i've had the same non-verbal, quad, brain aneurysm, trach, tube fed patient for the past two weeks. she has an incredible back-story and very complicated care so she'll be used for my panel case study presentation in nursing seminar in a few weeks.

despite the fact that i hadn't validated or even practiced the tracheotomy suctioning tecnique on a ( Read more... )

You Are Chardonnay
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 i just don't have that kind of hate and bitterness in me. please stop expecting that from me.

 she looked...restored. her blind, sunken eyes were refreshed. wrinkles forged in pain had dissappeared, the only ones that remained spoke of wisdom. her hair, once flattened and ashed, was curled and shimmering white.

it was as if the year of ultimate torture and affliction had been wiped away.

and on her pink lips the faintest smirk-even in death ( Read more... )

the wake will be from 2-9pm friday at sajewski funeral home located on 19111 warren avenue 5 or 6 blocks east of evergreen (it'll be on the right hand side if traveling east on warren). rosary is at 7pm ( Read more... )

last night at this time it had been 4 hours and 2 minutes since i knelt by my grandma and watched her take her final breathe.

last night at this time,  i was helping the hospice nurse bathe and change her cold, pale blue body in preparation for the funeral home directors.

after such dignified, peaceful moments cleansing her body one last time, i ( Read more... )

got my very first (and LAST) speeding ticket today for 5 over in a construction zone. so thats 180 buckaroos plus a bagillion points on the liscense. gotta go to court and beg for forgiveness.

i've never had to beg someone to take points away from me except what i will have to do in court. in school its usually "professor, i deserve half-credit for ( Read more... )

 nothing says welcome to nursing quite as poignantly as getting ninja-kicked across the room by a 95 year old alzheimers patient on my first direct-care hospital day

first day of clinicals at st. mary's- that was intense. they took me in as soon as i walked in the door at 6:45am to take my photo i.d. so i definately look like a druggie- its awesome. the computer patient charting system is really involved but thankfully the i.v. plum pump/ glucose push isn't as dificult to learn as i thought. my cardiovascular ( Read more... )

my family and i gathered around my grandma's unconscious body to pray last night. we didn't think that she would make it through the night (especially after the discovery of uterine cancer on top on the alzheimer reeking havack in her body) but she's holding on. i checked her blood pressure, her pulse, her axillary temperature, her urine output, ( Read more... )