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One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Your Armpit, Your Urethra and Your Vagina
I've learned so much from this blog. Mainly that people are using the internet to educate themselves on topics about which they never would have asked their local librarian. (How was that for some stilted sentence construction?)After I posted about learning to put in a foley catheter...I...
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Published 3 weeks ago

I Got Bossified...or Bossed...!
Is it a little bit sad that I am really, really excited by this?
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Published 3 weeks ago

Stuff You Shouldn't do at the Hilton
So all that stuff in the picture in my last post? That was stuff that I bought at a 2 story CVS in Chicago with my pants stuffed full of toilet paper after I had awakened to discover that my period had started (with gusto) 4 days early -- and all over the formerly blindingly while 400 thread...
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Published 3 weeks ago

The Stuff I Bought on my Vacation

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Published 4 weeks ago

The Power of the Pussy Revisited
It just seemed, what with everything going on in the national arena this month, that this would be a good time to repost The Power of the Pussy.Kenny and I were watching The Daily Show last night and somebody got called a pussy during one of those fake "on location" segments. I can't remember...
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Published a month ago

I voted early and got harassed at the polls!
First of all, let me tell you: I am a middle aged white woman. This may come as a shock to some of my coworkers, but I am a registered democrat and a rabid Obama supporter. Which is just to say, that I think the harassment was just for the sheer pleasure of it and not racially or politically...
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Published a month ago

The Toe
Several weeks ago I was helping transfer a newly postpartum patient from L&D to the High Risk Pregnancy Unit. Despite it's name, The HRPU takes care of antepartum and complicated postpartum patients. They also accept "overflow" low risk postpartum patients when our regular postpartum unit fills...
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Published a month ago

Would you care for the intervention? Or the Quinoa?
Every once in a while, we will have a patient come in who is from another, poorer, country, has had limited or no prenatal care for the week or two or three that she has been in the states, and has NO family with her. I used to just sort of wonder and shake my head until I read this article....
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Published a month ago

Excuses and Advice
This is my first post in several months. I really have no excuse...The dog licked my keyboard, my internet access was limited, I was stuck in traffic for 5 months...Does it help that I've still been reading your blogs religiously? Oh well.We've had some crazy times at work that have inspired...
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Published a month ago


more cat pictures
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Published 6 months ago

Flush it!
I was helping S admit a patient. The patient's cousin was in the room.When was the last time you had a bowel movement? I asked the patient.This morning, she had one this morning, the cousin responded.Wow, your cousin sure knows a lot about you, I said.Well, the cousin told me, she forgot to...
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Published 7 months ago

Cheezburger Break
more cat pictures
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Published 7 months ago