Stoney Heart

May52013

2PM

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1PM

A little Update

Im not sure how much i have said over the last couple of weeks, I have been pretty silent on here recently but i thought I might give you an update of where I am upto.

The job that I applied for on the coast I havnt heard back from at all so I have gotten to the point that i have put it out of my mind with the stamp of I didnt even get a look in and thats ok there must be something else out there for me.

which brings me to my next announcement. I have decided that I am going to try and get my nursing registration for the UK so i can go over at the end of the year and work. I am not sure whether this will be possible as there are a lot of things that have to happen first but I feel like i need an adventure and I have always wanted to go over there so why not work as well?

I know that its going to do my head in over the next couple of months wondering whether i have made the right decision whether I will be able to get my registration or whether I will be able to hack it. even whether i will like it but my theory is if its not meant to happen then there will be resistance along the way. like if i dont pass the english test that i have to do to even apply for registration. I will write more in a little while but I spose this was just to say SUPRISE!!! Im moving to the UK :P

1PM

statisticalprobabilityofanything:

hsgagency:

They need to invent a comfortable reading position

the joy!

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April232013

Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: Self-Reblog: Behind the Medic: Have you never heard of “cold medicine”?

cranquis:

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, Urgent Care patients:

If you’re complaining about a “horrible unbearable miserable worst-ever can’t-stand-it” cold symptom (cough, sore throat, ear ache, runny nose, stuffy nose, body aches, fever)…

…and when I ask you, …

This is soooooo true

8PM

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6PM

Chief Complaint of the Night

baffledinbrooklyn:

“Nearly fainted after being told bad news.”

Seriously?! You called an ambulance for this shit?!

4PM

mybodyismydiary:

Life’s tough dilemmas

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9AM

Advice From Older Women

Woman 1: Do you think he's "the one," Lauren?
Me: How am I to know that?
Woman 2: Do you want him to be "the one?"
Me: Of course I do. I'd be wasting our time if I didn't.
Woman 1: Just remember that if he's going to be the one, you have to consider more than how you currently feel.
Woman 2: Exactly. You have to consider what it will be like when marriage is less exciting after the initial newly-wed high.
Me: Okay, like what?
Woman 1: Even when you find yourself less attracted to him, at the end of the day, do you still think he is overall a good man--because that matters.
Woman 2: Yep. It's the simple things that you think are obvious. But they're not. They're important. For instance, is he a man of integrity? What do his friends think about him? Does he take care of you? Is he going to be faithful? You don't know everything--you can't, but what do you see him making patterns of in his behavior.
Woman 1: It's the basics that carry you through hard times, lonely weeks, and stale months. It's trusting each other to be steadfast. It's the basics that make you able to choose marriage on the days you wish you could walk away quietly.
Me: What made you stay when you wanted to leave the most--whenever that was?
Woman 2: Marriage is not the pursuit of happiness. It is a covenant that daily chooses to love through self-denial. And sometimes that's easier than other days. But you have to make that choice. That is one decision that will always pay off and not be regretted.
Woman 1: You must live covenant minded--not emotion driven, but God enabled.

7AM

“This too shall pass. Like a kidney stone.”

My classmate’s facebook status. It was too good not to share. (via mddiaries)

BAHAHA.

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5AM

The Not Quite Doctor: The Privilege

aspiringdoctors:

thenotquitedoctor:

“Doctor, did you see her prom pictures?”

The young woman in the office beamed as she turned her iPhone to show us a group of girls all wearing brightly colored dresses. ”It was a little skimpier than I would have liked, but she looked beautiful,” her mother continued.

Had you walked in at that moment you wouldn’t have realized that minutes earlier we were discussing advanced directives for the beaming 17-year-old who wore the bit too skimpy dress. Next week she is going to be evaluated for a clinical trial. But, as the doctor confided in me after we left the room, she is probably going to die from her cancer.

That is how the whole afternoon went in the oncology clinic. There was the middle-aged man who had a recurrence of his brain tumor. The 50-some-year old with renal cancer who decided she was done dealing with chemo and wanted to die comfortably. The man who had part of his frontal lobe resected and wanted to know when he could wrestle with his young boys again. Those are just a couple of examples.

I walked out of clinic feeling emotionally drained. I thought to myself, “is this what my life will be? Giving people bad news over and over again? Am I spending all these late nights studying so that some day I will have to be the person telling a 17-year-old she is going to die?”

I wrestled with that thought as I headed home and cooked dinner. Then I was reminded of something a great doctor once told me. ”All of the work you are doing is to earn the privilege of being a doctor.”

Privilege. That is a funny word to assign to a job. I continued to play his words in my mind…”As a doctor I have been the first person to touch a new life as it was coming into this world. I have also been the last person to touch someone as they left it. People entrust their lives to you. That is the privilege you are working for.”

As I mulled over my day and his advice I realized he was right. Seeing patients like that, struggling with their impending death, definitely tugged at my heart strings. But what an honor it was to be part of that. They trusted me enough to let me be part of that vulnerable and intimate point in their life. More than that, they put their faith in the fact that the doctor, and I, could somehow help them through it.

I struggle with this part of medicine. It is hard for me to sequester my emotions. But I think that doctor was right. We aren’t working towards just a job. We are working towards an entire lifestyle. I won’t have to be the one relinquishing terrible news to my patients. I will get to be that person. That won’t be my job. That will be my privilege.

Wow.

3AM

yatir:

This.

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