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I have always said ," Nursing is the biggest acting gig of my life some times" dealing with people and there demands can be very taxing I know , But I always , always tell my self , they are trying to have some sort of control , they are being proactive in there care.! You have to look at it in there perspective and really get to know the patient as hard as it may seem at times , they are in pain , are hungry or plain old tired , I know I am bear when my basic needs are not met right away. And I have noticed with the past decade of pharmaceutical commercials that people and families seem to think they know what the cure all is and dont want to listen to the real reason that drug wont work for them , So I will sit with them and really listen and tell them what the reasons are , I know we dont always have time to deal with these things and get to the bottom of why someone is difficult but believe me when I say "if they are pain free and comfortable , so am I "Itas true your day will be so much tolerable!

thank you I will! I just wasnt sure what they were capable of as its such a misdiagnosed disease.

a girl friend of mine was recently diagnosed after years of being treated with psoriasis ,as it seemed to be and would respond to only temporarily , any ways we have investigated and the prognosis seems very unclear to me as she was staged 3 and 4 on different parts of her body , and even 1 and 2 on others ... she is currently in east greenbush for treatment they said in about two weeks she should see a difference and there hasnt been. I am quite concerned for her health , the other option for her is to go to yale university , do they treat or use you for studies is my question ,I dont want her to be a guinea pig.!

I have had a bad back for years and back in "98" I had to have surgery to remove the ..."mothership of all hernia's " as my doctor had put it!! I worked in LTC and we were short one night and I hate to admit it but we all took short cuts and one night I was alone on a wing as a cna and I got behind the head of the patients bed and grabbed the lift sheet and hoisted a some 250 lb pt. up in bed by myself , I didn't really think I hurt myself till the next morning when I couldn't walk, I mean I leave work every night aching all over! So I had herniated the L5-S1 and by the time I had gotten an MRI , because of HMO's and they don't want to treat you until you try everything under the sun first , PT, chiro, heat , stim, mulitude of drugs, finally decided that surgery would be beneficial, so off i went for the surgery and after waiting so long for the MRI to find out what was wrong , because at first they only thought it sciatica nerve pain because I Am overweight, well the hernia had starved the two disc's above it and they are no good either , now 7 years later , the whole right side of my body has dropped and I have a herniated cervical disc c6 , and right foot pain , and a stenosed low back. but I work because if I didn't I think I would stiffen right up and not ever to move agian! I had let my compensation drop becasue they wanted a degree of disability and I wouldn't do that ,I mean I am young and have young children I need to work. now that I am getting older and feeling it more and more I wished I didn't but that was the choice I made , so I go to a chiro and she is good she has gotten a lil more motion in my low back , my spine actually moves when she manipulates it. she has given me some spinal remodeling exercises and I think i may not be so crippled after all! I hang my head of the edge of my bed every day for 15 minutes to help relign my neck I refuse to have the neck surgery to risky!!!!!!

I am 35 year old mother of three and worked full time and maintained the deans list all through school I just finished on june 30th , just have to send in the BLING BLING to await the news of the nclex exam...yikes ... but in the mean time I read , surf the internet ,watch all discovery health shows related to nursing , and you know what ....it is the coolest feeling to KNOW what they are talking about, I am so proud of myself I could burst some days but hey it is a long hard road and we all deserve to be PROUD of ourselves .congrats to all of you new nurses!