Well, now doesn’t that make me feel better?!?

On the list of things we’re doing, appointments we are setting up for The Scientist is a pain tolerance test.
The day it was mentioned to me I was on massive information overload, but felt reasonably sure that the questions I did have I also had the textbooks and connections to find at least generic answers. [...]

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There is beauty in the storm

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The Empty Chair

excuse the too deep depth of field, the cluttered background, and the snow, please please let us all pretend the snow doesn’t exist.
This is our version of The Empty Chair this year.

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I Am ….

I am reading!
This milestone effectively ends the days of being able to ask if we should go get i-c-e-c-r-e-a-m ever again.

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Why are you nice all the time?

Occasionally someone will say something that I have a hard time letting go.
We have some new grad nurses orienting to the hospital, some of them I know from school. One of them asked me on Friday why I was so nice all the time and never yelled after I told my CNA [...]

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Life Marches On

If only there were a button to pause life occasionally, or aspects of life.
I haven’t been home for more than a few awake hours since Thursday (not Thursday the 23rd, the Thursday before that) but life has gone in the house. My house is such a disaster that I honestly don’t know even where [...]

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Hmmm, Interesting

I don’t know how many times I’ve told a patient “that’s interesting” not because I was hiding some big secret but because some things are just well, interesting. I try to not do it much because it doesn’t give the patient much information about your thought process. Honestly though, sometimes there isn’t much [...]

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Don’t let go! Don’t let go! Don’t let go!

Last summer The Informer was at the point on her bike that I was thinking of pulling off her training wheels when she ran over a patch of puncture weeds (aka goat heads) and had a permanently flat tire. We never got her tire fixed, and she hasn’t ridden all winter long.
Until yesterday.
I [...]

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Chasing Snowflakes

I remember being in elementary school standing in the middle of the playing field during a snowstorm chasing snowflakes, trying to catch one on my tongue. They were falling down all around me, yet no matter what I did I couldn’t get one to land on my tongue. I’d spot one still way [...]

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