading my post and helping me out, I know everyone else has the same worries I do, I just concerned that it is a fad and that I won't cut it as a nurse

It is such a horrible thing, I am hoping they end soon and those affected will be able to recooperate and rebuild their lives. I sure hope it doesn't reach the San Diego zoo, it was mentioned that they may have to start evacuating the animals.