"The average age for girls to begin puberty is 11..."
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sexual-health/stages-of-puberty-what-happens-to-boys-and-girls/#:~:text=The average age for girls,take up to 4...
I sense you are a intelligent, reasonable person, NightNerd, and your decisions elicit respect.
I want to ask: What is motivating you to want to have children?
Especially since I also...
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I believe it was in this class that the instructor gave the scenario that people sometimes have children so that they will have someone to love them.
These people are soon...
One of the great things about being self-assured and comfortable with one's abilities is the fact that there's not a need for external validation, especially from non-involved entities who don't...
Internet communication can be done in other ways besides the symbols of the typed word. SilverBells has graciously given me permission to submit images to her threads,so I'd like to respond to both...
If an individual manifests negative behavior against which cannot be dealt with or resolved, two tried and true methods are Unsolicited Forgiveness and Loving Indifference.
When we forgive...
When a patient or staff member would pointlessly argue with me, I would relinquish and say:
"Okay. You are right and I am wrong. You are good and I am bad."
A delusion is defined as "a firm...
"Love is like jam. We can't spread even a little without getting some on ourselves." -Linus Van Pelt
Every emotionally inspired act stems from the two basic emotions of love or fear....
Your statement struck a note with me, NightNerd.
I'm pretty much of an antisocial recluse, but over the years I have made a few lasting relationships stemming from my nursing career, but they are...
"We teach best what we most need to learn." -Richard Bach
Which I sense is merely a portion of a program you work, Moon, for as I've said before, you are an individual of a higher...
"If you practise being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats." -Richard Bach, Illusions
"I guess...
Please allow me to reconstruct the events behind this cartoon, dated January 26, 2020:
I was receiving a lot of attention and recognition from the administration at Wrongway for "extraordinary"...
"In the time it took you to complain about the task", I have told Frantic Frances, "You could have completed the task!"
Or, as Rooty Payne, psych tech extraordinaire, has noted,
"Some people...
Davey Do replied to travellingnurse1's topic in General Nursing
We are, Merrie, Cosmic Cousins.
The Director of the Psych Side at Wrongway Regional Medical Center commissioned me to paint the doors inside of the unit to appear as a wall. Having had...
As a great supervisor once advised me, "When you go through that door, you're on!"
Thank you for sharing Sarcastic Susan stories with us, Cyn. Not only is your writing style incredibly...
ACT-SHOO-ALL-LEE, Merrie, I have a theory about the reason why some are better at communicating with those with those with moderate to severe symptoms of mental illness, like psychosis:
It's the...
Davey Do replied to travellingnurse1's topic in General Nursing
I wanted to throw this situation in just for consideration:
My medical nurse wife Belinda worked at Wrongway Regional Medical Center in med surg for well over a decade. Her floor was always short...
Okay- the little word bubble fish says we need to get back on topic.
So, here's a cartoon I did about a year ago that I never gave a caption.
Let's see what can be done with...
Life is like a algebraic expression.
The more variables we put into our lives, the fewer constants, the more confusing it becomes.
I never was very good at math.
So I didn't get married...
I mentioned in another thread where a Tech at Wrongway Regional Medical Center questioned how many nurses I had made cry.
I responded that I didn't make them cry.
They merely responded to my...