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[StuckinLA]

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What in the holy F are you all talking about with this 6 hour CPR class!? It wasn't that long ago I was an instructor, and I can tell you the class is like 30 seconds. Shake the person and shout: "Are you OK!?" Then since they're dead and obviously not OK, you pinch the nose, have some dumbass bystander blow into the mouth 'cause there's no way in sam-hell you should be anywhere near a dead person's mouth, and start punching them repeatedly in the sternum, kind of like you see on that wrestling show on Monday nights. Oh, and I think you're supposed to count while you punch them, but I forget why because they're dead and it therefore really doesn't make a difference. And that's it, simple as that, class dismissed.

Oh well, there was more I wanted to say tonight, but I lost it. Congrats again, Ne, and good night everyone!

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Thanks, guys. :blush: It's kind of a big deal in my little world. I'm very happy about accomplishing that goal. Now the question is whether or not I want to go. (Just kidding.)

Ifull, (love that acronym. :H) hopefully they will not find out about all of my former husbands in the garden. Other than that, I think I'm okay. So does my therapist. (:H)

I'm pretty up front about my moral failings anyway. I've come to embrace, and even enjoy, most of 'em. Not to mention the degenerate stuff.
And if I had 8 kids I'd be addicted to xanax plus some. just sayin' (gawd is she a sad, crazy person or what?)

The thing is not whether or not I was an alcoholic (had alcoholism? I have been struggling for a year to figure out how to say that...) The thing is, it's irrelevant to the job (school) at hand. But when my doc fills out the paperwork is she obliged (legally or morally/ethically) to fill it out with that info included. I would think so. Plus, it would not preclude me from getting into the program, or even becoming a nurse.
Whatever. I'm off to the doc-in-the-box this week. No need to make it a thing! Thanks, RedH, for the suggestion.
Hope it's a good day!

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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:l
Thanks, Reg. And bacatcha!

[playland]

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Hi Ne, i'd say, never mark "yes" to questions about mental illness or alcohol or drug abuse, just say "no", and perhaps get another physical exam and doc to fill out the paperwork. When we look at the issue and know that we are people quite capable of the school and job, it seems like, oh no big deal, but believe me the yes answers to those questions can cause a big headache in the healthcare field.

love, play

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Bruunhilde;1409275 wrote: ... disgusting Resussa Annie. ... I recall performance anxiety!
omg. I know. All about the disgusting dummy and the performance anxiety. Last CPR class I took I didn't bother to read the playbook and the instructor kept asking me (directly) questions. It was mortifying. I was like, "Just give us the dummy! I'll do whatever you want!"

playland;1409665 wrote: Hi Ne, i'd say, never mark "yes" to questions about mental illness or alcohol or drug abuse, just say "no", and perhaps get another physical exam and doc to fill out the paperwork. When we look at the issue and know that we are people quite capable of the school and job, it seems like, oh no big deal, but believe me the yes answers to those questions can cause a big headache in the healthcare field.

love, play
Thanks so much play. It was never, ever in question about whether or not I was going to have it become part of the official record. While I have no shame, I am no idiot. (Well, almost no shame, and sometimes I'm an idiot. But you get the point.) My primary doesn't actually know about any of the rehabs, and only knows about the AL because I wanted her to know about baclofen. But now it's official. At least with her. (I'm a big proponent of the move to standardized healthcare and all that jazz, but boy it will be a different world when we can't doctor-shop. I don't know what I'd do!)

redhead77;1409267 wrote:
Hopefully that CPR class won't really take 6 hours.

StuckinLA;1409342 wrote: What in the holy F are you all talking about with this 6 hour CPR class!? It wasn't that long ago I was an instructor,

Yep. Six friggin' hours. I know! Absurd. It's CPR for professionals. Not for silly firemen.

I'll tell you what. I am very, very nervous about entering any kind of a work-a-day world again. I haven't been beholden to anyone or anything in a year and a half, and I kid you not that I haven't spent 6 hours in any one spot outside of bed in that long.
These nursing classes better be stimulating or I am going to be completely miserable.

And what am I going to do if we have to work in groups? I don't do groups. I am still, when it comes right down to it, pretty uncomfortable in group-y social situations.

