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Name: Kristin
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Birthday: 3/25/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: I love being a nurse, and helping people out. It's really hard though when bad things happen to great patients. My friends and family and my cats, Rocky and Jersey.
Expertise: IV's and catheters...well sorta. Being nice to crazy patients...
Occupation: Medical
Industry: Medical
Message: message me
AIM:  krisfish14
Member Since:
3/21/2005
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| So my cat freeked out and peed on me the other day...that was not cool.
She is scared when other people come over, my dad was coming over to
pick something up and when he came to the door she flipped out. I held
her so that my dad could see her and after her took her I noticed I was
a little wet....yeah definately smelled like cat pee.
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| So I've been thinking...I hope that if I live to be quite old...I am an
active old person. I started thinking about this recently because my 90
year old grandpa had a heart attack last week...don't worry he's doing
great. One of the reasons he'd doing so well is that is he very active.
For example every day he walks 2 miles! He had a very massive heart
attack and the doctors can't believe how well he's doing. The day after
he got released from the hospital, which was 3 days after his heart
attack, my dad went to his house and found my grandpa walking in his
back yard. He had to do this you see because if he walked off of his
property, his insurance company wouldn't pay for the visiting nurses to
come help him out. Then he went to his doctor a week after the
heart attack and asked the doctor if he really had a heartattack
because he felt fine. Just said that he got a little out of breath when
he did stuff now. My grandpa is amazing and I hope that I have received
his genes!!
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| I had a patient the other day who had been in the hospital for a few
weeks and was only 25 weeks (about 6 months) pregnant. Her water
broke when she was only 18 weeks (about 41/2 months) pregnant. This is
not a very good diagnosis because the baby doesn't have any fluid in
which to move in or to practice "breathing". The other sad thing about
this patient is that a year ago she lost a baby after he was three
months old. He was born at 9 months, but had a birth defect where the
intestines came up through a hole in his diapraghm and therefore
inhibited lung growth. This patient and her husband are absolutely
amazing people and amazing Christians. She had become a friend to me
while in the hospital and not just a patient. She said that the reason
her first son was down in the neonatal unit was so that while she was
in the hospital with this pregnancy she would have nurses who took care
of him come up and see her. She was so positive. She did absolutley
everything right in her pregnancy, and after coming into the hospital
did everything the doctors told her to do. Then she went into labor and
delivered the baby at 25 weeks...He died three days later because he
didn't have good lung tissue because there had been no fluid in utero.
Why do things like this have to happen to such great people?? I also
take care of patients who don't seem to care about their babies because
they don't do what the doctors tell them. The go smoke, the come into
the hospital stoned or drunk. These patients alsways seem to be the
ones that have good outcomes. I know all things happen for a reason and
that God has a plan for everything, but that sucks! There are teenage
girls out there who get pregnant over and over, who don't want the
babies. Then there are great couples who want kids so bad, but can't
seem to get pregnant, or when they do something bad happens. It just
doesn't seem fair. That is the really hard part about my job.
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