The Drugs I Need

This is a really funny spoof of drug company commercials. I love it. I sing it in the car. Go check it out - It's at JibJab.com, the same people who brought us "This Land" around election time.

The Drugs I Need

My Rant

When will the government decide that lack of healthcare for low and median income families is a moral, ethical, and life and death issue - such that the president would gladly wake up at 1am to sign a bill into law granting equal coverage to all?

So many people die because they don't have a primary care physician and don't get in to see a doctor until it's too late to fix whatever is wrong with them.

Just pisses me off that they're taking so much interest in a person who isn't going to get better, when people who work for Walmart aren't even given healthcare. Who's going to pay out of their low-income pocket for a colon cancer screening?

Nursing School Update

I'm so sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy with school and work. I'm also doing some work as a set medic with a few local indie films so I'll try to fill you in on all of that.

Work is going well, I really feel like part of a team now. The nurses quiz me all the time "How many more days?!" asking about when I'll be graduating (84 days 'til pinning!). They ask me where I want to work, and that's such a hard thing to answer. I'd really like to work in the ED again, but I also need to look for a day shift. I don't want my daughter to have to go to daycare after school - I should be there for her. We've been through a lot, and I've decided that if I've spent all this time going to school to help my family, I shouldn't hurt it at the same time. I've got to do whats best for her, and not my career, so I don't know where I'll end up, as long as it's a day shift.

Winter quarter is finally over, we completed our last final yesterday and now I've got a week and a half off. I did well on the final, and passed all of my classes with 93% or better. This quarter was our 'psych' quarter, and I did clinical rotation at a HUGE world-famous hospital in the area. Best place to be, in my opinion. Two other students and I were assigned to the inpatient psych unit A, where the more normal folks were. Sometimes they were so normal it was scary, and the only difference that was keeping them in the hospital was that they had tried to kill themselves. Yes, depressed, yes, schizoaffective, but no, not raving lunatics like I was expecting. I had thought it would be more like the movies present a psych ward - with people walking around muttering to themselves, claiming to be Jesus, or wearing tinfoil hats to protect them from the death rays of Venus.

Three of the other students went to B ward, where there were people who believed they were perfectly OK in running around naked and peeing on everything. The other students were jealous because we had a small karaoke machine on our ward and actually ran a karaoke night. It was pretty funny. Not many people wanted to sing, but I had fun with the ones who did.

On to new things - next quarter is mother/baby and peds. Not my favorite subject, but at least the LAST subject. Pinning is coming and folks are discussing ordering these pins from a school pin company. The cheapest one is about $35, and I just can't see paying that sort of money for a pin I'll probably never use. I used the same logic when it came to my high school ring and never bought one, and I certainly don't regret that. I'm not proud of what school I went to - I'm just happy to be out. My biggest reward will be a nice fat paycheck when I'm finally able to work full time again. And maybe an Escalade (used, of course) - hehehe. I found a pin on ebay that should work for me, and it's only $5. The staff will let us use whatever pin we like for pinning, and I think this will work just fine for me. It's the same size as the 'official looking' ones, but actually sort of neater in a way.



So thats about it right now. I've been hanging out on www.craigslist.org , for anyone who cares. You can usully find me in the Health and Healing forum.

Interactive Human Body

Charles' blog had a link to a test to find out if you've got a male or female brain, and I went there (I have a female brain, which works for me) and they've got a whole host of other "Interactive Human Body" stuff. If you're just starting out in pre-reqs for a nursing program, or if you're studying for a test and want a break, check it out. BBC has some really fun things on their website. The link I put up on the sidebar will take you to the main Human Body page, but there are a lot of other science quizzes on other topics too!