I was invited by a neighbor to a craft-y type party where the chicks get together and make holiday paper ornaments. It was today. I backed out. I am busy, and Ed's home, but still. It was the idea of sitting in a room with a bunch of strangers and being the center of attention that really made me cave. What's up with that? Am I Nervous Nellie all of a sudden??? (Don't get me wrong, the party both is and isn't right up my alley. But I should have gone. And they might be kind of fun. Uncharted territory! yipes!!)

Holy cow, peeps. My nervousness is a bit off the charts, isn't it?

Sorry to take over Stuck. Back to regularly scheduled programming, then.

[redhead77]

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Ne, I'm not sure if it's a legal issue or not if she didn't write your history on the physical form, but it sounds like it could be. It's good you're going elsewhere.

It's CPR for healthcare providers and I'm sure firemen and paramedics need to have it too. The class Stuck was teaching may have been the general CPR class. Also, after you do this one, you will have to recertify every 2 years and the recerts are shorter. And even when they tell you a class will be so many hours, it just depends on who's teaching it (as Stuck has shown us :H). It could go faster, but it will be a number of hours the first time, for sure.

Yup. It's normal to be nervous. Life is a changin'. But you've come so far, and done so much up until this point. I'm sure you'll make this look effortless too (I did say make it look effortless, it won't be. I know that. ). I have a hard time attending those kind of parties. I usually can't stand them, unless it's with people I know fairly well.

I have to recert in ACLS this week. I've done it a number of times now, but I still get a little performance anxiety when it's time.

Ok, Stuck. How are you doing? How was your weekend? I think you have a test coming up real soon, yes?

[StuckinLA]

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Yes yes, everyone. I was certified in healthcare provider CPR and certified as an instructor I think for healthcare as well. Last I did any of it they were moving toward just teaching with videos, so maybe it is longer than I remember. And the ACLS recerts were a lot of fun too... Just remember 15 and 2 for everything, right? Or was that 30 and 2? Oh F it, no one is really counting. You'll be fine Ne. And you too, RedH.

And yes, test tomorrow. I'll update everyone a bit more soon. Love and hugs to all.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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First of all, I knew (know) that you have to be a resuscitating super-hero to be a fireman. Also hot. And sexy. And manly. And rescue kittens out of trees.

We actually have a cat in a tree. Kid you not. It's apparently been there since yesterday, when the Goose treed it. pfffffffft. People and their effin' cats.

I would not know about this fact, because I am glued to a pile of flashcards and the computer. Even though it is SEVENTY FIVE DEGREES outside. (For those of you who use celsius, it is warm. Lovely. The last spring-like day of the year.)

Ed's playing hooky from work, and was playing with the dog and discovered the cat because the dog wasn't interested in playing.

And I, I am in my office and contemplating throwing it all away for an afternoon of play time. But I won't. Which is very lame.
I also had a very generous offer from my brother to fly out to San Fran this weekend, on his dime, to visit. But I won't. For the same reasons. Which is very, very, very lame.

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffft.

Hope you did well! How'd you do? When do you find out???
And RedH, what's up? Do I need to unearth your thread????

Back to the books. Damn it all to hell. :-(

[StuckinLA]

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Hey there what's up, peeps? Ne I know that you knew that I knew.... ad infinitum. Just teasing as always, love. So what happened? That's a really great question. I sat down in a room and opened an envelope that contained my question, then wrote for three hours. I went for one smoke break and chewed nicotine gum the rest of the time, and you shouldn't mix those two. I paced a little bit, and looked for something soft and spherical and spongy-like to toss around, but found nothing of the sort. So when all was said and done I'd produced an answer to something, at least, if not the question at hand, and it's done. The next step is the oral exam, where I'll answer questions about whatever the F I just wrote and the proposal for my dissertation, and that will happen after thanksgiving.

What else? I'm taking very little bac right now, and drinking daily. This is a long term problem, sure, but in the short term it's indescribably wonderful to climb into bed, and actually move around, without leg pain. I'll have to sort this whole thing out again soon, but just not yet. Though I'll be sure to get in as much shagging as possible now, before going bac up and thus possessing a knob of damaging proportions...

