November 22, 2004

• “A giant anal wart can be a couple inches large and blocking the anal opening,” Jay says with her customary vigor. The bright side? “In 13 years I’ve only been pooped on twice, and that’s not bad.”
• too too very true: behold the beholder one person's incredibly obvious pain is another person's percieved opportunity to talk about how their life is hell because their boss wears strong perfume-- --and it's always the people with hardly any range of experience who have the lowest yuck/pain/tolerance threshhold-- --as if mop water exposure or gristle eating or x is the line demarcating civilization
• see, this is what happens when you preview: tying squid i can see your wart from here
• I am not surprised to see being a nurse listed as the 10th worst job. Little appreciation or recongition from some but not all other professions, but lots of prep work, then long hours, underpayment of wages, and continuing education to add to the stress. Not that I have a problem with continuing education, it is a necessity, but it is an added expense and sometimes a drain on a person's time. I am frustrated more days than not when on the job, why do I stay? I love nursing, bedside nursing, patient advocacy nursing, restorative nursing, teaching and learning.
• bratcat, I hope you stay with what you love, 'cause we need people like you.
• I second that Bratcat--nurses and teachers--two underpaid, under-valued professions.
• Crank: It's about time crackpots get the respect that they deserve.
• Television meteorologist?! Looks like a pretty good gig to me. Our local guy even has a dog that does the work with him. Lab animal vet was sad sad sad though.
• Path I am not going anywhere. I am a diehard Nurse. Dedicated to my patients, not the administration. I handle it all pretty well. Too stubborn to quit, although I thought about becoming an auto-mechanic, cause you can throw wrenches but not people. I need my patients as much as they need me, so a nurse I will stay. Bluehorse, you speak the truth about teachers also. My daughter chose to be a teacher, and it is her first year at teaching K-8. She is frustrated already. She is a lot like her mother, stubborn and dedicated, I think she will be ok.
• they're simply HUUUGE.
• a friend of mine is going through nursing school as well and i was looking for a posted site that use to have med school nursing stories because of it-- but from too much empiric knowledge behind and in front of the desk i have to say: without nurses to be the filter between doctors and "clients", there would be many more fisticuffs in the hospital, as any docotor not totally up his own warts would tell you-- also, i noticed due to recent er visits that the pecking order in hopsital from doc to hurse to tech, etc. is even more striated that i knew before--
• nurse not hurse though hearse applies/is funny and med school/nursing to preview or not to preview, that is the question whether 'tis nobler on the page to bear the slings and error of typo or--