Woods runner. Veil wearing Roman #Catholic wife and mother. #INTJ Former NP. Ecc 2:4 #Monarchist #Feminismiscancer Footsoldier of the Patriarchy
Jan 14, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I'm going to relate a story, one of the most harrowing things I've witnessed as a nurse & it involves a bad case of child abuse/
Late 90's, I was still an OR nurse in a pediatric hospital.i was on night call & was paged in for an "infant Ortho case, I'm not sure just what's involved" was the reason. I got outta bed & came in like usual, checked in the my scrub & the anesthesia tech to get ready
Sep 15, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
My mother & I go around to about 10 rural cemeteries to tend relatives graves. Over the years I've learned a few things
Cemeteries mow the grass but don't trim around gravestones. There is always a huge build up of dried grass trimmings that needs clearing out around stones
Jun 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
When your spouse has cancer, you realize at some point the trajectory of life is gone
The plans you had, maybe not gone but definitely uncertain
May 9, 2020 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
The many things I do not miss about being a nurse practitioner
Seeing patients with multiple mental problems who are mistaking these for physical problems
Aug 24, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Gonna have a little rant about one of the common outcomes of obesity right now - fatty liver
Approximately 1/3 of the US who have imaging studies of the abdomen show the result of "fatty liver" which means your liver is full of fat, which means its not functioning correctly
Aug 5, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Words cannot express my admiration for my husband. He took the news of his cancer diagnosis like a man. He's referring to an invasive & painful bone cancer that is crushing his vertebrae as a "gift from God"
He earned the callouses on his knees from years of kneeling in prayer but this horrible cancer which may very well claim his life he calls a "gift"
