Motherless Day

In the days after my mother died so many of her friends, my friends, relatives and family I barely knew called me to say how sorry they were. Each time someone called I felt compelled to repeat the tedious details of my mother’s hospital ordeal, her brief recovery and speedy decline ultimately resulting in her [...]

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So, uh, um…

Foxtrot Unicorn Charlie Kilo!
This is my LAST week of school.
Today at clinical my patient told me he is a nudist. And he moaned when I washed his back and begged me to scratch it, scratch it harder. And yes, I have to pay someone for the pleasure of doing these things I do. I know [...]

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Oh Boobs, glorious boobs…

I know this Queen and her boobs are nice. And she is RIGHT. I will not be showing my boobs.

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A man sweater, and a sweaty one at that

So today at Clinical I had the singular pleasure of washing a giant, hairy, sweaty, un-modest, former nude model man from head to toe today. Sweaty scrotum, smelly armpits and very, very, very, very hairy. He had to have this contraption on his hand, called a Baer Hugger, to keep vasodiolation of his hand at [...]

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There is just all this stuff

Oppressive and ominous. Oceans of open grassland occupy my thoughts. No room to think because the space is all taken up by blades of grass blowin in the wind. Whistling waves roll across the water-like prairie. Cloudless sky curtains the course chalk-like jet streamers. I hear an echo and it boomerangs back to me conking [...]

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An unholy union

Watching TV and thinking about going up to bed to read I spy something in our fish tank. I look closely and see a TINY LITTLE BABY FISH.
OMGosh.
I only have a fish and a frog. What horror could be occurring when we go to bed at night and turn off their light. I shudder to [...]

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What I am doing instead of writing my paper…

The Spawn, Chica and I go for a walk around the neighborhood. One of our favorite neighbors is outside and we see her ancient cat, Bunny. She invites the kids to pet her and we get to chatting. She is lovely. She has two adorable dogs also. A pug and a black lab-by kind of [...]

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Filthy varmits

So children and I plant seeds. Tomatoes, Mesclun and Parsley. I plant a patch of lettuce stuffs in front of our big tree in the yard FOR THE RABBITS and squirrels. I plant our stuff in tubs.
The tubs are all dug up and rooted through and my tomato seeds are GONE and the parsley is [...]

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Thank, thank you very much

It occurs to me today when I am my most tired, most overwhelmed with school work this weekend that I am not singular in my efforts to become an RN.
SO, raising my magic mirror I see D, Debbi, Keith, Miss Melma, Ms. Troncoso, Ms. Hudson and my classmates that don’t treat me like an asshole [...]

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My mind is a blank bubble

Seriously, dude. It is filled with useless shit. Like arterial blood gas values, nutrional information and the ins and outs of catheritization (get it, ins and outs? yea, seriously, that is as good as it gets my friend).
I start my final lab work and will learn how to insert and remove a Foley Catheter. [...]

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