Geeze here it is 2006! My pages have been online now for nearly 10 years. Some of them are still in their original format as not to alter original thoughts/feelings that I had at the time.

So many things have happened. I moved to northeastern for a few years, worked at Muskogee Regional in the ER (where we got our butts kicked on a nightly basis!) since 10/2004 I moved back to Moore. . which has always been my home.

A couple of additional family members have passed. My mom died in 2003 as did my oldest sister. My father continues to live in the family home and the three siblings that remain help him with his needs when he allows it. I still work in ER which I have always loved the most in a local hospital here in the city.

My interests vary, actually who has time for 'a life'?? I work full-time as well as pull additional shifts with 2 different nursing agencies. The nursing shortage is affecting everyone. Unfortunately, our workload is greater with more patients and higher accuities to handle on each given shift. Many that have been in the field for a while are leaving for one reason or another and there just aren't enough replacements.

Here is a good friend, Steve (Yes girls, he is available!)

"The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide."~~Henri Nouwens

Just A Reminder. . . . .(yeah right)

How to KNOW You're Growing Older:

1. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work.
2. Your little black book contains only names ending in M.D.
3. You join a health club and don't go.
4. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions.
5. You turn out the light for economic reasons rather than romantic ones.
6. Your knees buckle and your belt won't.
7. You remember today that yesterday was your wedding anniversary.
8. Your back goes out more than you do.
9. You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.

You Know You're A Nurse When. . .

1. Your idea of a good time is a full code at change of shift
2. You find humor in other people's stupidity
3. You believe in aerial spraying of Prozac
4. Your idea of comforting a child is a papoose board
5. You believe that "shallow gene pool" is a diagnosis
6. Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you
7. You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce
8. You believe chocolate is a food group
9. You believe that unspeakable evil will befall you if anyone says, "Boy, it sure is quiet around here"
10. When out in public you compliment a stranger on their great veins
11. You referred to someone's death as "transfer to the eternal care unit"
12. You hate working nights with a full moon
13. You don't think that a referral to Dr. Kervorkian is inappropriate for many of your patients
14. You have wanted to hold a seminar entitled, "Suicide, How to get it right the first time"
15. You have to leave a patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrolably
16. You think that caffeine should be in IV form
17. You have ever restrained someone and it was not a sexual act
18. The most commonly uttered phrase after midnight is "what happened at 2 o'clock this morning that made this an emergency after six months"
19. You believe that "Too Stupid To Live" should be a diagnosis
20. When ordering labs, the doctor ordered "dumbshit profile"
21. When talking about vegetables, you are not talking about a food group
22. You have been exposed to so many Xrays that you say, "I don't need birth control" to your family doctor
23. Your patient states "I don't know how it got stuck up there"
24. You have weekends off, marked and planned for a year
25. You encourage obnoxious patients to sign out "AMA" so you don't have to take care of them

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