And in the last bit of news, the bartender is so darned cute I can barely stand it. The other night I was at the bar, and we were talking about a lot of actually fairly deep stuff, and she happened to be pouring some Jameson. Well, when I got my next drink, instead of the free 1/2 shot of tequila that comes with the beer she poured me a full Jameson shot. She winked and just said I'd been looking so longingly at the whiskey when she poured it. Well, I thought, I've also been looking damned longingly down into her cleavage for the last two years, too, yet I don't see her taking any pity on me in that regard... Still, it was a lovely gesture. Then she started bringing me food, and yesterday I walked in to a care package she'd left for me.

Ham and cheese pastry with powdered sugar? Yes please.

So that's it. That's my life. I'm writing for about an hour in the mornings, just for me, then having a bit of anxiety but that might be because I drink about eight cups of coffee and smoke at least five or six cigarettes, and then I do whatever else is going on that day. We'll see, kids, we'll see.

How the heck are ya', RedH? And where the deuce is everyone else? Taw, Windy!? I'm close to sending out search parties...

Love and hugs, peeps. :l

[Sticky]

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Hi Stuck & NE

Thought I'd post here since i come here so rarely and no-one responded when i last posted on my own thread.

I'm struggling with bac this week. Up to 150g since Tues last week. I take 3 x 10mg at brekkie and lunch & the rest in the evening 8.30 or 9.30 pm. Perhaps this is not helping? Can't bear the thought of being even more tired during the day than I already am. Each day since Sat has been more a struggle than any fun and I look forward to being able to lie down for 30 mins/1 hour after lunch. Often I fall asleep. Have to set an alarm sometimes. Mostly I have been sleeping OK, just a bit restless and I get sore/restless legs, cramps occasionally or sore shoulders. But I never wake up feeling well rested. On the nights I still drink a bottle of wine (twice a week) I feel like crap all the next day. Yesterday I felt quite depressed and shed a few tears a couple of times. Kept thinking I'd feel better today after a better sleep. But I've been awake since 3.30. i may have mentioned before, but i did a sleep course a few years ago and know what I shoud do - force myself to get up. It is just SOO much harder on bac. Also after 17 months on TSM i slept quite well during that time and didn't need to force myself to get up. Will just have to make more effort.

Also I have suffered constipation since I was 20 & lately it has been awful. I struggle to remember to take enough Benefiber for it to work.

We are in our busiest time of year workwise, i.e spring and everyone wanting their landscaping done before Christmas. Xmas time schools have 6-7 week hols (vacation) downunder and we & our staff usually have our longest break for the year. I find i am even more forgetful than my usual near menopausal self (!) & am getting pissed off about that and worried how i am going to cope with the silly season build up. Guess I could do what you've done, Stuck, but i really want to perservere with this. Would so love to get to a point of being able to moderate successfully without having to titrate up much further. No such luck so far.

Am quite down at the moment but hopefully will regain my optimism some time soon. It's good to see some other sane posters on here. if i were still on TSM I'd be welcoming them and responding to them, but just don't have the energy or time for any of that these days.

Take care everyone
Sticky

[StuckinLA]

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Hiya Sticky, sorry no one replied on your thread. Guess I missed your post. Not sure what to do about the tiredness, honestly. Naps really are the best thing I think, and maybe hang around 150 for a little bit to see if you settle in to it? Another thought, and Ne can jump in and correct me, is to maybe go down by 10 or so and then come back up to 150 in maybe a week. Sometimes the second time at a dose is easier. Drinking will certainly make the crap feeling, the tiredness, and the zoned-out thing worse. Glad to hear you're down to only twice a week! That's great, truly.

So I don't know that I'm really an example to follow right now, Sticky. I did get to a point where I was no longer compelled to drink AL. And then I went down a whole lot, and well once I got to a lower dose anyway I decided to see if bac is causing this leg pain that I've got, and I think it is connected. So not sure what I'm going to do. You mention sore/restless legs too, but I'm not sure if I have the same thing. For me it's like a horrible nerve pain and skin sensitivity where any kind of contact is painful, especially getting into bed at night, but even just putting on pants or moving at all is enough to really hurt. That's not common at all, and I haven't heard of anyone else mentioning quite the same thing as an SE. But I do know that it started when I started bac, and it's getting better now that I'm not taking very much bac. But it's also totally screwed with my switch/indifference/whatever you want to call it. Though, to be fair, I screwed with that first by wanting to keep drinking.

