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    Rules for dating my daughter

    the only problem I see with them is rule 8. movies with chainsaws may not be smart either. she may get so scared she needs to be
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    Boston Hospitals

    no problem. I love my hospital. well i guess "love" is a bit strong. but I am happy there, and I like it as much as you can like a
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    Muscle aches with the flu...

    I have never had the flu. I am glad to, it sounds
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    Policy on Peds Patients

    as I said in my last post, parents are not required to stay. The nurses like them to though. The last few times I have been hospitlaized my parents have not stayed. They usually come visit me once a...
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    Policy on Peds Patients

    after visiting hours are over 1 parent may stay...they need an ID badge specially designed to say they are approved to spend the night. not
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    I see it as, I take it one day at a time. Usually I am completely fine and normal, but those days I am not, I realize they are only temporary and will pass with
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    Having an upper GI done on Friday

    I am having an upper GI (i believe she said something like with renal follow through though I am not certian) on friday. I am a bit nervous. It is wierd for me to be nervous so I would like some good...
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    Having an upper GI done on Friday

    Yup this is what they did. uggg. the barium was nasty. I had trouble drinking as much as they wanted me to drink. I dont know what happeded with it. Dont know the resuts yet. uggg, the waiting game is...
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    Holding overnight (or even days at a time)

    I am not sure for certian, but from my experience it appears that they do not hold overnight at the hospital I am a patient. Once I was the last patient there. my nurse had to wait for me to leave for...
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    When to bring a patient into the OR...

    As a patient, I would much rather be kept in pre-op holding. At my hospital, the surgeon must get consent for the surgery (I am not sure if the resedent can but in my case it has always been the...
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    Crazy Tampon Commercial

    I bet it is that they want people to buy their products. they figure that if someone thinks that they are doing good if they buy this particular product that it will do good and they will feel good....
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    10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    I just remembered from a few years back after one of my surgeries I needed a cath insurted. I am and have always been very tickilish. I was laughing and trying to close my legs "Keep your legs open, I...
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    Flu after Immunization????

    I have always been taught that no vacine is 100%
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    Eye care on ED intubated patients

    in my case, unless you pull my bottom lid way up my right eye will not close. I have a prosthetic eye and my surgeon shortened my right upper lid so that it could be open, now it is always
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    I am better in that the pain is gone. No the tumors can come back because they can not remove all of it, esspecially because it goes up into 25% of my brain. I also have a few other tumors that have...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    I am not certian because i am not a nurse but I think that it absorbes some of the toxins and prevents them getting into your
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    My mom took me to the ER and they had me drink charcole. It was nasty. I was also pretty high. I felt like I had a halo on and I was seeing golfclubs in the
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    I have a genetic disorder (neurofibromatosis) that causes non-cancerous tumors to grow around nerves. There is one in the right orbital area. My eye became very painful Dec 06. We were planing this...
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    Admission with abd pain & N/V/D...

    Recently I have been having n/v. Some days I am completly fine so I will eat what ever I can get my hands on,other days I can not eat anything at all. Also so far all the diagnostics that have been...
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    Boston Hospitals

    I do not know about pay or anything like that but I am a patient at Childrens and the staff is happy there from what I have heard. I talk to alot of my nurses and stuff and they love working
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    I was at a post op appointment after I had my right eye removed january 2007. The tech who checks vision asked me did I have any light perception left in my right eye. I got a bit confused.
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Do not drink a whole bottle of cough syrup thinking that if a little is good then more will be better. also do not leave a bottle of cough syrup you are using to treat your 5 year old in their reach....
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    ER- HELP: Dumbest reason people go to ER

    I have gone to my doc...an been made to feel dumb for going. had a cough for like 3 weeks. school nurse made me
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    Having an upper GI done on Friday

    ya that is probably what she said and i just misrememered it. oops. thanks all for your well wishes. I know it is going to be ok so i do not know why i am
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    Sweet Dreams, Baby! Tell us about your strange dreams r/t nursing

    That is scary.