More soon, and all the very best! :l

[Bruunhilde]

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Hi Sticky, I was constipated my whole life until wine dug a hole in my stomach and keeps me from drinking myself to death by giving me instant dysentery.

Recipe for constipation is exercise, insoluable fiber with lots of water (I use a milk frother to blend it), black coffee, and the mother of all stuck shit solutions, MAGNESIUM. Most people are low in magnesium so this should be a great solution alone. Magnesium actually comes in a powder drink you can use as a magnesium supplement but many people can't take it because they get loose stools.

My recipe for diarrhea is iron pills, fiber with little water, anti-diarrheal pills, incidentally.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Yo! And good morning! Total digression alert! Sorry peeps.

I don't think there is a single one of us who have let it all hang out on here that hasn't had the experience of REALLY regretting something we've written. I deleted all of my own posts from my thread for the first month or so. I would have kept it up, but it got too tedious. Plus, I realized that it was those posts, in the beginning, that were really real. Especially the ones that led to a doctor telling me I needed to get to the emergency room, because, "A psychiatric emergency is still an emergency." :H

It's funny now. But it wasn't then. (He deleted almost all of his posts from back then, too. It's pretty sad, actually, because last I heard he was still drinking against his will. But I still can't help but wonder which one of us is...crazy. He pops up every now and then...And I'm sure he'll be back to see if any of us--the old timers--have lost our intelligence. Anyway. That's another story for a different time. And ftr, [in case he's still around] I'm smarter than I was, which doesn't make a damn bit o' difference! )

Here's another thing I did: I changed my username at least twice. Maybe more than that? Definitely more than that! That was waaaaaaay back in the beginning. I started as "researcher" or something. I jumped into the Newbie's Nest, where I was completely ignored. I figured it was my name...So I changed it. (It wasn't my name. :H again!)

On another occasion, under a different username, (I don't remember which one) I kept posting that I was going to quit on a certain date. And I never did. Again, people started to ignore me. And one person (who is still around!) told me that if I wasn't serious I shouldn't be here!

[...yep. I deleted a bunch of completely inane crap that used to be right here. You can thank me with donations toward my shoe fund. There are a pair of boots...Over the knee, supple brown suede, simply stunning. And they can be mine for the low, low price of $800 or something. In my next life??? Maybe? Please?]

...spinach. That's how I kept constipation at bay. The Popeye solution. And by spinach, I mean oodles and oodles and oodles of it. I still eat it at just about every meal. (It helps that it's basically tasteless--at least the baby spinach you can get here in the U.S. :H--I put it in smoothies. And cook it into lots of other things.)

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Boy, that was long. Even for me. And didn't really address your post, Sticky. Sorry. I suppose it was a...post waiting in the wings. Sometimes that happens.

You could go down a little bit, or up, and see if that helps. I incorporated naps into my day, when I could, however I could.

Drinking makes everything worse. I feel badly when I drink too much (which isn't much!) for at least a couple of days afterward. The last time I really over did it, I spent the next day in bed, and felt like shit for at least three. I have no idea if that's bac, or if it's just that alcohol is that poisonous and I used to just feel that way all the time.

Sorry for the tirade. Really. I'll edit it when I've got a minute. Now I'm LATE.

[ifulovelife2]

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This thread has turned to shit! Tee hee hee!

In the UK, cider is an alcoholic drink, the same strengths as beers. In the West Country it was traditionally made on all the farms and constituted part of the payment for agricultural workers. When it's farm made it's called scrumpy and it can be extremely powerful. You drink it in pints (proper UK pints, not pansy-arsed American 'pints') but it often has the strength of wine. You can still buy it from farms in some places. It's totally illegal and produced in the most unsanitary conditions imaginable. Traditionally, it is flavoured with a dead rat in the cask. So, if you have constipation the very best remedy is a pint of scrumpy. Try not to drink more than three pints of scrumpy or you may very well shit yourself inside out.

Actually, thinking about it, that may not be the best suggestion for remedying constipation, considering the nature of this forum. Ho hum!